The control group got an injectable dose of Rocephin, a Hoffmann-La Roche drug widely used against meningitis.

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Meanwhile, Roche spinoff Basilea, developing a successor to Rocephin, touts its new drug, ceftobiprole, against drug-resistant staph infections.

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Worse, it could lose its top seller, the antibiotic Rocephin, to patent expiration in the next several years.

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Those kids got 100mg of Rocephin on the first day but only one-third of that dose each of the next four days.

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Parents of the dead children in the Rocephin group argue their children would have lived had Pfizer given them the full dose.

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Roche's second-biggest-selling drug, the antibiotic Rocephin, loses patent protection in 2005.

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Pfizer argues that Rocephin injections can be painful.

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