' (nyse: AVE - news - people ) Allegra, as first-line treatment for allergies.
Buying Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) gives Sanofi plenty of marketing heft.
Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) seems to be talking to other drug giants as well.
Take, for instance, Aventis ' (nyse: AVE - news - people ) Lantus, a form of insulin that lasts all day.
The currently approved treatment, Aventis ' (nyse: AVE - news - people ) Taxotere, shrinks cancer about 7% of the time.
This work led to Allegra, an antihistamine that is a blockbuster for Strasbourg, France-based Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
CropScience was formed from the merger of Bayer's existing agrochemicals business with the one it bought from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
The allergy pill Allegra, from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), might stop your runny nose but it can also give you a backache.
The study followed 928 breast cancer patients who were being treated with Taxotere, a chemotherapy treatment made by Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
As precedent he cites the example of Seldane, an antihistamine developed by Hoechst Marion Roussel (now Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people )) to treat hay fever.
Some have speculated that the need for heft to market rimonabant is helping to drive its hostile bid for neighbor Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Smallpox can be prevented with decades-old vaccines like those donated by Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), but many patients are likely to experience dangerous side effects.
When Genta (nasdaq: GNTA - news - people ) signed a large deal with Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), its shares continued to fall.
Milan-based Biosearch Italia was once one of the main centers for antibiotic research at Hoechst-Marion-Roussel, a drug firm that is now part of Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
In August, Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), which had originally developed pagoclone and had licensed it to Indevus, decided not to exercise its option to develop the drug.
Merck's other bit of good tidings this week was that its AIDS vaccine seems to work better when combined with another HIV inoculation form Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
It took the better part of a decade for dangerous heart side effects to show up in Seldane, an antihistamine made by the company that became Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
The players include big drug companies like Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people), American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people) and Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people).
Genta's melanoma, leukemia and myeloma trials are all nearing completion, and the company along with partner Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) hope to file for approval of Genasense in the summer of next year.
Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people), Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people), Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people) and AstraZeneca have all rid themselves of their crop-science divisions.
Since Exubera, being co-developed with Pfizer and Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), is expected to be a blockbuster, Nektar's share of sales would be huge if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the drug.
Experiments in monkeys suggest that an AIDS vaccine developed by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) may work better when a vaccine invented by Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) is used as a booster shot.
Now, after years of fruitless efforts to deal with taxanes' shortcomings, Bristol-Myers (nyse: BMY - news - people ) and rival Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) (which produces another taxane called docetaxal, under the name Taxotere) each have promising new variations.
Among the chemotherapy medicines that bind to tubulin are Taxol, the drug that built Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) as an oncology company, and Taxotere, the current lynchpin in Aventis ' (nyse: AVE - news - people ) anti-cancer stable.
The next closest antisense drug to being approved for sale is Genasense, a cancer drug invented by Genta (nasdaq: GNTA - news - people ) that is being co-developed with Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) as part of a deal signed a year ago.
Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) issued a statement this morning confirming that it has done detailed feasibility studies on a white knight bid for Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), which is the target of a hostile takeover by Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ).
All that is known right now, he wrote, is that Tarceva works better than a sugar pill given with supportive care--meaning patients don't get other cancer drugs they otherwise might receive, such as Taxotere from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) and Iressa, a similar pill from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ).
Although the Food and Drug Administration recently did approve Singulair as an allergy pill, the drug must still compete with prescription medicines from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), as well as what could be a slew of cheap, generic over-the-counter versions of Schering-Plough 's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Claritin.
Even if bad vibes from the French government keep Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) from bidding for French rival Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), it still remains a firm to watch for investors in American drug companies such as Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), who compete directly with the Swiss giant.
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