pharmaceuticals

The company’s recent effort to find new treatments for Alzheimer’s ended in disappointment.

The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.

If approved, patisiran will be the first RNAi therapeutic on the market. 

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island, pharmaceutical plants are not back up to speed.

A US government website for collecting reports of side effects associated with vaccines is broken. Why has no one noticed?

With its purchase of Actelion, Johnson & Johnson’s acquires experimental treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension and several rare diseases.

The pharma giant’s purchase of the US firm includes the acquisition of investigative cancer drugs.

A report finds that new medications still take about 12 years to go from patent to patient.

In the initial steps of a campaign to make clinical reports publicly available, the European Medicines Agency has published data on two recently approved drugs.

Experiments conducted at the New York University School of Medicine violated several research standards, according to US Food and Drug Administration investigators.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals is criticized for jacking up the price of a drug used in assisted suicide.

In a deal worth $5.8 billion, Abbott Laboratories is buying medical test–maker Alere.

The Dublin-based pharma giant is set to acquire Baxalta, an Illinois-based Baxter spinoff, expanding its rare disease drug portfolio.

The boards of both companies have agreed to a $1.3 billion deal, which is subject to Affymetrix shareholder approval.

The pharmaceutical company will spend $335 million on a new venture with biotech startup CRISPR Therapeutics.

Mexico’s health ministry has OKed the vaccine for people between nine and 45 years old.

Turing Pharmaceuticals will soon offer discounts to hospitals for its toxoplasmosis-fighting drug, the company announced, but some say the proposed price reductions are not enough.