On this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Melody Petersen, an independent journalist who formerly covered the drug industry for the NEW YORK TIMES and is author of OUR DAILY MEDS: HOW THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is ...

Historically, Teva produced generic drugs, which can be a lucrative business model. Essentially, some other pharmaceutical company puts in the time, effort, and expense of developing a medication.

In the U.S., pharmaceutical companies can advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers. They run TV commercials and take out glossy full-page ads in magazines. But this is not the norm. In fact, ...

The pharmaceutical-sales field, often called "recession-proof," is popular because it offers excellent salary potential, great benefits, flexibility, opportunity for growth, and frequently the use of ...

A stylized image of Max Barnhart sitting on a chair with his arm on a pillow, receiving an IV infusion. The background is a grid containing a microscope image of malaria parasites flanked on each side ...

Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in ...