Wyeth Loses Bout in Fight on a Generic
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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for a copycat version of the popular heartburn drug Protonix.
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Cellegy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: CLGY) of South San Francisco saw its shares lose about half their value Monday after the US Food and Drug Administration rejected the company&#39;s nitroglycerine ointment for treating pain from chronic anal fissure.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a  request from Sanofi-Aventis  and Bristol-Myers Squibb  Co.  to block the sale of a generic form of their  top-selling Plavix blood thinner.
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Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG is  taking legal action against Israel&#39;s Teva Pharmaceutical  Industries Ltd  in the United States to prevent Teva  from selling a generic version of Roche osteoporosis drug  Boniva, Roche said on Tuesday.
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LAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya lost to Bernard Hopkins when he was knocked out in the ninth round with a punch to the liver. It was the first time De La Hoya had been stopped inside the distance.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a   request from Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. to   block the sale of a generic form of their top-selling Plavix   blood thinner.
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Wyeth WYE.N on Monday reported a  fourth-quarter loss despite strong sales growth of its  prescription medicines, as it took another charge of $4.5  billion for costs related to its recalled fen-phen diet drugs.
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A federal judge blocked sales of a generic version of blood thinner Plavix yesterday while he considers the merits of a claim that a Canadian pharmaceutical company improperly entered the market.
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Eli Lilly loses a pair of patent cases over its top compound.
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Wyeth WYE.N on Wednesday faced   accusations that one of its hormone replacement therapy (HRT)   drugs caused breast cancer in a 67-year-old woman as one of the   thousands of trials the drug maker is facing over the treatment   got underway.
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Drug maker Wyeth said Monday that it will challenge British regulators&#39; decision to revise the label for its Efexor anti-depressant to state that patients with heart disease should not take the medication.
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Wyeth  on Monday reported a fourth-quarter loss despite strong sales growth of its prescription medicines, as it took another charge of &#36;4.5 billion for costs related to its recalled fen-phen diet drugs.
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The newly empowered Democrats' vow to  cut healthcare costs might spell bad news for the brand-name  pharmaceutical industry, but could provide new momentum for  generic drug rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported on its  Web site on Tuesday.
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Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said Wednesday it won a court ruling in the Netherlands preventing Indian rival Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. from releasing a generic version of the company's cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor.
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Genzyme Corp. suffered an unaccustomed defeat yesterday when shareholders in Bioenvision Inc. , a small New York cancer-drug developer, blocked a $350 million takeover bid by refusing to sell their stock to the Cambridge biotechnology giant.
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review whether to take action over Merck & Co Inc's  and Schering-Plough Corp's  popular cholesterol medicine Vytorin after a study showed it was no better than a generic drug in preventing the build-up of fatty plaque.
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Pfizer has lost a Chinese court case aimed at protecting its rights to a popular Chinese translation of Viagra.