Its stock is in the dumps, and its main drug, Lipitor, will face patent expiration in 2011.
People still think of it as Pfizer 's main drug, when in fact it's a relatively modest seller.
People still think of it as Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) main drug, when in fact it's a relatively modest seller.
Tiny biotech AtheroGenics presented new data on its main drug, a pill to combat artery inflammation, that gave some researchers hope the medicine may someday prove effective and make it to market.
The stock dropped after Cephalon announced that a new study had shown that its main drug, a compound called modafinil sold under the brand name Provigil, was not effective in treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The main contrast drug used for MRI is a silvery-white element called gadolinium.
The main objection to the drug, he says, is that it's too good to be true.
AstraZeneca's main patent covering the drug expired last October, but the company has managed to keep copycats at bay by suing generic firms for infringing patents, not on the medicine, but on the way it is assembled into a pill.
That means, among other things, that Celgene can't market the drug for its main use.
Sales of the drug for its main indication, colon cancer, have stalled--partly due to a decision to stop a 2001 study that would have compared the drug to a placebo on top of chemotherapy.
In 2000 Bristol-Myers won a four-month extension for its BuSpar anxiety drug by obtaining--only hours before the main patent was to expire--a new patent on how the drug is metabolized.
Its main competitor as a heart attack drug is torcetrapib, a drug from Pfizer that raises good cholesterol, potentially cleaning out artery plaque.
Professor David Back, an expert in HIV pharmacology at the University of Liverpool said development of drug resistance was the main problem with current therapy.
While drug costs are the main focus of discussion and debate, Zook points out that companies do a great deal to make their medicines available to those who cannot afford them.
Its main competitor as a heart attack drug is torcetrapib, a drug from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) that raises good cholesterol, potentially cleaning out artery plaque.
Its main product will be an antiviral drug called ribavirin, which is being marketed by Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people) as part of a combination therapy for hepatitis C.
CombinatoRx of Cambridge, Mass. just laid off 65% of its 180 employees after a promising arthritis drug fell short of its main goal in a trial, despite some signs of efficacy.
CombinatoRx of Cambridge, Massachusetts just laid off 65% of its 180 employees after a promising arthritis drug fell short of its main goal in a trial, despite some signs of efficacy.
Merck is pouring tens of millions into an experimental treatment for a new type of Alzheimer's drug meant to limit the main ingredient in the brain-damaging plaques believed to cause the disease.
Meanwhile, Celgene was preparing thalidomide for approval as a leprosy drug, working on the main hurdle set before it by the FDA: It had to create a system of checks and balances that would keep pregnant women from getting the drug.
According to Dr Thiagranjan, the new drug scores over the two main drugs used to treat the virus - Lamuvidime and Interferon - because it is highly affordable and does not have the usual side-effects such as aches and pains and hair loss.
BBC: Rashmee Ahmed of the BBC's Asia and Pacific Region reports
The main competition is not another company's drug but low doses of Genentech's cancer fighter Avastin.
Eleven suspected drug dealers from Rio's main criminal gang - the Red Command - were also arrested.
Cordaptive combines niacin, an already approved heart medicine, with a new drug that alleviates niacin's main side effect, hot-flash-like flushing.
The niacin pill will be paired with another drug to curtail niacin's main side effect of unpleasing flushing or an overheated feeling.
Last November, Merck and Schering-Plough say, an expert panel advised them to change the main goal of a controversial study of their drug Vytorin.
Genentech and Biogen Idec said Tuesday that a key study of the drug Rituxan did not meet its main goal of a response in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called lupus.
The official said the main sticking point is whether the Food and Drug Administration will have regulatory authority over tobacco, which is supported by the White House, former FDA Administrator David Kessler and former Surgeon General C.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ) said Tuesday that a key study of the drug Rituxan did not meet its main goal of a response in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called lupus.
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