| (The New York Times News Service) -- A renowned Boston oncologist, Dr. Sidney Farber, pioneered a treatment in the late 1940s to beat a childhood cancer long thought to be incurable. Today, however, children diagnosed with the disease, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, face another threat: a shortage of one of the drugs Farber used to cure it.
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver life-saving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides resume protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A drug shown to be highly effective in preventing breast cancer in postmenopausal women at high risk for the disease appears to worsen age-related bone loss, despite regular ingestion of calcium and vitamin D, researchers have discovered.
(Chicago Tribune) -- Upon learning they are pregnant, most women dutifully nix the alcohol, sushi and caffeine.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New research offers hope for the first pill to treat a common problem in young women: fibroids in the uterus. The growths can cause pain, heavy bleeding and fertility problems, and they are the leading cause of hysterectomies.
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the highest levels ever of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been found in Russia and Moldova.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills after uncovering a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant accidentally.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Consumers should avoid taking a daily dose of the antidepressant Celexa in excess of 40 milligrams, as higher doses can cause abnormal heart rhythms, the drug's Canadian distributor says.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands more patients with the inherited disease.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators on Monday approved a pill that treats the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma.
LONDON (Canadian Press) -- The death rate from heart attacks in England has dropped by half in the last decade, a new study concludes.
(Associated Press) -- Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An acid reflux drug often used for hard-to-treat asthma doesn't help children with the breathing disease and may cause side effects, a study in 300 children found.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases long-ignored by drug companies.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- A European Union high court ruled on Wednesday that the name Viaguara cannot be registered as an EU trademark for energy and alcoholic drinks because it is too similar to the impotence pill Viagra.
LONDON (AP) -- A multiple sclerosis drug made by industry giant Novartis is under investigation after at least 11 patients taking the medicine died.
(Associated Pres) -- Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
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