To China  For a U.S. Cancer  Drug?
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BEIJING -- Every few days, Houston businessman Richard Weissenborn receives injections of a radical new cancer drug at a hospital here.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Celebrex, a painkiller prescribed to people with arthritis, is still selling well in Shanghai even though US experts recently found an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes for patients taking high dosages of the drug.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK  - When it comes to the price tag  for the newest biotechology drugs for cancer and other  hard-to-treat diseases, the sky is likely to remain the limit,  insurers, drugmakers and industry watchers say.
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The Chinese herb ginseng could give exhausted cancer patients a boost, research suggests.
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BEIJING -- Glenn Rice wants to turn China's dogs into global economic assets. Because animal rights groups make it difficult for drug companies to build or expand animal-testing laboratories in the United States, Europe, and India, Rice, chief executive of Bridge Pharmaceuticals Inc., is outsourcing the work to China, where scientists are cheap and plentiful and animal-rights activists are muffled ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the import of five species of fish and shrimp from China because they have been found to contain unsafe additives and drugs, some of which can cause cancer, the agency said today.
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Although the volume of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming into the country from foreign manufacturers in developing nations such as India and China has exploded in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration's budget for foreign inspections has not kept pace and will be lower in 20...
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. said on  Tuesday said it is seeking U.S. regulatory approval for a drug  to treat advanced prostate cancer that has spread through the  body.
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration is saying that commercial importation of some low-cost prescription drugs from Canada might be feasible, but the savings to consumers would be small, and the federal government would have to spend several hundred million
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India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major suppliers of low-cost drugs and drug ingredients to American consumers. Analysts say their products are becoming pervasive in the generic and over-the-counter marketplace.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. said on Tuesday said it is seeking U.S. regulatory approval for a drug to treat advanced prostate cancer that has spread through the body.
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THURSDAY, Feb 10 (HealthDay News) -- A compound derived from a rare South American plant shows promise as a treatment for breast cancer, according to a University of Virginia Health System study.
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A REPORTER called recently to ask me what consumers could do to protect themselves against potentially toxic products from China.
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The Shanghai-based manufacturer of a leukemia drug that was banned by China's drug watchdog after some patients reported leg pains and difficulty walking said Monday it was investigating the problem.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen
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Abbott Laboratories filed a New Drug Application with the Food and Drug Administration for its drug Xinlay (atrasentan) to be used as a treatment for metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer.