An initiative that will appear on the November ballot in Oregon would expand a state prescription drug program to cover all residents without drug coverage, the Oregonian reports. The program, called the Oregon Prescription Drug Program, currently is limited to re...Monday, 18-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
Zimbabwean antiretroviral drug manufacturers are seeking certification from the World Health Organization to receive U.N. and other multilateral agency funding to produce more affordable antiretroviral drugs, Amon Mpofu, evaluation and monitoring manager for the country's National AIDS Council, said recently at the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists' annual mee...Monday, 18-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
GlaxoSmithKline has announced it would supply 90,000 packs of its antiretroviral drugs Combivir, Epivir and Ziagen to Russia at discounted prices by the end of 2006, the AFP/Yahoo! U.K and Ireland reports (AFP/Yahoo! U.K and I...Monday, 18-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
An increased number of physicians visited Web sites that promote brand-name prescription drugs during the first six months of 2006 to seek information about dosages and side effects, according to a recent Manhattan Research study, the ...Monday, 18-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
Chilean Health Minister Maria Soledad Barria earlier this month announced that the government will distribute Barr Laboratories' emergency contraceptive Plan B -- which can prevent pregnancy if taken up to 72 hours after sexual intercourse -- in public clinics to girls ages 14 and older at no cost and without parental consent, the ...Thursday, 14-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Medivir AB have announced a worldwide collaboration to develop and commercialize MIV-170, a preclinical non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, or NNRTI, intended for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults as part of an antiretroviral drug regimen. Terms of the agreement include an upfront payment from Bristol-Myers Squibb of $7.5 million to Medivir. Medivir al...Wednesday, 13-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
The strict regulations governing the prescription and use of the acne drug isotretinoin, sold by Roche under the brand name Accutane, are affecting the drug's sale and dispensation and raising concerns about sales of the medication over the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reports (Corbett Dooren, Wall Street Journal, 9/12). Studies have shown that isotretinoin can cause severe side effects in pregnant...Wednesday, 13-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
The Department of Justice on Monday joined a whistleblower lawsuit filed against California-based Dey, a generic medication division of Germany-based Merck KGaA, over allegations that the comp...Wednesday, 13-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it has settled its transfer pricing tax dispute with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This settlement resolves all the issues which were in dispute in this case. Under the agreement the final net cash cost to GSK will be approximately $3.1 billion which covers federal, state and local taxes, interest and also the benefit of tax relief on the payments made. The settlement covers the dispute for the peri...Tuesday, 12-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
TV advertising of prescription drugs may be prompting more people to visit their doctors rather than substantially increasing sales of advertised drugs, according to research led by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Initial results of an ongoing project at MUSC that looks at Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTC) for Cox-2 inhibitor drugs will be published in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs. Researchers from ...Tuesday, 12-Sep-2006 / [ Details... ]
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