http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.xml Featuring Health News and Articles en-us Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:30:08 GMT Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:30:08 GMT pMachine 2.3 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.xml Featuring Health News and Articles http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.php?id=P82 Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant has acquired two companies as it aims to expand its generics drug portfolio and increase its presence in the generics sector. The strategic move is expected to make Novartis the world’s top seller of branded drugs. The Swiss drugs firm has taken an unprecedented step into the usually hostile territory of generic pharmaceuticals by agreeing to pay €5.65 billion in cash to buy German firm Hexal AG and just over two thirds of Eon Labs Inc of the... http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.php?id=P82 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:32:20 GMT http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.php?id=P81 FDA panelists had ties to makers of Vioxx, Bextra Ten of the 32 government drug advisers who last week endorsed continued marketing of the huge-selling pain pills Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx have consulted in recent years for the drugs' makers, according to disclosures in medical journals and other public records. If the 10 advisers had not cast their votes, the committee would have voted 12-8 that Bextra should be withdrawn and 14-8 that Vioxx should not return to the market. The... http://news.nitpickit.com/Health.php?id=P81 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:26:20 GMT