As the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant continues, some worry that radiation from the damaged reactors will reach U.S. shores. Dr. Edward Maher, president of the Health Physics Society, and an environmental sci…
Samsung Electronics is known for its smartphones, TVs and memory chips. Now it wants to tackle biopharmaceuticals, on Friday announcing a new joint venture to produce drugs to treat cancer and arthritis. Here’s why the move cou…
Pharmaceutical companies looking for fresh sources of profit are increasingly investing in a range of health care innovations that aren’t drugs at all, from smartphone apps and educational websites to social media platforms and…
Pfizer’s cancer drug Sutent and Novartis’s drug Afinitor have both been found to be effective against the rare form of pancreatic cancer that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was diagnosed with in 2004, according to two studies published i…
To get potentially lifesaving drugs to patients faster, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowed to approve some drugs — those that address unmet medical needs — based on fewer trials than usual. But it turns out that…