Merck and Sanofi team up again to keep animals healthy.

MINNEAPOLIS----Medtronic, Inc., , today announced William A. Hawkins, chairman and CEO, recently received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. As part of the award, the plenary lecture he delivered to the organization was published in the March 2010 edition of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

How to profit from the big spenders of the boomer generation.

Some tough talk from President Obama on health-care reform appeared to take a bite out of health-care stocks in Monday afternoon trades, as the sector's S&P companies dropped nearly half a percentage point.

The animal health division of drugmaker Eli Lilly will acquire the rights to a portfolio of Pfizer products in Europe, including vaccines and feed additives.

Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Company , today announced that Lilly has signed an agreement to acquire the European rights to a portfolio of certain Pfizer Animal Health products.  The products, including vaccines, parasiticides and feed additives, are used in both the production animal and companion animal markets.

Research by The Nielsen Co. shows that in 2009, drugmakers spent the most money on ads directly targeting consumers for these prescription medicines: