http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/washington/31tobacco.html?em&ex=1217649600&en=eb82165b687e375e&ei=5087%0ARead more... )

Drug regulators and the maker of an emergency contraceptive medicine agreed yesterday on a plan that could lead within weeks to over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill ( Read more... )

I've been noticing more various products marked, "This product not tested on animals." That's very noble of it... however, these seem to come on such great innovations as hand soap and shampoo which have had about the same essential formulation for years. Further, the key ingredients, say sodium laurel sulphate (which does the all-important job ( Read more... )

As I proceed into my PhD I get more interested in the ethics of pharma companies. The PharmaGossip Blog is often insightful. . The other day it pointed to a WSJ article about a surprisingly corrupt study by Sanofi-Aventis for an antibiotic called Ketek ( Read more... )