Allergan’s Lap-Band, a device implanted in the stomach to limit the amount of food that can be ingested, is already on the market to help the very obese lose weight. But now the company hopes to win approval for less obese pati…
The FDA has approved Amgen’s osteoporosis drug denosumab for use by cancer patients with solid tumors whose disease has metastasized to their bones. The indication to prevent complications such as fractures and bone pain among …
Unlike generics, which are the exact chemical copies of a brand-name drug, biosimilars have large and often complex proteins that are made in living cells, and tiny differences can play havoc with the product. It may take years…
Pfizer’s cancer drug crizotinib was able to shrink tumors of non-small-cell lung cancer patients whose tumors carried a specific genetic mutation that fuses two genes. The early-stage study results were published in the New Eng…
Shares of pharmaceutical companies Amylin, Alkermes, and Eli Lilly — partners in a new diabetes drug Bydureon — have tanked in morning trading as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined on Tuesday to approve the drug w…