John Amatruda, head of Merck's diabetes clinical research, says his firm is "extremely excited" about how its Januvia pill stacks up against existing agents.
Some 11% of sexually active women had used the morning-after pill, up from 4% in 2002, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The results do show that people can't rely on a pill to make up for a bad diet, she said.
For years before Vioxx was yanked from the market in late 2004, Merck poured millions of dollars into testing a follow-up pill called Arcoxia.
The vaccine must be customized to recognize each individual patient's cancer--a much more laborious process than simply giving a pill or setting up an intravenous drip.
Ultimately the choice between cognitive behavioral therapy and drugs comes down to: Do you want to take extra time to talk to someone or pop a pill and put up with its side effects?
For years before Vioxx was yanked from the market in late 2004, Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) poured millions of dollars into testing a follow-up pill called Arcoxia.
The former horse pill salesman has built up a telecom empire with 10.75 million subscribers.
Dr Tonge said many women did not know that the pill could work for up to 72 hours after sex, not just the morning after.
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For the first time, Merck and Schering-Plough have released details of how a key study of their cholesterol drug Zetia, also used in the combo pill Vytorin, wound up being delayed for more than a year after its findings were originally expected.
Cojuangco initially put up a poison pill making it expensive for anyone to attempt a takeover, but according to one source, Jimenez convinced Pangilinan to up the ante for PLDT and persuaded Cojuangco that he was getting a good price for the family's shares.
AstraZeneca's scientists had to come up with a pill that could carry the compound safely through the body.
"When you come down off the pill, you're back to reality again and you're really depressed and your whole body hurts and you want to do that pill again to get back up there, " Moore told the committee.
Separately, Vivus has now succumbed to shareholder pressure and begun holdings talks with large drugmakers to market its Qsymia diet pill, which has so far failed to live up to its promise, despite becoming the first commercially available prescription diet pill to be approved by the FDA in more than a decade.
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Look for plenty of pill-pitching athletes to pop up in ads during this year's Super Bowl.
Every day of delay is another one in which AstraZeneca can switch patients to its new "purple pill, " a follow-up called Nexium.
Dr Nitschke's associates are studying the substance in the laboratory to see how it might be worked up as a suicide pill.
So the idea is to use a second pill to get the CFTR protein up to the cell surface so Kalydeco can work.
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It worked much less well for Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), where Clarinex, a new allergy pill, has failed to make up for the loss of Claritin, the old version.
We still think this could end up being a tough pill to swallow for a lot of power users who've graduated to SlingPlayer Mobile, but with simpler devices like the Samsung Access (pictured) in the mix for Mobile TV, who knows -- they might find a target demographic yet.
Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.
On nights when they have different bedtimes, Ms. Ellis may take an Ambien sleeping pill, which keeps her from waking up when Mr. Ellis comes to bed later.
But while it is easy to compare the efficacy of, say, Viagra, with that of a dummy pill, it is harder to come up with a placebo to prove the worth of such things as minor surgery.
Knowles halted that project and instructed his team to come up with a once-daily pill.
Her prescription is to "fess up" and take the bitter pill that is cost evaluation.
Other drug firms are rumored to have passed on licensing the drug because they did not want to go up against Pfizer with a weaker pill.
AstraZeneca has tied up with biotech boutique Atherogenics on a pill to reduce inflammation in the arteries, another way of cutting the risk of heart attacks.
For industrialists paying reluctantly to clean up their act, that must be a bitter pill.
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