Pfizer, which always kept a presence in developing new germ-killing drugs, saw its Zyvox become a fast-growing drug in recent years.
In June, he expanded the definition of "executive privilege" to deny House Republicans documents for their probe into the botched Fast and Furious drug-war operation, making a mockery of Congress's oversight responsibilities.
Already, the drug has fast-track designation for approval for certain colorectal cancer patients who have already exhausted other options.
Critics of the drug were fast to leap on the results as more evidence that Vytorin may be no better than cheap generic pills.
's fast-growing biotech drug, a treatment for patients with dangerously weak hearts, may increase the risk of death by 80%, according to a study.
Before the ASH meeting began, Raymond Warrell , chief executive of Genta (nasdaq: GNTA - news - people ), commented that he thinks Velcade is one of the rare cases where fast-tracking a drug makes sense.
Existing cancer-drug therapies kill fast-growing cells, disrupt crucial molecular signals or attack tumor supply lines.
Technical tinkering, such as changing the formulation of a drug from a fast-acting pill to a slow-release system, is a common tactic.
Under pressure to reduce research costs and win fast-track approvals, drug companies do 43% of their clinical trials abroad, up from 14% ten years ago.
The company got a big shot in the arm on July 12, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status to the Canadian company's Fluviral flu vaccine.
Bristol-Myers executives are probably hoping the drug can repeat the super-fast approval managed by Gleevec, a Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people) drug for chronic myelogenous leukemia that was approved earlier this year in record time.
Furthermore, a cancer drug acquired with the purchase of tiny Aton Pharma might have a fast track to approval, and Vytorin, the cholesterol drug Merck sells with Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), could still be a blockbuster.
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration granted it fast-track status, which should make it easier for Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) to file all the paperwork necessary for approval.
Pope says Glaxo has taken only token steps to embrace generic drugs but no European drug maker has pushed into fast-growing generics like Novartis has.
It is possible that the drug will work well enough and fast enough to be used in surgery.
Latin America has long since ceased to be merely a drug producer, with consumption rising fast in recent years.
It delivers the antipsychotic drug loxapine through inhalation, providing fast relief for schizophrenia and bipolar patients in a state of agitation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted BioCryst "fast track" status for its Peramivir trials because it may work in treating avian influenza.
That targeted cancer therapy, which helped most patients who took it for a rare leukemia, made it through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a lightning-fast three months.
The Food and Drug Administration has given record-fast approvals to Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec and Millennium 's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade based on relatively early-stage data in these diseases.
Many analysts, including Jami Rubin at Goldman Sachs and, more recently, Timothy Anderson at Bernstein Research, have argued that Pfizer could split up the company in such a way that the remaining drug division could be a small, fast-growing pharma.
The Food and Drug Administration has been approving new drugs at a fast clip.
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The government's watchdog NICE says patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), an erratic and sometimes fast heartbeat, can now have rivaroxiban instead of the existing drug warfarin.
Their hopes that genomic information and other new tools would dramatically improve drug making are justified, but certainly not as fast or as cheaply as they once expected.
But if a significant minority of doctors find the ENHANCE results unconvincing, the drug makers will face strong headwinds, and a fast-growing brand could not only stagnate but also shrink.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, talked about the challenges ahead in pushing through presidential "fast track" trade promotion authority and in crafting a prescription drug benefit for Medicare, something GOP pollsters say is essential to complete before the next election.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched the Fast and Furious program in Arizona to track weapons purchases by Mexican drug cartels.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched Operation Fast and Furious out of Arizona to track weapon purchases by Mexican drug cartels.
He has designed a drug, telavancin, that may work three times as fast as vancomycin, which can take nine days or more to quell a staph infection.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched "Operation Fast and Furious" out of Arizona to track weapons purchases by Mexican drug cartels.
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