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FDA declines to approve Orexigen diet drug

(AP) -- Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. shares plunged nearly 75 percent in pre-market trading Tuesday after U.S. health officials declined to approve the experimental weight loss pill Contrave.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Court won't stop hormone replacement lawsuits

(AP) -- The Supreme Court won't reconsider a decision to reinstate more than 100 lawsuits filed by women who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pfizer will buy King Pharmaceuticals for $3.6B

(AP) -- Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday it will buy a company specializing in pain drugs in a $3.6 billion deal meant to shore up the portfolio of the world's largest drug company.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel target for existing drug may improve success of radiation therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a new drug target that could improve the effectiveness of radiation for hard-to-treat cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms

The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

FDA panel rejects experimental weight loss pill

(AP) -- A panel of federal health experts dealt a surprising setback Thursday to a highly anticipated anti-obesity pill from Vivus Inc., saying the drug's side effects outweigh its ability to help patients lose weight.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

FDA to review first of 3 new weight loss drugs

(AP) -- Dieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US Supreme Court to consider vaccination lawsuit

The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the parents of a child who suffered serious health problems after being vaccinated can sue a pharmaceutical company for compensation.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Pneumococcal vaccine offers protection to HIV-infected African adults in clinical trial

A clinical trial of a vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis has shown that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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