We said we had a sense of deja vu going into the State of the Union, but this is ridiculous. Last night, President Barack Obama devoted 516...

Remember when this round of health care reform began? There was just one thing everyone agreed on: the status quo is no longer an option. Re...

The big news in Washington is the unexpected retirements of two prominent Democratic Senators: Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dor...

It may be time to forget auld acquaintance but we still aren't done with health care reform. The biggest political story of 2009 for the...

This week we’ve got a little bit of everything out there for you FOTFanatics. Corporate Venture? Of course. Meaty FOPO? You got it. Odd rest...

The Obama administration may have sent a subtle message to drug manufacturers Monday, when it nominated Julie Brill to be one of two new com...

The Medicines Company’s years-long effort to alter federal patent rules to allow certain filings to be approved even if they are late is nei...

Part of the fun in reading the national news section of The Washington Post has always been the deciphering – trying to figure out who an un...

With a little help from its GOP friends in the Senate, the pharma industry could still fashion a bad agreement on CER out of the positive di...

Just as we were enjoying President Obama’s unflagging effort to promote health reform as a collaborative, hand-holding effort drawing from b...

If you walk by Pfizer’s Manhattan headquarters, you might spot a “Help Wanted” sign in the window. Something like “World’s Largest Pharma Co...

Orwellian resonances aside, the year 1984 is a turning point in the history of the biopharmaceutical industry. That is the year when the gen...

Politics played a role in the review of Plan B? We’re shocked—shocked I say—to hear it. That “gambling in Casablanca” moment is courtesy of ...

The smokeless backrooms of politics in Washington 2009 are looking like a good environment for the biopharma industry -- better even than th...

What we've been telling you for some time is now official: Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is the front-runner to replace Tom Daschle ...

Seriously, folks. Forget that business about selling the Obama senate seat or that Rod Blagojevich, in general, appeared to be a crude and g...

In his farewell address , former President George W. Bush warned against a retreat into isolationism in response to the global economic cris...

Novartis isn't taking any chances about missing the last call from the government's cash spigot for vaccine manufacturers. The Swiss...