As the leading pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark extends mail order pharmacy services, claims processing, and prescription plan design and administration on behalf of plan sponsors, which include corporations, insurance providers and the government.

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Tularik announced after Monday's close that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has green-lighted the design of what could be the final clinical tests for the South San Francisco-based biotech's liver cancer drug, T67.

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Yesterday, the U. S. Supreme Court recognized that Congress meant what it said, holding that the Vaccine Act expressly preempts all state-law products liability suits challenging the design of widely administered childhood vaccines, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already determined to be safe and effective.

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The results will need to confirmed in a much bigger clinical trial, the design of which Acorda will need to discuss with the Food and Drug Administration.

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Mutual and the Obama administration want that protection extended to the design of the drug, since the generic is an exact copy of the brand-name drug that has already been approved by the federal government.

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Now the talk is of a grander design, with the Obama administration hoping to put development aid on a par with defence and diplomacy.

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The results in that small group could allow Celldex to design a future trial that could, on its own, lead to accelerated approval with the Food and Drug Administration for the drug, known as CDX-011 or glembatumumab vedotin.

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