U.S. regulators have decided to ban caffeinated alcoholic beverage such as Four Loko, on the grounds that they are unsafe. Five states have already prohibited sales of such drinks.
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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…
At a liver disease conference in Boston, one highlight is expected to be reports from Achillion about its new hepatitis C treatments, especially ACH-1625. The buzz is growing that the little biotech is attracting the attention …
Vivus shares are soaring this morning, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the drugmaker’s obesity drug Qnexa yesterday. Investors are hoping that the FDA’s rejection, which includes a request for more sa…
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…