More than 2,000 people died of drug and alcohol overdoses in Maryland last year, an increase of 66 percent over 2015. Calling the deaths a “grim tide,” Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Dennis Schrader said in a statement Thursday that ...

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Alba Therapeutics Corp., of Baltimore, a developer of drugs to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, said it has seen positive results from a Phase IIb clinical trial of a new drug, larazotide acetate, to treat celiac disease.

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In a victory to generic pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that state design-defect laws that impose a duty on generic drug makers to either change their labeling in violation of federal law or pull the drug from the market are preempted.

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BERLIN — Several Maryland medical facilities spent Thursday calling patients who received injections of a possibly tainted steroid linked to the illnesses of about three dozen people in several states. At least five people have died. The Maryland Department of ...

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NEW YORK — Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson said Monday they are ending development of an intravenous formulation of a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease after the treatment failed in two late-stage clinical trials. The companies said bapineuzumab intravenous ...

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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences’ pill Truvada as ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says the makers of a name brand drug may have to correct a patent that could hinder the approval of a generic drug. The high court on Tuesday agreed with a court decision that forced ...

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WASHINGTON — A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Monday weighed a potentially costly challenge to the pharmaceutical industry’s practice of not paying overtime to its sales representatives. The justices questioned whether the federal law governing overtime pay should apply to ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously tossed out medical patent claims for Prometheus Laboratories on Tuesday for a test that could help doctors set drug doses for autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s disease, a decision that could affect the burgeoning field ...

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MedImmune Inc. of Gaithersburg, the manufacturer of the FluMist nasal spray influenza vaccident, said that it has begun shipping FluMist doses to flu vaccine distributors throughout the United States. MedImmune expects to provide approximately 15 million – 16 million doses ...

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