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(National Physical Laboratory) A new research paper sheds light on the way antibodies distinguish between different but closely related "biomarkers" -- proteins which reveal information about the condition of the human body.

This new understanding could enable pharmaceutical companies to develop new technologies for quickly diagnosing and treating fatal diseases.

Doctors' prescribing information (minus patients' names) is routinely sold to pharmaceutical companies to help them target their sales pitches.

Why is that wrong?

As online ad spending ramps up, pharmaceutical companies are pushing the FDA to issue guidelines on how they can use Twitter, Facebook and Google to market their products

Pharmaceutical companies need to invest more in developing new types ofantibiotics to counter the spread of lethal, drug-resistant "superbugs,"according to a report released this week.

Government incentives might justdo the trick

LONDON (AP) -- An ugly scramble is brewing over the swine flu vaccine - and when it becomes available, Britain, the United States and other nations could find that the contracts they signed with pharmaceutical companies are easily broken....

You just can't make this stuff up. On the Respectful Insolence blog, Orac recounted how pharmaceutical giant Merck hired medical publishing giant Elsevier to create what appeared to be a peer-reviewed journal, but theAustralasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine really was just a marketing outlet.

The goal was to market Fosamax and Vioxx.

Pharmaceutical companies and their media outlets are nervously watching for signs that Democrats may limit consumer advertising of prescription drugs

LONDON (AP) -- Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant....