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My friend Jim Cordy was 40 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. That was 16 years ago. There is no medicine to slow the inexorable neurodegeneration that is the underlying cause of Jim's ...

Is Big Pharma crying wolf over Medicare's new drug pricing negotiations? Will diminished revenue from Medicare negotiating their cost of drugs, and other drug pricing controls, result in reduced ...

Takeda announced positive late-stage results for its new type 2 diabetes drug, fasiglifam (TAK-875), the first GPR40 agonist to reach late-stage development. Fasiglifam has the potential to be a ...

Once upon a time there was an industry called pharma that was interested in doing well and doing good. Run by doctors and chemists, drug companies employed battalions of researchers whose scientific ...