We need a whole new kind of medicine.

CNN: U.S. manages disease, not health

They say Abilify is a new kind of schizophrenia medicine--only the third such advance in more than 50 years.

FORBES: Bristol's Brightest Day, Blackest Night

The American College of Cardiology panel and two editorials in The New England Journal of Medicine recommended sidelining use of Zetia, a kind of cholesterol drug that works differently from statins, and Vytorin, a combo pill of Zetia and the statin Zocor.

FORBES: Another Blow For Schering And Merck

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to two researchers who discovered a new kind of gene, upending dogma about how biology works and leading to a new technology that has been embraced by drug companies and has led to the formation of two publicly traded biotech firms.

FORBES: Biotech Breakthrough Wins Nobel Prize