The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reportedly disapproved GlaxoSmithKline Plc's antidepressant gepirone ER for use in adults with major depression.

The United Kingdom-based company said the FDA labeled the drug as "not approvable" and it cannot be cleared for marketing in the U.S

A new standardized coding system is now available to assist clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators, policy makers and parents to document and measure the important growth, health and development characteristics of children and youth.

Developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it is the first internationally agreed classification code for assessing the health of children and youth in different stages of development and the environments in which they live, according to a WHO report

Sanofi-Aventis Group, a leading global pharmaceutical company, received federal approval for the use of its bacteria-infection vaccine Menactra in children on Friday .

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a license to Sanofi to expand the indication for its meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Menactra(R) to include children 2 years through 10 years of age

According to a new study by Sonoma State University Health and disability insurance companies are systematically "cheating" the American public by a series of collaborative decisions. On the boards of directors of the 9 largest insurance companies are 113 people and they are tied to some of th world's largest corporations around the world.

The group hold 150 past and/or present positions with major financial or investment institutions, and combined affiliations represent 2006 revenue of over $2,500,000,000,000

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Optometric Association-backed Vision Care for Kids Act of 2007 (H.R. 507). According to the AOA, representing some 34,000 providers of eye and vision care in communities across America, the legislation recognizes the link between healthy vision and classroom learning and seeks to provide new Federal funding to expand the reach of children's vision programs currently in place at the state level.

The bill sponsored by Representatives Gene Green (D-TX); Bill Pascrell (D-NJ); Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL); Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Vito Fossella (R-NY) would establish a federal grant program focusing on treatment and supports children's vision initiatives in the states and advocates children's vision partnerships with non-profit entities