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  • Tenn. hospital treats drug-dependent babies Monday, 13 May 2013 | 8:40 AM ET

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-- He's less than two weeks old, but he shows the telltale signs of a baby agitated and in pain: an open sore on his chin where he's rubbed the skin raw, along with a scratch on his left check.

  • Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra medication

    In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer told The Associated Press that the drugmaker will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra directly to patients on its website.

  • President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico on Thursday for a visit he hopes will draw attention to Mexico's emerging economic might, even as worries about containing drug-trafficking and related violence remain an inescapable subtext.

  • **MERCK& CO INC, $45.95, down 2 pct. **TITAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC, $0.46, down 73 pct. **NEUTRAL TANDEM INC, $4.57, up 53 pct.

  • rose 0.17 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.58 percent. **APPLE INC, $442,5, up 3 pct. **TRANSITION THERAPEUTICS INC, $3.27, up 45 pct.

  • LOS ANGELES, April 29- An attorney for the concert promotion company AEG Live warned jurors they would see a very different view of the charismatic Michael Jackson as the company seeks to prove it was not liable for the pop star's death.

  • UPDATE 3-U.S. country singer George Jones dead at 81 Friday, 26 Apr 2013 | 2:01 PM ET

    WASHINGTON, April 26- George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at age 81, his spokesman said.

  • UPDATE 2-U.S. country singer George Jones dead at 81 Friday, 26 Apr 2013 | 11:10 AM ET

    WASHINGTON, April 26- George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at the age of 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Window Up Above," died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

  • WASHINGTON, April 23- The United States targeted two Lebanese money exchange houses, accusing them on Tuesday of helping launder funds for an international drug trafficking ring and financing the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

  • *Embraer to deliver six Super Tucanos and command center. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9- Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA has sold six Super Tucano light attack planes to Guatemala to bolster its fight against drug trafficking, according to a senior executive.

  • High Court Weighs Drug Companies' Generics Policy Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 9:49 AM ET

    Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceuticals from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.

  • Roger Parloff, Fortune senior editor, says businesses are sprouting in states like Colorado and Washington, where selling cannabis is now legal.

  • WASHINGTON, March 5- The United States should revive a crackdown on drug trafficking, counterfeiting and other illicit business by North Korea that was succeeding before it was dropped to facilitate a nuclear deal with Pyongyang, architects of that policy said on Tuesday.

  • *FDA rejects Reckitt petition on heroin addiction drug packaging. *FDA approves two generic versions of Reckitt's Suboxone. *FDA refers Reckitt to competition regulator.

  • *Investors eye win for pro-reform party in Italy. LONDON, Feb 25- Italian banks were among the top risers in Europe around midday on Monday as investors started to bet on a centre-left victory a closely-fought general election, seen as crucial to efforts to dig the euro zone out of crisis.

  • Bernanke's Challenge: Prime Markets for End of QE Sunday, 24 Feb 2013 | 1:08 PM ET
    Ben Bernanke

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is preparing for a most sensitive task: telling jittery investors who have grown accustomed to the U.S. central bank's ultra-easy monetary policies that things will eventually have to change.

  • Big—And Even Bizarre—Busts and Seizures Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 4:59 PM ET

    What are some of the major seizures and big busts law enforcers have made in recent years? Click on to see 10 cases that were record-breaking, major, or even bizarre in nature.

  • FACTBOX-Diet pills' weighty safety issues Thursday, 7 Feb 2013 | 12:06 AM ET

    It was sold legally before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gained the power to regulate drugs in 1938.. It was widely used to treat weight-loss during World War Two and afterwards, but was eventually banned as an obesity medication by the FDA in 1979..

  • Roche CEO: Emerging Markets Key to Momentum Wednesday, 30 Jan 2013 | 1:11 AM ET

    Emerging markets, and in particular, Latin America will be the drivers for continued growth, Swiss drug maker Roche told CNBC, even as the company faces price pressures elsewhere.

  • Eli Lilly will be "very challenged" by the loss of exclusivity on several blockbuster drugs, CEO John Lechleiter told CNBC on Tuesday, but added the company can manage its growth in response.