Some analysts say Genentech was unlikely to push Raptiva as a rheumatoid arthritis treatment anyway.
Anderson advises investors to buy Pfizer shares based on the new drugs the company is developing, including a rheumatoid arthritis pill.
Ando says he didn't know much about Celltech until Pharmacia struck a deal to co-develop a rheumatoid arthritis drug with the British firm.
Type 1 diabetes results from a rheumatoid-like autoimmune reaction in which one's own body attacks and destroys the beta cells of the pancreas.
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In fact, the two firms are so similar that one of Amgen's newest drugs is a rheumatoid-arthritis compound called Kineret that would compete directly with Enbrel.
Amgen also sells Enbrel, a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, and it has a handful of promising new drugs in its pipeline.
Analysts also have deep disagreements over tofacitinib, a pill for rheumatoid arthritis that is seen as likely to displace injectable medicines like Enbrel.
Two of the deaths, a brain trauma and a case of rheumatoid arthritis that worsened after treatment was stopped, are clearly not linked to the drug.
Immunex (nasdaq: IMNX - news - people ) comes with a gem of a drug: Enbrel, a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis that may also treat other conditions, including psoriasis.
Wyeth sells Effexor, a widely used antidepressant, sells rheumatoid arthritis treatment Enbrel with Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) and has a pipeline stocked with new drugs, including an antibiotic the company thinks could be a blockbuster.
"It is important for a minority of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, " he says.
The first project that will use the documents involves a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
He said he did not use chemotherapy but a drug used for treating rheumatoid arthritis.
Roche is developing a test to predict which rheumatoid arthritis patients will respond to standard medications and which have more severe forms that require expensive new drugs.
First, using antibiotics to treat an atherosclerotic patient who has had one heart attack reduces the risk of his suffering a second. (Rheumatoid arthritis, the most common arthritic variety, also responds to antibiotics in some patients, leading researchers to suspect that it, too, may sometimes be provoked by bacteria.) Second, research has come up with the glimmer of a mechanism.
It is already on the market to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, a gastrointestinal disorder.
Patterns emerged detecting which patients, for example, with rheumatoid arthritis took Vioxx, and subsequently suffered a heart attack, as well different variations of the same variables.
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It is also approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis and, is being studied in a Phase III trial in a different set of patients who have lupus nephritis.
Biologics like Amgen's Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
Biologics like Amgen's (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
"Once you are in your 70s, 80s or 90s, or if you have chronic disease like heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic lung and kidney disease, a larger body size gives you longevity, " he said.
The big sleeper is tasocitinib, a so-called janus kinase inhibitor, for rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
In theory, such a vaccine could be particularly valuable in MS and rheumatoid arthritis, which are progressively more disabling.
Cornelius has articulated a strategy of focusing on areas like cancer or rheumatoid arthritis, which require far smaller sales forces because fewer doctors prescribe the medicines.
Bristol-Myers recently launched medicines for rheumatoid arthritis and leukemia, and just today it was granted a fast FDA review for a new chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Any effective "vaccine" would be a significant breakthrough in auto-immune diseases such as MS and rheumatoid arthritis.
Pfizer is currently developing a pill, tofacitinib, that will compete with Enbrel in the rheumatoid arthritis market.
The model also suggested that an anti-inflammatory drug called celecoxib should bind with CDH11, a protein which plays an important role in the development of both rheumatoid arthritis and metastatic breast cancer.
Another promising treatment: an anti-CD20 antibody--kind of a second-generation Rituxan--that Genentech plans to test against rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
In Merck's own trial of 8, 000 rheumatoid arthritis patients, patients on Vioxx had more than twice the risk of getting a heart attack or other cardiovascular event than those who took naproxen.
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