Women have mixed success at drug companies: study
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Top women executives do slightly better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies do not have a single female director, according to a new survey.
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PHILADELPHIA - Results of a controversial study suggest that women who use oral contraceptives have lower risks of heart disease and stroke.
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NEW YORK  - Fewer than one third of women 40 to 60 years old have heard about the landmark study that found the risks of hormone therapy for most menopausal women probably outweigh their benefits.
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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Biotechnology companies are betting that pairing old drugs can be a better business than inventing new ones from scratch.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom. With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer treatment trials that are funded by drug companies are more likely to show positive results than studies sponsored by other sources, new research suggests.
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The findings of a new study  confirm that lung cancer among nonsmokers is more common in  women than in men.
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Women who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome may respond to pain signals differently from other women, a new study suggests.
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Platforms have the potential to develop multiple drugs for a company.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study. What's more, many of those with conflicts rarely or never disclose their financial ties, researchers found.
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Breastfeeding women and their babies may hold the secret to developing a drug that could increase female sex drive. American researchers at the University of Chicago in Illinois have found that
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Why changes in the workplace may give females an evolutionary advantage
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Consumer Reports' effort to rate drugs offers a lesson to pharmaceutical companies.
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Despite evidence that women are as prone to heart attacks as men, new studies released today show that many doctors fail to treat them as aggressively.
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Male scientists are good at research because they have higher-than-average levels of the female hormone oestrogen which aids analytical skills, a study on Bath University academics today revealed.