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BioVex , a Woburn, Mass.-based biotechnology company that raised $40 million in venture capital in March to develop a novel cancer-fighting treatment, plans to announce Tuesday that it has raised another $30 million, The Boston Globe reported.
A drug industry group on Monday urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adopt a universal safety symbol for Internet content containing FDA-approved information about a medicine or medical device.
With demand for the swine flu vaccine outpacing supply, the CDC says it's open to considering importing a generic flu drug from India. There's just one problem: The brand-name drug is still under U.S. patent. The company's chairman says he just wants to help.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a new treatment for patients with a rare form of cancer known as Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma.
The Food and Drug Administration needs three more months to review an application to a neuropathic pain drug being developed by XenoPort Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the companies said.
The next five years are expected to reflect a significant imbalance between new product introductions and patent losses.
(AP:ARLINGTON, Tenn.) Wright Medical Group Inc. said Monday it received marketing approval for its Conserve Plus hip resurfacing system. Conserve Plus was on the market in other countries but had not been approved in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration.
For 20 years, depression dogged Stan Dowery. "It always felt like there was a cloud over me," says Dowery, who lives in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. "I never felt that I would get better."
Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain some of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA).
St. Jude Medical Inc. (STJ), which makes heart-rhythm implants and other complex devices, has withdrawn its membership from the industry's main trade group in a disagreement over the group's approach to managing a government tax proposal.
Today Dr. Lawrence Deyton, who at 57 still goes by his childhood nickname of "Bopper," is the nation's first anti-smoking czar. He directs a new agency in the federal Food and Drug Administration — the Center for Tobacco Products — that is writing rules to govern the previously unregulated tobacco industry.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning pet owners not to use pig ears and beef hooves produced by Pet Carousel Inc. due to possible contamination.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again.
(AP:NEW YORK) Drug and medical device maker Covidien PLC said Monday it is changing the label on its imaging agent Optimark to show that the product could be dangerous to patients with severe kidney problems.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a crackdown on what he says are phony pills, gloves, inhalers, masks, shampoos and even air fresheners sold on the Internet as remedies for swine flu. The New York Democrat says scam artists are preying on the fear of the H1N1 virus and making the flu season worse. He says consumers who buy the items are less likely to get vaccinated and more likely to ...
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