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An experimental sedative from Japan’s Eisai Co Ltd appears effective based on a preliminary evaluation of data, U.S. drug reviewers… »   

The results of a new study suggest that the combination of alcohol and an extended-release formulation of morphine does not… »   

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his… »   

Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has resumed settlement talks with Pfizer Inc over a 1996 drug test that Nigeria says… »   

The U.S. Medicare insurance program for the elderly on Monday proposed cutting reimbursement for hospice facility wages, which would hurt… »   

Up to 70 percent of British schoolgirls are likely to take up the offer of a vaccine to protect them… »   

A U.S. commerce official said on Friday that China did not have the ability or will to regulate its economy… »   

A new pharmacy robot at Loyola University Hospital is designed to eliminate the type of life-threatening human medication errors… »   

A former vice president of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co was indicted for lying to the federal government about a patent deal… »   

The laser eye surgery industry is steeling itself ahead of a Friday meeting expected to draw complaints from patients with… »   

An online advertisement with men praising Viagra to the tune of an Elvis Presley song has drawn objections from U.S.… »   

U.S. authorities increased inspections of foreign drug plants last year but still checked only a fraction of sites that supply… »   

Switzerland’s Novartis AG is cutting prices for its malaria drug Coartem by a fifth to improve access to treatment, especially… »   

Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity… »   

Inhaled insulin may be a debacle that pharmaceutical companies want to put behind them as quickly as possible, but many… »