The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday announced a recall of all products produced and distributed for sterile use by Specialty Compounding because of concerns about bacterial infections FULL STORY »
Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee sued a Kentucky-based pharmaceuticals services firm on Friday, accusing PharMerica Corp. of illegally dispensing addictive narcotics without proper oversight. FULL STORY »
India has partly revoked patents granted to Roche Holding AG for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, a spokesman for the drugmaker confirmed on Sunday. FULL STORY »
Congress should think about clarifying the Food and Drug Administration's authority to oversee drug compounding, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released on Wednesday. FULL STORY »
By Linda A. Johnson / Associated Press | July 30, 2013
Pfizer and the Justice Department say the drugmaker will pay almost $491 million to resolve an investigation into illegal marketing of the company's organ transplant drug Rapamune. FULL STORY »
While much attention was given to the decision to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate by one year, another ACA deadline quietly arrives this week. FULL STORY »
Pfizer, in what could be the prelude to spinning off its generic drug business, said it plans to separate its commercial operations into two units, mainly for patent-protected brands and a third for generics. FULL STORY »
The nation’s medical-device makers and drug companies will begin collecting this week what is expected to become a massive stockpile of data on their financial relationships with doctors, researchers and teaching hospitals. FULL STORY »
Mayo Clinic researchers asked physicians who should play the biggest role in addressing healthcare costs and to rate their enthusiasm for various ways to do it FULL STORY »
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