Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has been awarded $38.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). BIDMC scientists received a total of 69 grants across all medical-center departments, including surgery, neurology, pathology and a wide swath of divisions within [...]

A new analysis of 20 years of data contradicts previously published claims that United States pharmaceutical companies are better innovators than their European counterparts, and questions whether Americans actually benefit from the higher prices they pay for many prescription medications. The re-analysis by Donald W. Light, PhD, a professor of social medicine and comparative health [...]

Several American pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson or Merck & Co are currently fighting losses in sales and a lack of upcoming products. In Europe, Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline are affected. However, not all pharmaceutical companies are suffering from the crisis. According to the assessment of many analysts, Roche, Novartis and Bayer, for [...]