Life Sciences & Technology

The FDA has submitted for review to the Office of Management and Budget a final rule to set up a unique device identifier system for medical technologies. The UDI system is intended to improve medical… Read More

Eli Lilly and Co. is exercising a $7 million option to obtain all development and marketing rights to Transition Therapeutics' experimental type 2 diabetes drug TT-401. Transition could get around $24… Read More

The FDA plans to analyze commercial shipping data from the past six years in order to uncover illegal cigarette sales or sales of counterfeit cigarettes, according to a solicitation from the FDA seeki… Read More

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court announced a 5-3 decision in FTC v. Actavis which ends the legal presumption that “pay for delay” agreements among branded and generic drug companies are legal. The… Read More

Researchers at Astellas Pharma and Kyoto University have developed a method to produce nephron progenitor cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells using various c… Read More

InVentiv Health will tap Medikly's cloud-based platform to help clinical trial sponsors reach physicians interested in acting as investigators or referring patients for trials. Trial sponsors can crea… Read More

The U.S. remains a ways off from achieving widespread interoperability where "every encounter and every patient has access to all the world's knowledge," but the nation is making steady progress, Nati… Read More

Obesity interventions, including lifestyle modification, drugs and bariatric surgery, should focus on people with prediabetes, Dr. W. Timothy Garvey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham told End… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower-court ruling, allowing the Federal Trade Commission to proceed in its case against Solvay Pharmaceuticals, accused of paying to delay introduction of generic al… Read More

Physicians need a way to review information about themselves before drug and device companies report the data to the National Physician Payment Transparency Program, the American Academy of Family Phy… Read More