Even with one of the industry's better drug pipelines, Eli Lilly can't win the blockbuster game.
But Dr. Jansen says that for some, diuretics may be a better drug choice.
Bernstein recently upgraded Bristol-Myers to an "outperform, " arguing that the market is ignoring one of the industry's better drug pipelines.
In September Schering announced plans for a 2, 880-person trial to prove once and for all that Peg-Intron is a better drug.
Von Hoff, who was an early proponent of testing the drug, says that he was convinced that Abraxane might be a better drug when it helped patients who had not responded to Taxol.
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If Vertex wins, it may not be because it had a better drug so much as that it found a smarter way to study it, in a way that will make it easier for patients to take.
In the heated race to develop new hepatitis C drugs that boost the cure rate, Wall Street thinks Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a slightly better drug than a rival entry from Merck, and thus will garner the large majority of sales.
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In 1899, Percy Julian, the inventor associated with the production of synthetic progesterone, advances in the production of cortisone, a better drug for the treatment of glaucoma and a chemical foam used to fight petroleum fires, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Furthermore, you should realise that tighter drug laws will not deter smuggling but instead will breed tougher, nastier and better organised drug networks as has been the case with the South American cartels that manufacture and export cocaine.
The longstanding effort to reduce the nation's drug problem would be better served if geographic drug-use patterns were better understood, says David M.
In the near-term, that could allow pharmaceutical researchers to better study drug interaction, and one day such tissue might be implanted in a live person, allowing treatment or diagnosis.
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The scientists had a way of turning a well known and widely used drug, niacin, into an even better and safer drug, thereby expanding its usage.
Bristol, not Pfizer, funded that study, which backfired (see: " Bristol Study Proves Rival Drug Better").
That's why it's so important to have faster and better diagnostics and drug delivery.
Gillings argued that his way of handling this is better than what drug companies do.
Other critics said the money would be better spent on drug treatment efforts at home, to cut into the demand that fuels the drug trade.
Friend says that he is cognizant of the fact that he's trailing Pfizer, and that he is investing in IGF-1 only because he thinks Merck can develop a market for the drug by having a better scientific understanding of how the drug works--and testing it in populations, and as part of drug combinations, where it will be most effective.
To that end, the FDA will insist on better error reporting from drug companies.
Sales were up 11% and earnings per share were up 15%--better than most stateside drug companies have managed.
The question to ask as the data comes out: will this drug work better than Avastin in other areas?
But while better education may reduce drug use in the future, in the meantime the problem is still growing.
's profits and its sales drop, the swine flu pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for the drug company.
They call for the FDA to take action and complain that bigger and better studies of the drug should have been completed earlier.
Some doctors may ignore the result, arguing that cholesterol is a better measure of a drug's effectiveness than the measurement of plaque buildup.
The giant trial showed that was somewhat better than the standard drug warfarin in preventing strokes, at least among those who stayed on the drugs during the whole trial period.
We must do a better job of identifying drug-resistant TB in these countries, giving patients the right treatment, and limiting the spread of this disease that can be passed through a simple cough.
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Among his suggestions: better methods for tracking drug side effects, substantially less direct-to-consumer advertising, and giving the FDA the legislative authority to force drugmakers to conduct trials that fully examine the risks of their medicines.
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