An LPGA official told Sorenstam shortly after her second and final round at the ADT Championship that she needed to submit to a random test, which Sorenstam said was her second in recent weeks.
"I really don't know what's going on," Sorenstam said. "They're not going to let me go (away)."
The LPGA started a random testing plan at the start of this season. Earlier this week, LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens said she could not discuss how many players Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Shares of Targanta Therapeutics Corp. plunged Thursday, a day after a panel of government experts voted against the benefits of the company's antibiotic.
On Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration's panel of infection experts voted 10 to 8 against the overall safety and effectiveness of the company's injectable drug, called oritavancin.
Shares of the Cambridge, Mass.-based company plummeted $6.48, or 84 percent, Read the rest of this entry »

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A jury has ordered drugmaker Roche to pay nearly $13 million to three patients who claim they developed a chronic bowel disorder because of the company's acne drug Accutane.
Roche's U.S. subsidiary Hoffman-La Roche said it would appeal the verdict.
The money, handed down in New Jersey State Superior Court on Thursday, will be split among the three Florida residents, their attorneys said in a statement. All three Read the rest of this entry »

Mexican authorities have arrested a senior police official for allegedly working with drug cartels.
The arrest Tuesday of Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, Mexico's representative to the international police force, Interpol was part of a probe into leaks of information to drug gangs.
Mexico has seen increasingly brutal drug-related violence, which has claimed thousands of lives.
In Tijuana, federal agents and military forces are temporarily replacing Read the rest of this entry »

Inc. antibiotic designed to treat serious skin infections, including some caused by a type of staph bacterium known as MRSA that is resistant to many antibiotics.
The drug, telavancin, was considered Wednesday by a Food and Drug Administration panel of outside medical experts that was called to make recommendations to the agency about whether it thinks the drug should be approved.
The panel voted 21 to 5 in favor of a question asking whether the Read the rest of this entry »

Conference faculty will outline ways to mitigate the increasing cost of
workforce obesity and strategies to increase compliance with medications
crucial to controlling chronic health conditions. Health informatics
experts will demonstrate tools to model and measure financial
implications of value-based benefit designs. An employee benefits
attorney will discuss the critical legal considerations when designing Read the rest of this entry »

Amgen, Takeda's Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) --
's decision to suspend a
clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug, motesanib,
because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company's
efforts to expand into the market for oncology treatments.
Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company by sales,
and Japan's
were testing the drug in a
late-stage trial as an initial treatment, Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - IDM Pharma Inc. said Tuesday that regulators recommended its osteosarcoma drug mifamurtide be approved for sale in the European Union, and IDM stock surged in morning trading.
IDM said the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended approval for the drug. That view will be adopted at the committee's next meeting, in December, and IDM expects the drug to receive full approval Read the rest of this entry »

) is one of the
world's leading independent research and technology development
organizations. SRI, which was founded by Stanford University as
Stanford Research Institute in 1946 and became independent in 1970,
has been meeting the strategic needs of clients and partners for more
than 60 years. Perhaps best known for its invention of the computer
mouse and interactive computing, SRI has also been responsible for
major advances in networking Read the rest of this entry »

"The addict has been falsely stigmatized, and the fact is that many
addicts are educated professionals who have developed addictions after
abusing prescription pain medications, drinking too often in social
environments or to calm their nerves, and partaking in casual drug use
to overcome stress," said Dr. Harold Urschel III, MD, Enterhealth's
chief medical strategist. "This is why Enterhealth's program includes Read the rest of this entry »