Novartis

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal regulators said Monday a combination drug from Novartis to treat malaria works better than older drugs already on the market. The Swiss drugmaker has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its Coartem pill for...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ European patients had to pay some euro3 billion ($3.87 billion) more for medicines in 2000-2007 because pharmaceutical companies deliberately stalled the sale of cheaper generic versions, EU antitrust regulators said Friday. An...

Health-care stocks often are seen as a haven when the economy slows, but they've struggled lately. Nonetheless, they still have managed to outperform the broader market. No matter what the state of the economy, the demand for many health-care products...

Desde hace una década las autoridades de salud han estado extendiendo la edad de los niños que deben recibir la vacuna contra el resfrío, gripe (o flu, como se le conoce en inglés). Este año es la primera vez que las recomendaciones incluyen a todos los...

Attention, parents: Don't give your children under 4 over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, and read the fine print on labels, say makers of such remedies who have been under pressure to strengthen their warnings. The cough and cold medicine...

•Dr. Daniel Dietrick, a longtime member of St. Joseph Medical Center's medical staff, has been appointed clinical head of the Department of Surgery. Dietrick and his colleague Dr. Thomas Smyth were the first two surgeons at St. Joseph Medical...

We've long been told to keep an eye on our moles lest they progress to melanoma, a form of skin cancer that's treatable if caught early, deadly if not. But not all moles are equal -- some are risky; others can be safely left alone. The biological roots of...

Goodbye, Long Island's list of Top 100 public companies. This year, for the first time in the 11 years the paper has compiled this annual section, Newsday had to narrow the list to Long Island's Top 75 public companies. That's because there are no longer...

Heading into this weekend's American Diabetes Association meeting in Chicago, industry analysts are predicting a continued decline of the diabetes pill Avandia. Avandia, sold by British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC, has been losing market share in...

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.;...

International investing used to be a nice thing to do, a diversification move that indicated you were a little more sophisticated than the average investor. But it is becoming a mainstream strategy designed to snare better returns than the U.S. stock...

Big-name mutual funds often attract lots of attention, but some fine-performing, lesser-known funds also are worthy of investors' consideration. These funds don't have heavily advertised marquee names, are relatively small and haven't been around...