Biotechnology/Biologics US-Congressional

Democrats moved swiftly on Friday to assail Republican senators for voting against a major Medicare bill and said the Republicans should be held responsible for a 10 percent cut...

but they have carved out exemptions for a few institutions represented by influential senators and well-connected lobbyists.

The National Institutes of Health is seeking those patients — and ones who qualify could get some free care at the government's top research hospital as scientists study why they're sick.

...wouldn't also have to worry about losing their jobs or their health insurance under anti-discrimination legislation the Senate passed Thursday.

Employers and patients in corporate health plans are not the only ones affected by the soaring prices of specialty drugs. Enrollees in Medicare drug plans are also feeling the pressure.

... the House on Wednesday passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses...

Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.

Businesses, individuals wrestle with implications of universal insurance

The Acomplia story isn't ending. It's just beginning.