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British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will pay $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs, including… »   

Teens should get a booster dose of the vaccine for bacterial meningitis because a single shot doesn’t work as long… »   

A new double-strain polio vaccine is more effective than triple and single vaccines and will be a potent weapon in… »   

Switzerland’s innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime… »   

A popular cancer drug could be produced cheaply and sustainably using stem cells derived from trees, a study suggests.

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GlaxoSmithKline has cut the price of its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix by 30 percent in Canada in a bid to… »   

Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of… »   

Doctors tend to prescribe drugs that pharmaceutical companies promote to them and patients end up paying more but not always… »   

More than 17,000 doctors and other healthcare providers have taken money from seven major drug companies to talk to other… »   

A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the… »   

An American charity is offering to pay British drug or alcohol addicts 200 pounds ($320) to be sterilised - and… »   

A new study hints that higher Medicaid reimbursement rates could help get more poor kids vaccinated against the flu.

Although… »   

A mobile outreach program staffed by current and former sex workers is associated with increased entry to detoxification and residential… »   

Abbott Laboratories’ has pulled its controversial diet drug, Meridia, off the U.S. market after regulators said it was too dangerous,… »   

Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said the average annual cost of its oral multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya will be $48,000 in… »