Health care providers have been reporting unprecedented shortages of prescription drugs, including vital medications such as chemotherapies and antibiotics. Under current law, the FDA has no power to act, so two senators have i…
If gasoline or jobs or milk were in short supply, we’d all know about it. But unknown to most Americans, the country is now in the grips of a life-threatening drug shortage. Medical professionals are quite aware of it, however,…
This little-known biopharmaceutical outfit has signed not just one but seven partnership pacts with Big Pharmas to help develop some of its products. Micromet’s No. 1 appeal: It’s developing novel antibody-based drugs to treat …
Traditional chemotherapy for cancer patients is as dreaded as the disease itself. But Delcath’s “Chemosaturation System,” which is doing well so far in tests, promises to deliver treatments far more precisely, thus limiting sid…