Biotechnology/Biologics

The improvements include stricter limits on financial conflicts of interest for committee members, ...

The biotechnology company reported a successful trial for an experimental osteoporosis drug that reduced the risk of bone fractures in post-menopausal women.

It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.

But it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective medical care...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is revising the way it communicates to drug companies when a marketing application cannot be approved as submitted.

...including adalimumab (Humira, Abbott), etanercept (Enbrel, Amgen/Wyeth), infliximab (Remicade, Centocor), and certolizumab pegol (Cimzia, UCB Inc.)—for data on all cases of cancer reported in children and young adults...

...investigating whether four drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other immune system diseases might increase the risk of cancer in children.

Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors,...

Less than a third of employers offer retiree health benefits, down from almost half in 1993, according to a survey