Instead of pitting one drug against another, both ACCORD and ADVANCE used drug combos.
Some patients' tumors have mutations that make them particularly sensitive to one drug or another.
Every month, on average, the authorities say, one drug is approved in India without trials.
Nearly half of total revenue comes from one drug, Provigil, a treatment for chronic sleepiness.
Consider that treating one patient with one drug can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Extrapolating from one drug to an entire way of making medicines would be a mistake.
It has had only one drug approved, in 1999, for a rare eye disease.
One drug which does this, Cognex (made by Warner-Lambert), has been on the market since 1994.
Some 75% of patients in all treatment groups had to be switched from one drug to another.
Yet only one drug, which is only mildly effective, is used today for the most common form.
One drug that has managed to escape a lot of the bad news has been Pfizer's Celebrex.
One drug company has offered to supply free anti-AIDS drugs to South Africa for a limited period.
Moreover, by focusing on one type of drug--the enzyme--Price thinks BioMarin can pump out one drug a year.
One drug currently available, called Lotronex, affects the limbic system and has worked more successfully in women than men.
Asked about whether the merger still made sense, a Merck spokesman replied that the deal was bigger than any one drug.
More than one drug has failed not because it didn't work as planned but because different patient subpopulations responded to it differently.
Instead of pitting one drug against another, ACCORD used just about every different type of diabetes med on the market, in combination.
She suffers kidney stones from one drug, and is susceptible to illnesses.
One drug, Tarceva for pancreatic cancer, improves survival by just two weeks.
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For every one drug that makes it to market, seven or eight other drugs will fail, and they cost the same to manufacture.
When there is only one drug available to treat kidney cancer, it is hard for payers to negotiate prices with the innovator companies.
Allowing one drug through on a lighter standard will at the least cause more biotech companies to push forward with applications following failed trials.
Nearly 2 million patients get hospital infections (of a total 35 million stays), and two-thirds of them have infections that resist at least one drug.
One drug to watch as the deal goes through is Mylinax, an oral therapy for multiple sclerosis that Ivax is developing with Teva's rival, Serono.
The reasons why people gain excess weight vary -- and one drug isn't likely to address all these factors including lifestyle, food access and environment.
The same firm that loses its lead on one drug might catch up or beat rivals on three others using information gained from a newly transparent process.
One drug Glaxo is testing in early human trials is licensed from biotech company Anacor Pharmaceuticals and uses a new type of chemistry based on the element boron.
It can be hard to admit that one drug that you have been giving to a lot of patients may not be doing much of anything at all.
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Any given antidepressant helps only about one-third of the people who try it, forcing patients to shuffle through one drug after another until they find something that works.
To thrive, they latch onto a healthy host cell and hijack its reproductive machinery, cranking out copies of themselves and spinning off mutant versions that resist any one drug.
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