Charges, Research Costs Hit MedImmune
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MedImmune Inc. MEDI.O said on  Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings fell as higher research  and development costs and one-time charges offset increased  sales of its respiratory drug.
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THE REGION Study: Uninsured pay highest drug prices
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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A big reason for the high cost of health insurance is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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Swiss drug giant Novartis SA said yesterday it is spending $4 million to fund scientists performing diabetes research at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Broad Institute, and will make the findings public for other scientists to use.
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MedImmune Inc. will provide an  additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray vaccine  to the U.S. market this year to help the country cope with a  shortage of flu shots, health officials said on Thursday.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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A new drug that can treat patients with multiple sclerosis has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration but the high cost of the medication has some people concerned.
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PATIENTS would pay less for prescription medicine in a surprise move by Labor leader Mark Latham. Labor is also proposing to double the maternity immunisation allowance to $427 as an extra incentive for parents to vaccinate their children.
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Legal and research expenses drag its bottom line down.
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Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy   are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790   billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,   according to a government study released on Friday.
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The continued dominance of Boston's healthcare industry, the region's largest employer, could be undermined by stagnant federal funding for biomedical research, combined with the city's chronically high cost of living and competition from other cities, according to a report by an industry group.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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Misaligned incentives are leading two potentially life-saving drugs for treating lymphoma to go underused.
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Greater numbers of seriously ill patients could get experimental medicines under proposed federal guidelines released yesterday that would allow drug companies to charge for the medicines.
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The cost of Medicaid continues to grow faster than any other portion of state spending, overtaking primary education for the first time and forcing reductions in welfare and other assistance, according to a report released Tuesday by the nation's governors and budget officers.