Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Friday that the last remaining Indian diplomats in Canada have been put "on notice" that the country will not tolerate any further criminal activity on its territory.
This warning comes in the wake (...)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug targeting a subset of leukemia patients with a genetic abnormality that makes the cancer harder to treat, according to AP.
It approved sales of Venclexta (VEHN'-clecks-tah) for patients (...)
As the furor over soaring U.S. prescription drug prices escalates and outrageous price hikes by several smaller drugmakers give the entire industry a black eye, the biggest U.S.-based drugmaker is expanding financial assistance to patients, (...)
Veterinary drugmaker Zoetis, looking to capitalize on increasing global demand for farmed fish, is buying the top maker of vaccines and other health products for aquaculture, according to AP.
Zoetis said Monday it will pay $765 million for privately (...)
A nurse who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa and was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital when she returned sued Gov. Chris Christie and state health officials on Thursday, saying they illegally held her against her will. The American (...)
An experimental drug for one of the hardest-to-treat types of hepatitis C has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, adding to the surge of new options â€" all much more effective but extremely costly for patients with the (...)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he disagrees with President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba and wants the president to demand the return of a convicted cop killer before diplomatic relations proceed, AP reported.
Christie (...)
The former president and CEO of a New Jersey-based engineering consulting firm has admitted his role in a scheme to overcharge the U.S. government for reconstruction projects overseas, including Afghanistan, AP reported.
Federal prosecutors say (...)
AlQa'dah 5, 1433, Sep 21, 2012, SPA -- Advisers to European Union regulators have recommended approval of a new anti-clotting drug for use by adults with a common irregular heart rhythm that boosts risk of strokes or blood clots, drug makers (...)
Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student (...)
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said Thursday that the European commission has approved treating children with its medicine for a rare, deadly lung condition - a drug better known as Viagra, AP reported.
The drug, Revatio, was approved in Europe about six (...)
Merck is making another deal in its strategy to become a top maker of biotech drugs, buying a British company that makes them, according to AP.
Merck & Co., the world"s second biggest drugmaker, says its United Kingdom subsidiary has agreed to (...)
The world"s biggest drugmaker said Monday it is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing and consolidating others, and cutting the jobs of roughly 15 percent of its scientists and support staff, according to AP.
The moves are part of (...)
Pfizer Inc., the world's
biggest drug company, is laying off up to 800 scientists
this year in its latest effort to refocus disappointing
research efforts and cut its massive overhead ahead of an
anticipated crash in revenue, according to (...)
A rural Florida police department
has banned cowboy boots after an officer wearing the
smooth-soled footwear slipped off the brake and crashed his
patrol car into a convenience store, according to AP.
«They had leather soles and when I hit the (...)
