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Seniors are using brand-name drug discount coupons even though their use is prohibited by Medicare, according to a survey from… »   

The practice of giving low-dose antibiotics to farm animals to promote weight gain will be phased out gradually under a… »   

Generic drugmaker Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health regulators approved its copycat version of ViroPharma Inc’s antibiotic Vancocin.

Separately, ViroPharma… »   

The federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) program helped corral a meningococcal outbreak in Oklahoma in 2010, state public health officials… »   

Drugmaker Roche Holding AG may be willing to up the ante in its attempt to buy Illumina Inc., a disease… »   

While a drug for septic arthritis would be good, a treatment to restore cartilage damaged by injury or osteoarthritis would… »   

A matrix metalloproteinase enzyme found in all vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants plays a prominent role in the joint destruction that… »   

Screening thousands of compounds against a cell line turned up the first drug that gets at the roots of cystic… »   

What is this vaccine?
Scientists at two Spanish hospitals have identified a vaccine they claim could one day dramatically… »   

Stamping out trade in counterfeit drugs like Roche’s Avastin is an uphill fight for regulators, whose task is complicated by… »