The government closed U.S. borders Tuesday to more than 30 generic drugs, including popular antibiotics and cholesterol medicines, made by India's biggest pharmaceutical company, citing poor quality in two of its factories. ...more

September 17, 2008

but it's traveling in the slow lane. High oil prices have accomplished what years of pleas from environmentalists and energy-security hawks could not: forcing the world's major automakers to refocus their engineers and their capital on devising mass-market alternatives to century-old petroleum-fueled engine technology. ...more

September 16, 2008

Federal regulators have ordered medical device maker Stryker Corp. to fix a host of long-standing problems in its manufacturing of hip replacement parts that have triggered multiple patient complaints and forced some to have follow-up surgeries. Stryker shares fell almost 2 percent. ...more

January 17, 2008