21 May 2013
4 May 1992
Harvey Sadow has been elected chairman of the board of Cholestech Corporation. Until he retired in 1988, he was the...
4 May 1992
The US National Cancer Institute has given the go-ahead for a five-year, placebo-controlled trial of tamoxifen in 16,000 women. It...
4 May 1992
The Liposome Company reports that a high response rate and a good safety profile have been observed with its TLC...
4 May 1992
Royce Labs Inc reports that the US Food and Drug Admin-istration has rejected its application to market a generic version...
4 May 1992
Claims by Rhone Poulenc Rorer that its new cardioselective beta blocker Celectol (celiprolol) "improves the overall cardiovascular risk profile" in...
4 May 1992
The French vaccines and blood products group Pasteur Merieux, part of the Rhone-Poulenc group, has suspended the distribution of three...
4 May 1992
The US Southern District Court of New York has invalidated Imperial Chemical Industries' US patent for its breast cancer treatment...
4 May 1992
Wellcome's antiviral drug Zov-irax (aciclovir) has been shown to significantly reduce the duration and severity of chickenpox in otherwise healthy...
4 May 1992
The government of Kenya says it is hoping to import Indian pharmaceuticals at "competitive prices," which would save it up...
4 May 1992
Pharmaceutical products are currently in short supply in Nigeria, and those that are available are high-priced, according to the national...