Microsoft’s HealthVault has announced a collaboration deal with communications giant AT&T and computer platform service provider Covisint that will allow patients to share medical information with participating doctors via the Internet.
FDA to Merck: Wait until 2013 for cholesterol drug
Pfizer bought some extra time for its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor (atorvastatin) by reaching a settlement with Ranbaxy Laboratories delaying the US launch of a generic version of the world’s top selling pharmaceutical brand.
First-year sales of GSK’s Alli ‘underwhelming,’ analyst says
Although four million people have tried GlaxoSmithKline’s OTC weight loss drug Alli during its first year on the market, preliminary sales figures are “pretty underwhelming,” one analyst tells the Associated Press.
Revolution Health reduces staff by 50 to ‘consolidate synergies’
Nonprofit health maintenance organization (HMO) Kaiser Permanente has partnered with Microsoft in its push for electronic consumer-controlled health records.
Pfizer’s smoking cessation treatment Chantix was the top-searched prescription brand online in February, generating more than 500,000 search queries, according to internet measurement firm comScor