They believe that the discovery could help in the development of new drugs to treat the condition.
"They continued to execute on their short-term business model, " of controlling costs while making progress on the development of new drugs.
Furthermore, to encourage the development of new drugs, we need to rethink the way global markets and governance work in this area and encourage international collaboration.
According to one of the researchers involved, Professor Tony Monaco of Oxford University, this could help in the development of new drugs to ease some of the symptoms of autism, particularly in severely ill patients.
This has not been matched by progress in the development or distribution of new drugs.
The results are likely to have important implications for the marketing, development and invention of new drugs to treat cardiovascular disease, America's number-one killer.
Jenner cautions that it's still early in the development of the new hepatitis C drugs and that the stock price of companies working on them will likely be extremely volatile for the next two years.
And yet, despite companies pouring billions and billions more each year into research and development, the number of new drugs approved annually has held roughly constant for over fifty years.
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For her pioneering approach to biomaterial development to regenerate damaged nerve tissue and for her development of a new method to deliver drugs to the spinal cord and brain.
The giants are starved for new blockbusters--last year had the fewest new drug approvals in two decades--and one-third or so of new products in development are protein drugs.
"This development should enable us to explore the potential of new drugs and the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, " he said.
The research should also help speed the development of other gene-targeted drugs for cancer, says Haber, senior author on the New England Journal of Medicine paper and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
The industry fees will also be used to advance the development of drugs for rare diseases, increase communications with small or new companies, and boost standardized electronic data usage to improve quality and effectiveness.
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The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.
Furthermore, the FDA granted approval for these two new drugs quickly, which also reduced the costs of drug development.
This month, we have added seven new experimental drugs to our watch list of New Drugs to Watch, a sampling of the most interesting medicines in development at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
The earliest new drugs are likely to be available is 2015, with considerable excitement surrounding the possible development of malaria vaccines.
In a risky gambit to speed the development of breakthroughs, the South San Francisco biotech firm is planning to test combinations of multiple experimental cancer drugs simultaneously in new tumor types, instead of waiting for each one to be approved separately before combining them.
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