Bid to Stockpile Bioterror Drugs Stymied by Setbacks
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Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion effort to expand the nationÂs medical stockpile, has largely failed to deliver, critics say.
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Wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism.
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By Tampone, Kevin  CICERO - Cancer research is daunting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the massive number of substances that might be effective in future drugs.
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When a great launch of a good drug is not enough.
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The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, ...
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Biotech funds differ in their make-up, performance, and promise.
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Some public health experts watching the aftermath of the tsunami disaster fear the outpouring of emergency relief supplies and the rush to head off outbreaks of disease will prove misguided or wasteful in some respects.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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NEW YORK - The pharmaceutical industry has endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration were expected to take a more cautious approach
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First it was Illinois, now New York City is also attempting to get large orders of flu vaccines from Europe. Whether or not these foreign supplies will get FDA clearance is still unclear.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers.
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The flu season is not here yet, but the shortage has prompted an uncertain triage of prevention.
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The biotech company announces new drug delays.
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Investors are discouraged after it releases the latest data for its top drug.
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(AGI) - London, Nov. 27 - There is a chronic shortage of investments in human resources in the health sector around the world. This impedes forceful fighting of illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
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The pharma gives us its quest for bidders.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- States are slowly getting better prepared to handle bioterrorism, but most still don&#39;t have statewide response plans and federal funding is declining, according to a new report.