Some 1,100 lawsuits have been filed against Bayer HealthCare claiming health risks from its Yasmin and Yaz brand birth control pills. But is there any evidence behind the claimed problems, which include dangerous blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and gallbladder disease? Report
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Novartis has released more information about its U.S. drug reorganization: Andre Wyss is set to take the reins of that business, which is restructuring and cutting about 20 percent of its headquarters staff. That’s 383 jobs, though they’re not all layoffs; some of the shrinkage is coming via attrition….
It’s earnings time again. Today’s numbers come from Novartis (profits up) and Johnson & Johnson (drug revenues down), plus Biogen Idec and Boehringer Ingelheim. Here are the highlights. Novartis Q1 sales rose by 25 percent to $12.13 billion, boosted by new products and influenza vaccine. Net profits jumped by…
Drug sales growth will slow this year, but the industry is still set to top $1 trillion by 2014. Burgeoning markets in the developing world will help make up the losses to generic competition elsewhere, IMS Health says. And that’s not what everyone was expecting a few years ago…
Drug prices leaped last year by 9.1 percent. That’s the biggest increase in at least 10 years, Express Scripts found in its annual drug-trend report. Some common meds got double-digit increases, such as the 13.6 percent increase for Eli Lilly’s ( NYSE: LLY ) antidepressant Cymbalta, or the 12.1…
A few weeks ago, I was watching part of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I am not sure what the official title was of the sport that I was watching, but it consisted of a bunch of extremely gorgeous girls skiing down a very steep mountain fast enough that it…
I noticed an interesting short article – well actually a Q&A where a reader asks a qualified doctor a question, on one of the news sites I frequent the other day. This one of course caught my eye because it was about acne, more specifically it was about acne…
When Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Denmark was diagnosed with bone cancer at age 27, she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to have children. So she asked her doctors if they could remove an ovary before her treatment and transplant it back afterward to preserve her fertility. More than…
Imagine a festival so huge and elaborate that eighty percent of an entire country’s beer consumption takes place in the span of one week. No, it isn’t Mardi Gras we are talking about here. In Brazil, this weeklong event that virtually puts the country at a standstill for an…
Women who have their “tubes tied” to prevent future pregnancies do not seem to have an increased risk of sexual dysfunction afterward, according to a new study. In fact, researchers found, women in their study who’d had the procedure showed lower risks of certain sexual problems and tended to…