But these are unusual times for drug development and its regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It plummeted 79% after the Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly rejected its lung drug.
Merck says a long-awaited arthritis drug, Arcoxia, will be filed with the Food and Drug Administration.
Instead of pitting one drug against another, both ACCORD and ADVANCE used drug combos.
They include acne drug Sotret, epilepsy and nerve pain drug gabapentin, and antibiotic ciprofloxacin.
But with drug approvals down, drug companies are more willing to put money into niches.
Central America has the misfortune of being placed between drug supply and drug demand.
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The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing one new medication, bedaquiline, to treat drug-resistant TB.
Only about 5% of convicted drug users are under the jurisdiction of drug courts.
It appears to restore the effectiveness of Genentech 's Herceptin drug after that drug has failed.
After two decades of trying, drug firms have no replacement for the oft-used breast cancer drug.
The purchase of DuPont's drug division strengthened Bristol-Myers Squibb's already thriving AIDS drug franchise.
The drug had been delayed as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked for more data.
Pfizer's top seller, the cholesterol drug Lipitor, is the best-selling drug in the world.
Drug patents should last fifteen years from the day a new drug is approved.
The other drug in Phase 3 trials is Viread--Gilead's biggest-selling drug to treat HIV.
For instance, Synthroid, a thyroid drug, was the third-most prescribed drug in the U.S. in 1999.
The best colon cancer drug out there is a 50-year-old drug called 5FU, Saltz says.
That infusion allows him to take only one anti-rejection drug instead of the usual three-drug cocktail.
The only drug not in veterinary records was this fourth drug present in only trace amounts.
No surprise there: the European prescription-drug market accounts for a third of worldwide drug sales.
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Bristol sells this Sanofi-invented drug, giving a significant share of profits back to the French drug giant.
Then researchers at other drug companies will start looking for new drug targets to make further progress.
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Those include creating a drug investigative unit and eliminating advance notice of drug-testing players at the ballparks.
He says he plans to file for new drug applications for two of its late-stage drug candidates.
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Bristol expects to file three new drug applications with the Food and Drug Administration within a year.
Lilly and ICOS have already filed their impotence drug, Cialis, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Food and Drug Administration has a Sept. 26 deadline to make a decision on the drug.
With drug after drug, in population after population, statins reduced the rates of heart attacks and strokes.
The EMCDDA wants a more coordinated approach to gathering drug information and strategies to reduce drug problems.
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