Federal govt. becoming subsidiary of drug companies
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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If Biogen Idec Inc. is sold to a pharmaceuticals giant, as many biotech industry observers expect, it could spell the loss of yet another major corporate headquarters in Massachusetts, a blow to the state's prestige.
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By Sabine Vollmer, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 7--It took five years, but Cardinal Health has received regulatory approval to start making drugs at its North Raleigh plant.
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Government regulators now look to approve as quickly as possible medicines whose benefits exceed their risks.
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Massachusetts is about to lose another corporate headquarters -- but not many jobs. In a $1.5 billion deal made public yesterday, Wakefield's PolyMedica Corp. , a mail-order company that sells drugs and supplies to diabetes patients, agreed to sell itself to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the country's biggest manager of drug benefits.
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With yet more already-marketed medicines raising the ire of consumer advocates and regulators alike, momentum is building for reform of the governmentâs drug approval and monitoring procedures.
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Drug companies and other multinational corporations are once again resorting to complex strategies, many of them legal, to shelter profits in international tax havens.
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The Food and Drug Administration told Merck &amp; Co. that it would approve the company&#39;s successor drug to the now defunct pain reliever Vioxx if it provides further safety and
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It would seem a drug executive&#39;s dream come true. On Oct. 21, the secretary of health and human services in the United States summoned top executives of MedImmune to his office in Washington to seek their
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It would seem a drug executive&#39;s dream come true. A week ago Thursday, the secretary of health and human services summoned the top officials of MedImmune to his office in Washington to ask
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The drug maker is poised to speed past its rivals.
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The state of Illinois is about to become a federal lawbreaker - and proud of it. Last week, it announced that in September it will help residents buy medicine from pre-screened pharmacies in Canada and Europe.
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The government is set to announce plans to ease the rules on the opening of new pharmacies.
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The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.
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The small pharmaceutical firm signs another big deal.
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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.
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They operate in different parts of the government, but both have decided to go digital and phase out their signature paper products.