Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury
A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said ...
France: Drugmaker on trial, suspected in deaths
The makers of a diabetes and weight loss drug suspected in the deaths of hundreds of people went on trial Tuesday, facing charges they misled the ...
Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5B deal
Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty ...
India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine
The Indian government announced Tuesday the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the ...
Higher prices for MS drug help drug firm Merck
Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in ...
Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty
A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs ...
Hospital to probe East German medical trials
Berlin's renowned Charite hospital said Monday it plans to investigate allegations that patients in communist East Germany were used as unwitting ...
Victims: thalidomide sold in Spain post-withdrawal
Spanish victims of thalidomide on Wednesday published documents they claim prove a German drug company kept distributing the notorious drug in Spain ...
Sanofi earnings slashed in first quarter
French drug maker Sanofi said Thursday its net profit was slashed in the first quarter from a year earlier as falling sales and patent losses on key ...
Insulin gives Denmark's Novo Nordisk a Q1 boost
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S says first-quarter net profit rose 28 percent on strong sales of its diabetic drugs. The world's ...
China career boost can come with health risks
Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution led to several stays ...
AstraZeneca Q1 net profit plunges 31 percent
British drug maker AstraZeneca PLC, facing generic competition for some of its biggest products, says first-quarter profits fell 31 percent.
Bayer profits up 11.5 percent on new drugs
German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer AG said Thursday that its net profit rose 11.5 percent in the first quarter as new drugs, led by ...
Novartis posts profit gain thanks to new drugs
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reported a 6.7 percent increase in profit for the first quarter Wednesday, boosted by new products and ...
US device will screen for fake medicines overseas
U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available in Africa to help spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology ...
A week after Boston bombings, suspect hospitalized
Boston Marathon bombings supect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained hospitalized and unable to speak Monday with a gunshot wound to the throat, and the ...
UK alleges GSK paid off competitors to delay drugs
Britain's competition watchdog accused GlaxoSmithKline on Friday of paying off competitors to delay launches of their own versions of GSK's ...
US panel backs inhaler drug for lung disease
A panel of U.S. respiratory experts voted Wednesday in favor of approving an experimental inhaler drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance for ...
UCI: 4 new doping cases of black market drug
The International Cycling Union has announced four more cases of riders testing positive for a banned black market drug which is the subject of a ...
Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride
It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering ...
Russian rider tests positive for black market drug
Russian cyclist Valery Kaykov was suspended from competition and fired by his team Thursday after testing positive for a black market drug that the ...
Severe US flu season helped Roche's Q1 sales
Strong sales of new cancer drugs and a severe U.S. flu season helped lift first-quarter revenue at Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG by 6 percent.
Bitcoin hacker currency bursts into mainstream
With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new ...
SAfrica: Balloonist flies from old Mandela jail
A man has strapped himself to large balloons filled with helium and floated from the island where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner to the shores of ...
SAfrica: Balloonist to fly from old Mandela jail
The power of ideas nourished Nelson Mandela during his confinement on Robben Island, but even this visionary might not have imagined the surreal scene ...
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