 | | | | GlaxoSmithKline bolstered its cancer drug development pipeline, agreeing to pay up to 3.7 billion euros ($4.22 billion) to Germany's Merck KGaA for the rights to a novel immunotherapy. | | | | | | The European Union's top health official hit out at Greece's deputy health minister for publicly defying the country's smoking ban, saying in remarks published on Tuesday the practice was shameful. | | | | | | (This Feb. 4 story corrects seventh para to say Merck's Gardasil vaccine targets nine (not four) strains of HPV) | | | | | | Swiss drugmaker Roche aims to broaden the use of its Kadcyla breast cancer treatment as rivals crowd into the market with biosimilar copies of its older mainstay Herceptin. | | | | | | Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics unit is in settlement talks to resolve the bulk of individual lawsuits alleging the company's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants were defective and caused severe injuries, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said on Monday. | | | | | | A powerful U.S. Senate committee on Monday invited seven pharmaceutical companies to testify at a hearing later this month examining rising prescription drug prices. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Compounded pain creams are no better for chronic pain than topical treatments that contain no medicine at all, a U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals on Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been available to patients for free. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Drivers who don't wear seatbelts are more likely to skip seatbelts and car seats for their kids, an analysis of U.S. crash data suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Cancer patients are more successful at giving up cigarettes for good if they take smoking-cessation medicine for 24 weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks, a small clinical trial suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Just one in 20 U.S. children and teens gets the amount of sleep, exercise and screen time that doctors recommend for optimal health, a new study suggests. | | | | | |
