Us pharmaceutical companies target consumers direct - US drug companies have decided to take their wares directly to the people. ...

That's nice: well it is for the pharmaceutical companies, at any rate - NICE isn t supposed to be not to pharmaceutical companies at least NICE which stands for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the t...

Drug Payouts: Pharma giant caught paying doctors - Drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (annual sales: $17.9bn) is “proud of its commitment to conduct business with the highest standards of integrity in its...

Children are the new target for drugs - Children may soon be targeted by prescription drugs designed specifically for them—and, for once, the move hasn’t come directly from the pharmaceutica...

Paroxetine - Paroxetine (marketed in the UK as Seroxat and in the US as Paxil) is an antidepressant that has been blamed for causing chronic hepatitis. The drug, m...

Germany makes iodine mandatory - In Germany, iodine is added to all food, mostly without declaration, but for those with certain illnesses, iodine should not be taken.

Drug to combat the flu is too hard to take - Relenza (zanamivir), Glaxo Wellcome's much maligned antiflu drug, has received another knock in the medical press. This time, studies show that the pr...

Safer use of antipsychotic drugs - Make sure that your symptoms have not been caused by other drugs. The Health Research Group, America's drugs watchdog, says that anyone of any age...