Author: Katrina Megget

The UK’s health watchdog has announced a new proposal that will see some life-extending drugs being made available to patients, when in the past they would not have been.

While traditionally the pharmaceutical industry has been worried when a Democrat is in the White House, Barack Obama’s victory is unlikely to cause much concern.

The USA’s pharmaceutical representative body has defended the Food and Drug Administration and drug giant Wyeth as the Wyeth vs Levine lawsuit is heard in the US Supreme Court.

Drug giant Pfizer has reached an $894 million agreement to resolve almost all of the lawsuits regarding its pain drugs Bextra (valdecoxib) and Celebrex (celecoxib).

The Swedish Medical Products Agency is launching a nationwide television campaign to inform Swedish citizens that more than 60% of prescription drugs sold on the internet are fake or substandard.