Rx Depot Agrees to Stop Importing Medicines - FDA
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Rx Depot Inc. has agreed to stop  helping Americans import prescription drugs from Canada, the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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Costco Wholesale Corp. on Thursday said it has stopped filling prescriptions at $4 for a 30-day supply, citing the costs, but instead is offering 100 pills for $10.
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The Uruguayan government has decided to ban the sales of medicine containing rofecoxib, which is used against arthritis and severe pain, local media reported Saturday.
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The federal government is scaling back its efforts to intercept personal prescription orders mailed from Canada and other countries, a step that could make it easier for consumers to obtain cheaper drugs from abroad.
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Health officials said on Friday they had dropped plans to keep a public list of prescription drugs with emerging safety concerns, one of the measures proposed after Merck & Co.'s 2004 withdrawal of its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Today the Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for manufacturers to use tiny radio antennas on prescription drug shipments to track their products from the assembly line to the pharmacy.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. BMY.N on  Wednesday said it plans to divest its struggling U.S. and  Canadian consumer medicines, including its Excedrin painkiller,  in a move that would tighten its U.S. focus on sales of  more-profitable prescription drugs.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered 20 companies, including Novartis AG's Sandoz unit, to stop marketing a number of unapproved drugs used to fight headaches, the agency said on Thursday.
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Manufacturers of unapproved extended-release cough and cold drugs that contain an expectorant called guaifenesin have until Nov. 25 to stop shipping the medications, health officials said yesterday.
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NEW YORK -- At the request of the Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer Inc. ( PFE) agreed to limit its promotion of Celebrex, in the wake of a clinical trial that tied the painkiller to an increased rate of
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- A new joint program in Illinois and Wisconsin to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Europe is the latest challenge to the United States' ban on drug importation.
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Sanofi-Aventis said on Friday it was  withdrawing its application to sell obesity drug rimonabant --  its biggest new drug hope -- in the United States.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to "severely limit" the use of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia over safety concerns, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Congress is moving to stop separate Medicare reimbursement in order to end an incentive to overuse a drug frequently given to dialysis patients.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- With the arthritis drug Vioxx forced off pharmacy shelves due to potentially deadly side effects, FDA insiders are warning about other dangerous prescription drugs.
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The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers not to buy or use Actra-Rx or Yilishen because the supplements contain an ingredient that could lower blood pressure to unsafe levels.
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Manufacturers of unapproved extended-release cough and cold drugs that contain an expectorant called guaifenesin have until Nov. 25 to stop shipping the medicines, health officials said Friday.