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Biotech drug developer CV Therapeutics Inc. said Wednesday that it will no longer help sell the high blood pressure medication Aceon with Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Cambridge drug company, signed a deal that will allow another company to develop and take its cancer treatments to market.
Cholesterol lowering drugs known as statins can increase the life expectancy of elderly patients by an average of two years, a new study by a doctor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences claims.
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will not hear a case brought by a generic pharmaceutical company that sought to invalidate a patent held by Pfizer Inc. for its blockbuster anti-depression drug Zoloft.
The FDA said Sept. 29 that babies exposed during the first three months of pregnancy to the drug Lamictal, which is used to treat epileptic seizures and bipolar disorder, may have a higher chance of being born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
The FDA issued an approvable letter for New River Pharmaceuticals' and Shire Pharmaceuticals' attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug NRP104, but without the initial classification some analysts believed would give it a significant edge over competitors.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) plans to use a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on drug industry R&D to get additional federal funding for comparative drug trials, a congressional source says.