Apotex, a drugmaker headquartered in Canada, is recalling all of its heartburn medicines containing ranitidine from the U.S., after a potentially cancer-causing impurity was found in them.
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The FDA has approved Jynneos, a smallpox and monkeypox live and nonreplicating vaccine.
Pharmacy deserts are increasingly an issue across the U.S., according to Drug Topics.
President Donald Trump is putting pressure on his party to come up with a plan to lower drug costs as House Democrats move quickly to advance their proposals, according to Politico.
Bayer will invest more than $30 million over the next five years to open a lab in Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital to develop drugs to treat chronic lung diseases, according to The Boston Globe.
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Novartis said two brothers who were senior researchers at the company were responsible for the manipulation of data behind its $2.1 million gene therapy, Zolgensma, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals' stocks dropped substantially Sept. 23 for the second time in two weeks, though the company has no explanation, according to STAT.
The FDA announced Sept. 23 updated guidelines for developing drugs to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Sept. 25 marks this year's World Pharmacist Day, which aims to recognize the role pharmacists play in improving health throughout the world.
The United States Pharmacopeia is postponing the effective dates of several revised compounding standards because of appeals against them, according to a Sept. 23 American Hospital Association news release.