The OFT today recommended that the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme ( PPRS ) should be reformed, to deliver better value for money from NHS drug spend and to focus business investment on drugs that have the greatest benefits for patients.
ConAgra Foods Inc. said its nationwide recall of peanut butter will cost between $50 million and $60 million, hurting its third-quarter earnings.
The current battle between the makers of anti-wrinkle products – widely compared with the Coke and Pepsi struggle for superiority – is receiving an injection of scientific understanding with the release of a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to use certain jars of Earth?s Best Organic 2 Apple Peach Barley Wholesome Breakfast baby food because of the risk of contamination with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause botulism, a life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled.
Health Canada, the Canadian government regulatory agency, has approved wide-ranging new health claims for COLD-fX, the most popular cold/flu remedy in Canada.
With an aging population susceptible to stroke, Parkinson?s disease and other neurological conditions, and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious limb injuries, the need for strategies that treat complex neurological impairments has never been greater.
Merck & Co. announced a reduction in the price of its HIV/AIDS medicine, STOCRIN (efavirenz), in the least developed countries of the world and those hardest hit by the epidemic.
FDA warns consumers not to eat certain jars of peter pan peanut butter and great value peanut butter. Product may be contaminated with salmonella.
UM entomologist Jerry Bromenshenk and his team at Bee Alert Technologies Inc. has been enlisted to find out what’s bugging the bees –the leading pollinator of humanity’s crops. A mysterious ailment called Colony Collapse Disorder is causing agricultural honeybees nationwide to abandon their hives and disappear.
Leading players in the mobile phone industry and the U.S. Government have joined forces to fight HIV/AIDS and other health challenges in 10 African countries.