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Recent studies suggest considerable benefits from increased levels of B12, especially in adults over 50, but they cannot prove cause and effect.

Federal health officials said that they were reviewing a higher rate of deaths among patients treated with a Johnson & Johnson anemia drug in a German study of stroke patients.

Federal health officials said that they were reviewing a higher rate of deaths among patients treated with a Johnson & Johnson anemia drug in a German study of stroke patients.

A quarter to a third of all pregnant women on the subcontinent are infected with hookworm, a new analysis suggests.

Amgen’s experimental bone drug reduced the risk of spinal fractures in women with osteoporosis by 68 percent in a pivotal clinical trial.

The company is halting some pricing practices that critics say were contributing to overuse of its flagship anemia drug Aranesp at a time of mounting concerns about the product?s safety.

The company is halting some pricing practices that critics say were contributing to overuse of its flagship anemia drug Aranesp at a time of mounting concerns about the product?s safety.

The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Amgen to change the labels for its flagship anemia drugs in a way that could further restrict their use in treating patients with cancer.

The move, which the F.D.A. is expected to announce on Wednesday, represents the first time the agency has ordered changes in a drug?s prescribing information.

Amgen reported a far better than expected quarterly profit as sales of its anemia drug Aranesp rebounded from the preceding quarter.