Aetna to End Payment for a Drug in Colonoscopies
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Aetna is the latest insurer to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening.
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The government limits the use of Ketek, an antibiotic linked to severe liver problems. By the Associated Press.
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Amgen Inc.'s  multibillion-dollar anemia drug Aranesp is facing further safety concerns after a medical newsletter reported on Friday that a Danish study of the drug in head and neck cancer was halted due to adverse outcomes seen in patients taking part.
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Payment to resolve allegations pharmaceutical firm overcharged government for top drugs.
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Drug maker Wyeth  is expected  to announce as early as today that it has received final  judicial approval of an amended settlement for diet drugs it no  longer sells, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- The U.S. government announced Friday that it was halting the use of the painkiller Celebrex in a clinical trial on colorectal cancer patients after a study found an apparent increase in the risk of heart attack among those taking the drug.
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Sanofi-Aventis has withdrawn its   marketing application for its Multaq heart arrhythmia treatment   in the European Union, the world's third-largest drugmaker said   on Thursday.
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Inova Fairfax Hospital officials have offered to pay a team of 22 urologists a fee for every indigent patient they treat on call in its emergency department, satisfying some doctors and probably averting a showdown that threatened critical care.
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Merck & Co.  said on Thursday its $1.1 billion deal to buy Sirna Therapeutics Inc. cleared an antitrust hurdle and said the deal could close as early as the end of this month.
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The Bush administration announced plans Tuesday to cut Medicare payments to cancer doctors, saying taxpayers have been paying the physicians up to twice what they should for certain medications.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Requiring enrollees to get permission before filling prescriptions for proton pump inhibitor (PPI) anti-ulcer drugs enabled the Georgia Medicaid program to cut its prescription drug costs by &#36;20.6 million in a year, says a study in latest issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
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A Tulsa company that sold imported prescription drugs from Canada bowed to legal pressure from the Food and Drug Administration yesterday and agreed to permanently halt the practice.
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A new anti-obesity drug that works in the same way as Sanofi-Aventis's Acomplia has advanced in clinical trials, triggering a $25 million payment to Belgian drugs, chemicals and plastics maker Solvay.
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AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough must pay damages for overcharging on certain drugs.
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MONDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-HIV medication entravirine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for adults who have failed treatment with other antiretrovirals.
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The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced lung cancer. It&#39;s called Alimta. Patients receive ten minute infusions of the drug every three weeks on an outpatient basis.