The single biggest issue for the industry are the failed Ph3 programmes for drug classes like CETP inhibitors and anti-amyloids.

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Pfizer and Bristol-Myers are testing a competing drug, in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest new drug classes in years.

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Kirk became very rich making small improvements to old drug classes.

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While it is far from certain the drugs will help cancer patients, the new concept is generating interest because it would represent a completely new type of therapy that works in a very different way from existing drug classes.

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Ironically, a study by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development economist Joseph DiMasi and Duke University professor Henry Grabowski found that between 1990 and 2005, 47% of oncology drugs received accelerated approval compared with 13% for all other drug classes.

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It provides guests with everything from drug treatment to mental health services to classes in the great books to pre-school for young children.

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Settling this debate once and for all will require large human trials to prove that lowering inflammation with a drug will reduce the frequency of heart attacks beyond what can be accomplished with existing classes of drugs (see: " Inflammation Is Key In Heart Attacks").

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The report mentioned parenting classes, improving maternal nutrition and targeting children born in households with unhealthy habits, such as smoking, drug use and alcohol abuse.

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