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Tribune reporter It will be a bit longer before consumers see another brand-name prescription heartburn drug on the U.S. market. The Food and Drug Administration has told Deerfield-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc. that the agency won't...

About a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday. "For a new vaccine, 25% is really very good," Lance Rodewald,...

A widely used diabetes pill raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, according to a scientific analysis that reveals what some experts are calling another Vioxx-like example of the government failing to protect the public from an unsafe drug....

Prescription heartburn drugs, which have been burning a hole in consumers' wallets for years, could be in for another price break. Patients who take the popular brand-name proton-pump inhibitor known as Protonix, sold by New Jersey drug giant Wyeth,...

Q: Can I count on my shares of Prudential Financial Inc. to continue going up in price? --C.M., via the Internet A: The second-largest U.S. life insurer, behind only MetLife, has a strong brand identity. Backing that up is $2 trillion worth of policies...

Monday: -- Earnings: Eaton Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Novellus Systems Inc.; Sensient Technologies Corp. Tuesday: -- June producer price index -- June industrial production -- Earnings: AMB Property Corp.; Coca-Cola Co.; CSX Corp.; Forest Laboratories Inc.;...

He is a physician in central Connecticut who has asked that his name not be published. He feels that if he were identified, he'd be tarred and feathered by his white-coat colleagues. That's because he refuses to let drug company representatives - so-...

Members of Congress on Thursday accused the Food and Drug Administration of suppressing information, for as long as eight years, about the increased risks of suicidal thought and behavior in children and teenagers taking antidepressants. "There is...

A powerful and potentially addictive painkiller used by millions of Americans is causing rapid hearing loss, even deafness, in some patients who are misusing the drug, according to hearing researchers in Los Angeles and elsewhere. So far, at least 48...

Agency officials agreed in July 1999 to conduct a fast-track medical review of Lotronex, a pill from Glaxo Wellcome Inc. intended to treat irritable bowel syndrome in women. To justify such accelerated review, the FDA must find that the targeted disease...

When a hospital psychiatrist prescribed an antidepressant called Serzone for their 15-year-old daughter, Jimmie and Brenda Robinson assumed it was safe. The episode in February 1997 haunts them--Alissa Robinson nearly died while taking Serzone. After...