Drug

Want some taste with that ice cream?

By MAE ANDERSONAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Nonfat cheese that tastes like plastic. Low-calorie soda that leaves a bitter aftertaste. Sugar-free brownies that crumble like Styrofoam. Dieters have learned an important lesson: When you take the fat and calories out of your favorite treats,

Suspicions ignored as bosses let chemist work on

By BRIDGET MURPHYAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Chemist Annie Dookhan was "Superwoman," a colleague at a Massachusetts state crime lab used to joke. She seemed unstoppable in her quest to please prosecutors, police and her bosses, testing two to three times more drug samples than anyone else,

FDA to rule on Bristol-Myers/Pfizer drug in March

NEW YORK (AP) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration has accepted a new application for their anti-clotting drug Eliquis and will make a decision by March 17. The companies want the FDA to allow them to market Eliquis as a preventive treatment for

LatAm presidents call for drug debate at UN

By PABLO ELIAS GIUSSANIAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The leaders of three Latin American nations hit hard by drug trafficking called on the membership of the United Nations on Wednesday to promote a debate on alternative ways to combat drug trafficking. In an unusually energetic