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AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, Novo Nordisk, Abbott Laboratories and TAP Gain Ground As Novartis Holds
• Drug News • Jul 11 05
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. retained its first-place ranking while several other pharmaceutical companies achieved higher ratings in meeting the overall needs of managed care pharmacy…
Splitting Zocor tablets saves millions
• Drug News • Jul 07 05
Halving high-dose Zocor tablets leads to significant cost savings without reducing the drug’s cholesterol-lowering effects, researchers report.
Dr. David Parra from Department of…
Canada health panel says Vioxx pain drug safe enough
• Drug News • Jul 07 05
A Canadian expert advisory panel recommended on Thursday that Merck & Co. Inc.‘s arthritis drug Vioxx be allowed back on the market despite the…
Priority on Propriety in Viagra Veto
• Drug News • Jul 03 05
Its no secret that Medicare is hurtling toward insolvency. The government-funded program cant even afford to pay for some life- saving drugs and others…
‘Universal’ group B Streptococcus vaccine created
• Drug News • Jun 30 05
Group B Streptococcus - commonly called GBS - is a disease-causing bug that comes in a number of variations, which has made it difficult…
Tests compare drugs for hepatitis
• Drug News • Jun 30 05
Swiss drugmaker Roche’s brand of interferon can help control Hepatitis B, a potentially deadly liver infection, better than a competitor’s drug can,…
Canada to control bulk sales of drugs to U.S.
• Drug News • Jun 29 05
Canada will draw up legislation giving it the right to ban the bulk sale of prescription drugs and other medicines to the United…
UK to save on generic medicines bill
• Drug News • Jun 29 05
The British government expects to save about 300 million pounds ($545 million) a year on the cost of generic medicines to the state…
Illegal drug trade a world force
• Drug News • Jun 29 05
Annual worldwide illegal drug sales are greater than the gross domestic product of 88 percent of the countries in the world, the U.N. said…
Measures how to clamp down on Internet pharmacies
• Drug News • Jun 23 05
Canada will soon announce measures to clamp down on Internet pharmacies that send cheap medicine to the United States, often without Canadian doctors seeing…
Vivus says impotence drug data good
• Drug News • Jun 23 05
An experimental impotence drug being developed by Vivus Inc. showed promise in promoting sex in a mid-stage clinical trial, the company said on Thursday,…
NitroMed drug cut deaths in blacks
• Drug News • Jun 16 05
NitroMed Inc.‘s heart-failure drug for African-Americans reduced deaths and hospitalizations and its side effects were similar to a placebo’s, U.S. regulatory staff…
Viagra helps childhood lung condition
• Drug News • Jun 14 05
The impotence drug Viagra, originally developed to treat Heart disease, may help children with a serious heart-lung condition - pulmonary arterial hypertension…
UK doctors highlight over-the-counter drug risks
• Drug News • Jun 14 05
Patients and health professionals need more training about the potential risks of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, which are being taken in increasing quantities, British doctors…
Tracleer helps PAH patients with scleroderma
• Drug News • Jun 11 05
Tracleer has shown positive long-term impact in treating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), the drug-maker…
More research needed on painkiller safety
• Drug News • Jun 10 05
British scientists called for more research on Friday into the safety of painkillers after finding more evidence some may increase the risk of…
Viagra ingredient approved for hypertension
• Drug News • Jun 06 05
Pfizer Inc. on Monday said U.S. regulators approved the active ingredient in its impotence drug Viagra to treat pulmonary hypertension.
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With Vioxx gone, pain drug prices jump
• Drug News • Jun 05 05
Prices for dozens of prescription painkillers have jumped by as much as 15 percent since Merck & Co. Inc. pulled its once-popular arthritis drug…
Addictive drugs given to US sleep deprived
• Drug News • Jun 02 05
Doctors prescribe potentially addictive drugs nearly half the time when patients seek help with a Sleep Disorder, according to a new study…
No cure, no pay may be new model for selling drugs
• Drug News • May 28 05
Not satisfied with your prescription medicine? Then demand a refund.
Unlikely as it may sound, money-back guarantees could be the next big thing…
New drug for Crohn’s disease gives mixed results
• Drug News • May 26 05
A drug called Leukine, made by Berlex, is apparently no better than an inert placebo in improving active Crohn’s Disease, but the drug…
Heart drug reduces colon cancer risk
• Drug News • May 26 05
People taking statin drugs to stem the progression of Heart disease may be getting an extra benefit: protection from Colorectal cancer, researchers said on…
Boehringer, Pfizer say smoker’s lung drug helps
• Drug News • May 24 05
A smoker’s lung treatment sold by Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim and U.S. drugmaker Pfizer was found to have improved the quality of…
Roche in talks with WHO to stockpile Tamiflu
• Drug News • May 24 05
Swiss pharmaceuticals group Roche is in talks with the World Health Organization (WHO) to donate a stockpile of its anti-avian flu drug Tamiflu, the…
Vaccine for cervical cancer virus promising
• Drug News • May 19 05
An experimental vaccine designed to protect against the virus responsible for Cervical cancer performed well in a late-stage trial, drugmaker Merck & Co., said…