Manhattan Research, a leading provider of access to physician and consumer opinions on the global healthcare market, reveals today the top pharmaceutical web sites visited by European consumers. Bayer moves into the top spot from last year's ranking at #2. Roche and Pfizer take this year's second and third spots respectively.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has posted on its Web site its first quarterly report that lists certain drugs that are being evaluated for potential safety issues. The drugs have been identified based on a review of reports in FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS).

The best place to seek novel compounds for pharmaceutical drugs, alternative energy sources, and a host of industrial applications, is within natural systems that have evolved over millions of years. Scientists now realise that the precise molecular arrangements within natural pathways in organisms have been highly tuned for specific processes and provide both compounds that can be exploited directly and vital information over how to synthesise new products by mimicking biochemical processes.

One of pharmacology's oldest underlying principles looks set to be overturned. New findings from chemists at the UK's University of Warwick appear to contradict the century-old 'Overton's Rule', which sets out how fast chemicals, such as medicines, can cross cell walls. The findings have major implications for drug development.

The New England Journal of Medicine and American Family Physician rank as top online medical journals among U.S. primary care physicians, according to the just released ePharma Physician® v8.0 study by pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research.

Abcam, a bioscience company specialising in the supply of antibodies from a web-based catalogue and Transinsight, a specialist in semantic search technologies announced a collaboration in the field of protein information quality control using bioinformatics workflows.

Physicians report that they will shift a significant amount of time currently devoted to offline professional sources to their online counterparts in the coming years, according to the just released ePharma Physician® study by pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research.