Drug research openness promised
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The world's leading drug companies have promised to publish more data about clinical trials into new medicines to reassure the public about their safety.
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Legislation to be introduced within days in the US House and Senate would require drug companies to publicly register clinical trials and post the results on a government-run website, congressional staff members who are drafting the proposals said yesterday.
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Human trials are now beginning on a compound that promises to be the first new tuberculosis drug in four decades, one that has been shown in animal experiments to clear TB infections twice as fast as existing medications.
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An automated-screening initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health could finally provide the tools researchers need to turn knowledge of the genome into new drugs.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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The drugmaker gets a step closer to starting a clinical trial for a hepatitis C drug.
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An effort that joins major drugmakers, regulators and academics will be launched on Thursday to study the genetics of people who develop serious side effects from prescription drugs.
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Two potentially new classes of anti-HIV drugs have the medical world excited. But progress on a vaccine is still slow  -  and drugs can't do everything
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drug makers.
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Researchers at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. hope to produce better drugs with medical-imaging equipment usually used to examine patients.
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Faced with pressure from lawmakers and editors of medical journals, four trade groups representing the world's biggest drug makers said yesterday that their members planned to release more data about clinical drug trials.
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A  discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
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Not every drug invented in the laboratory is worth developing into a marketable product.
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Investors reward the drugmaker for positive study results.
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Looking at drug R&D is the best way to begin assessing biotech companies.
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The public should have reasonable expectations that medicines the Food and Drug Administration has approved for the market are, in fact, safe.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drugmakers.