Both biotech and pharmaceutical firms might argue that the next set of breakthrough drugs are just around the corner.
At the time the genome was being sequenced, and researchers promised it would quickly lead to huge numbers of breakthrough drugs.
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Two breakthrough drugs from Genentech offer hope for patients with the more severe "wet" form (which is more common in Asia than in the U.S.) of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.
Two breakthrough drugs from Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) offer hope for patients with the more severe "wet" form of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.
Two breakthrough drugs from Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) offer hope for patients with the more severe "wet" form (which is more common in Asia than in the U.S.) of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.
Meanwhile, the controversy over the incredibly high cost of breakthrough cancer drugs continues to heat up.
Breakthrough obesity drugs often leave dashed hopes and lawsuits in their wake.
Many biotech watchers expect the hepatitis C market to follow a similar trajectory as the HIV drug market, where breakthrough first-generation drugs were relatively quickly supplanted by more convenient second-generation versions with fewer side effects.
This designer insulin is popular and convenient, but hardly a medical breakthrough like the kinds of unique rare disease drugs Genzyme would bring to the table.
The other drugs stabilize vision, which was a major breakthrough at the time.
Drugs that increase it could be the next breakthrough in sleeping pills.
Novartis adopted such a breakthrough- focused model in the 1990s and has launched 17 drugs in the past decade, 7 more than any other drugmaker.
Better yet, it works differently than existing drugs--leading some researchers to call it a breakthrough.
Yet they take up to 90% of sales away from the comparable brand-name drugs whose makers risked the time and money to bring breakthrough treatments to market.
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Zetia was, in fact, a breakthrough for patients who can't get their cholesterol low enough with other drugs.
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