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U.S. government labs will start moving to non-animal methods such as cells and computer models to test chemicals, drugs and… »   

U.S. regulators have never inspected the Chinese plant that makes Baxter International’s heparin, regulators disclosed a day after Baxter halted… »   

Patients with fibromyalgia treated with a synthetic form of marijuana, nabilone, showed significant reductions in pain and anxiety in a… »   

A drug used to treat impotence could help Israeli fighter pilots operate at high altitude, the Israeli military’s official magazine… »   

Schering-Plough’s Asmanex Twisthaler, an inhaled steroid designed to prevent asthma attacks, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug… »   

New research finds that the first three months after heart patients stop taking the clot-preventing drug Plavix are the… »   

Excessive sedation is a “serious safety concern” with an experimental, long-acting form of Eli Lilly and Co’s blockbuster Zyprexa schizophrenia… »   

Doctors in England are writing over a million obesity drug prescriptions a year, eight times more than in 1999, health… »   

Weeks before a damaging report on the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) was to appear in The New England Journal of… »   

A new study published in the February 2008 print edition of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) describes a scientific advance… »