May 16: Bristol-Myers' top selling blood thinner "Plavix" is going generic, reports CNBC's Seema Mody. Matt Cheslock, Virtu Financial, weighs in on how to trade the pharmaceuticals sector right now.

Occupy protesters gathered at a Bayer facility in Berkeley on Wednesday, urging the drug maker to stop making pesticides that may be killing bees. Don Ford reports.

The pharmaceutical industry could owe the Federal Government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme hundreds of millions of dollars after recent court cases. Transcript

A parliamentary panel says some doctors are colluding with big pharmaceutical companies to sell unsafe drugs to the Indian consumers.

Medicines Australia's chief executive Brendan Shaw joins Lateline to discuss the issues surrounding disputed pharmaceutical patents. Transcript

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The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications made at a Novartis manufacturing plant. ...

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A county in the U.S. state of California is suing  GlaxoSmith Kline, the maker of Avandia, a controvers ial diabetes drug. The lawsuit was spurred by a report on the drug released by the U.S. Senate ...

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The internatio nal pharmaceut ical company GlaxoSmith Kline announced October 14 that it will donate 400 million more tablets for the treatment of intestinal worms in children. This comes as the ...