Drug
As a therapeutic agent, a drug is any substance, other than food, used in the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease. It is also a general term for any substance, stimu...
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A bid to allow lower-priced drugs to be imported from Canada and elsewhere survived a challenge in the Senate on Thursday, making approval likely early next week despite the Bush administration's o...
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The tens of thousands of people in the U.S. who are infected by hepatitis B each year gained a new drug on Wednesday to fight the virus.
The Food and Drug Administration said it approved T...
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Government health officials on Wednesday began cracking down on Internet sales of custom-mixed hormones for menopausal women, a market born when doctors deemed prescription estrogen therapy too ris...
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The health ministry's drug-assessing panel adopted Monday a
limit of up to 5 million yen a year for the donations its members can
receive from one pharmaceutical maker if they are taking part...
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Shares of Amgen Inc. slipped more than 2 percent Friday as the company met with analysts to discuss a study that found its best-selling drug Aranesp was not significantly better than a placebo in a...
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A former assistant of the head of China's pharmaceutical regulator, who was sentenced to death in late May, went on trial Thursday for alleged bribery, a Beijing court official said.No judgment was...
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Drug
Senate approves drug imports amendment
