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Whitehead Institute scientists report that certain molecules present in high concentrations on the surfaces of many cancer cells could be… »   

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, India’s top drugmaker by sales, said it has launched Absorica, a drug used to treat recalcitrant acne,… »   

U.S. states should remain the primary regulators for compounding pharmacies, rather than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, despite a… »   

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc reported a net loss for the third quarter on Thursday with results hurt by fast-declining sales of… »   

Germany’s largest drugmaker Bayer said it agreed with Schiff Nutrition International to take over the U.S. vitamins and nutritional supplements… »   

Swiss drugmaker Novartis posted worse-than-expected third quarter sales on Thursday, dragged down by the loss of a U.S. patent on… »   

Executives at the Boston-area pharmacy whose steroid shots have been linked to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak have been sued… »   

Europe’s largest biotechnology company Actelion stuck to its guidance for mid single-digit core earnings growth in 2012 as the strong… »   

Parents worried about their toddlers have long turned to the WebMD website to check symptoms, but the popular site now… »   

Johnson & Johnson reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday, as prescription drug sales rebounded with the help of newer products… »   

A scientist who has spent his career at Duke University, Robert Lefkowitz, will share the 2012 Nobel Prize for… »   

GlaxoSmithKline, criticized in the past for keeping important information about its medicines to itself, is to lift the lid on… »   

GlaxoSmithKline and the non-profit biotech group Aeras are to assess an experimental tuberculosis vaccine in “proof of concept” tests in… »   

Many drugs work by “fixing” a particular biological pathway that’s gone awry in a disease. But sometimes drugs affect other… »   

Targacept Inc said it would cut its workforce to 43, or by about 38 percent, due to the failure of… »