Levine had overturned an earlier preemption standard, and that its request for input from the solicitor general on another case involving Wyeth Pharmaceuticals drug Reglan in May suggested it was still looking at the issue of preemption in a broad light.

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The most advanced of these is a treatment being developed by Elan Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth.

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"Enbrel is going to be very important going forward internationally, " says Bernard Poussot , Wyeth's head of pharmaceuticals.

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At Cubist Pharmaceuticals outside Boston, Wyeth veteran Francis Tally rescued a novel antibiotic abandoned by Eli Lilly.

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King Pharmaceuticals bailed out in 2000 and Wyeth in 2002.

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Even if these medicines get to market, it seems unlikely that they will replace the sales that Wyeth will lose as existing blockbusters face generic competition, according to Barbara Ryan, the pharmaceuticals analyst at Deutsche Bank.

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The next big hope for Wyeth's pipeline is a treatment for Alzheimer's being developed with Ireland's Elan Pharmaceuticals.

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