At The iGEM Competition, College Students Engineer New Biological Systems

2010-11-29T14:47:14Z

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Genzyme

2010-11-30T13:10:01Z

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Scientists grow working, miniature livers

2010-11-03T15:40:22Z

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Industry-paid studies likely to favor company drug

2010-08-03T15:46:46Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When drugmakers fund studies of their own products, the results are much more likely to be positive than when the government picks up the bill, US researchers said Monday.

They found that about 85 percent of industry-backed studies reported positive outcomes, compared to only half of those with federal funding.

Among the nearl...

Special Report: Inside the battle for Genzyme's future

2010-05-05T15:16:49Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - At a recent dinner to honor the achievements of Henri Termeer, chief executive of biotechnology company Genzyme, Ananth Raman broke down as he recalled the moment he learned his 7-month old daughter had Pompe disease, a rar...

Struggling biotech Epix Pharmaceuticals goes bust

2010-04-16T11:14:19Z

Struggling US biotech firm Epix Pharma liquidating assets to pay off creditors

Epix, a struggling biotechnology firm working with British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC to develop an Alzheimer's disease drug, says it is winding down its operations and selling off assets to pay off creditors.

Practicing good medicine

2010-04-16T17:33:36Z

Doctors should learn to rely less on manufacturers’ sales pitches when prescribing drugs

If you have visited a doctor’s office lately, chances are you have seen pens, coffee mugs and other trinkets that advertise a particular drug. Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars annually trying to persuade physicians to prescribe their medications.

Starting on Jan. 1 the drug industry agreed to stop showering doctors with these advertising freebies under...

Drugmakers to report doctor pay

2010-11-02T12:42:14Z

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Enlight Biosciences Launched in Collaboration with Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, and Eli Lilly

2010-10-23T15:58:52Z

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Health-Care Fraud: Keep an Eye on the Small Fry

2010-10-22T23:02:48Z

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Federal Grand Jury Probes Biovail Over Cardizem LA

2010-10-22T17:11:04Z

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BIO Bacchanalia in Boston

2010-10-25T20:47:10Z

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Investor and CEO Perspectives on Biotechnology

2010-10-23T02:49:06Z

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Obit Shah of Irans Son

2011-01-04T15:02:01Z

A Boston Police Officer walks up the front steps of the South End home of Alireza Pahlavi as a woman walks past in Boston, late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 4, 2011. Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late shah of Iran, was found dead Tuesday of an apparent suicide at his home in Boston, after he had "struggled for years to overcome his sorrow," his brother s...

Cancer Blood Test

2011-01-07T13:00:33Z

A researcher works near a blood test machine recently developed which is so sensitive it can spot a singe cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones during a media availability in Boston, Monday afternoon, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Trolley Crash

2010-12-29T12:31:42Z

Aiden Quinn, a former Boston subway driver who authorities say was texting his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the rear of another one, injuring more than 60 people, stands in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. Quinn changed his plea Wednesday to guilty. He had previously pl...

Winter Weather

2010-12-27T14:00:21Z

Children on a toboggan get ready to slide down a hill on Boston Common in Boston, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands of would-be air, rail and road travelers Monday, shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day, stranding buses on buried highways, and forcing New York City su...

Indiana Boston College Basketball

2010-12-01T19:01:07Z

Boston College's Danny Rubin, right, and Indiana's Verdell Jones III struggle for a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA

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