Schering-Plough took over a Dutch biotech, Organon, and integrating the business and then got swallowed up by Merck.
AP - President Felipe Calderon promised federal investigations into all complaints of extortion and kidnapping in a Mexican border city overwhelmed by drug gang violence.
Reuters - Fake versions of GlaxoSmithKline's over-the-counter diet pill were contaminated with dangerously high levels of a prescription weight loss ingredient, U.S. officials warned on Saturday.
NYT: Court documents raise questions about how Wyeth worked for years to maintain the credibility of its hormone drugs even as the products were repeatedly under siege . Menopause. - Wyeth. - New York Times. - Health. - Women's Health.
As the only doctor in a 30-mile swath of Appalachia, Dennis Sandlin was committed to using a tracking system designed to curb prescription drug abuse, an epidemic in the area he had served for nearly two decades. Drug abuse. - Appalachia. - Health. - Subs
The winner of the CBS reality television show "Big Brother 9" was ordered on Tuesday to undergo substance abuse counseling at a Massachusetts treatment center before being released on bail on drug charges.
