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Bristol-Myers Squibb, often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation. Squibb was founded in 1858 by Edward Robinson Squibb in Brooklyn, New York, while Bristol-Myers was founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, New York (both were graduates of Hamilton College). - Source: Wikipedia
Health officials are warning of the rise of the "superbugs" — bacteria and other pathogens that cannot be killed by modern medicine.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating drug maker Sanofi's disclosures to the Food and Drug Administration about different responses to its blockbuster blood thinner Plavix.
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has scrapped a potential hepatitis C treatment after a patient participating in a test of the drug died of heart failure.
If brand-name prescription medicines cost you as little as generic pills, which would you choose? A few drugmakers are betting Americans will stick with the name they know _ and can pronounce.
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is suspending a midstage study of a potential hepatitis C treatment because of a serious patient safety issue.
Consolidated Edison closed walk-in centers, suspended meter readings and limited work on major construction projects in New York on Sunday after contract talks between the utility and its unionized workers broke down in the middle of a wave of extremely hot weather.
Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old from Maryland, just won the world's largest high school science competition by creating a new test for pancreatic cancer, one of the nastiest and most lethal forms of the disease.
JONAH GOLDBERG For release 5/25/12 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TMS Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, tmscustomerservicetribune.com.) (PHOTO: One headshot accompanies this column. FILE NAME: 20101014hdjgo-a.jpg;) Big business gets the Hollywood treatment
An independent British medical watchdog says the first treatment proven to help people with the deadliest form of skin cancer is too expensive to be used by the U.K.'s health care system, a recommendation critics called a potential death sentence.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind drug to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer by targeting a particular genetic mutation found in about half of patients.
Wealthy biotech founder John Crowley, whose life was the basis for the 2010 movie "Extraordinary Measures," is seriously considering a challenge to Democratic New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez in 2012, according to a friend of Crowley.
Walk more, and not only burn off calories, but also lessen the chance of becoming diabetic, a new study says.
In a story Sept. 20 about studies of a brand of insulin, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Sanofi-Aventis' drug Lantus is co-marketed by drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb. The drug is marketed by Sanofi-Aventis alone.
