Lawmakers want the new acting head of the Food and Drug Administration to allow sales of Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc's "morning-after" pill without a prescription, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.

Barr has pursued over-the-counter sales of its emergency contraceptive drug, called Plan B, for more than two years

The Perrigo Company announced that through a partnership with InvaGen Pharmaceuticals, it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Glimepiride Tablets.

Shipment of the product will begin immediately. The product is the generic equivalent to Aventis' Amaryl(R) Tablets, 1 mg, 2 mg and 4 mg, indicated for the treatment of diabetes

The Perrigo Company announced that through a partnership with InvaGen Pharmaceuticals, it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Glimepiride Tablets.

Shipment of the product will begin immediately. The product is the generic equivalent to Aventis' Amaryl(R) Tablets, 1 mg, 2 mg and 4 mg, indicated for the treatment of diabetes

Biological health care product provider CSL Ltd announces that a new vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Merck, based on CSL technology, has prevented high grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers, reports Asia Pulse.

CSL says that the Gardasil prevents the pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 that make up about 70 per cent of all cervical cancers

Researchers say warming ocean waters may have tainted Alaskan oysters with a bacteria that prompted four outbreaks of illness on a cruise ship among people who ate the raw food.

"The rising temperatures of ocean water seem to have contributed to one of the largest known outbreaks of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the United States," says Joseph McLaughlin of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, referring to the bacterium responsible for the outbreak