To Settle Suit, Maker Agrees to Withdraw Growth Drug
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A drug to spur growth in extremely short children will be removed from the market to settle patent infringement charges.
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Biopharma firm ends trials for a promising drug and offloads four commercial products.
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Stock falls on news treatment failed a mid-stage trial, company will cease developing drug. NEW YORK  - AtheroGenics Inc.
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Alpharma Inc. said Friday that a federal court dropped an order preventing the generic drug maker from launching its version of Pfizer Inc.
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The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to settle consumer fraud charges by posting online both negative and positive results from its clinical drug trials, a practice that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said should have been made
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Pfizer Inc., the world&#39;s largest drugmaker, agreed to pay $430 million to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.
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A company that illegally provided patients â in particular, athletes â with human growth hormone agreed Tuesday to pay a $10.5 million fine.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb, the drug maker, has been cleared of securities law violations in connection with its botched Plavix patent settlement last year, the company said yesterday in a regulatory filing.
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The drug company's experimental treatment for Alzheimer's  failed to prove effective in a big clinical trial. The stock  closed Tuesday at $45.85 on the New York Stock Exchange before  falling 10 percent in after-hours trading following release of  the trial results.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday ordered an end to the manufacturing and distribution of certain cough and cold medicines containing the expectorant guaifenesin that are sold without the agency's approval.
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OXiGENE reaches a deal with FDA on its lead compound.
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Sanofi-Aventis has withdrawn its  marketing application for its Multaq heart arrhythmia treatment  in the European Union, the world's third-largest drugmaker said  on Thursday.
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Merck &amp; Co. said it&#39;s withdrawing its Vioxx painkiller, which generated $2.5 billion in worldwide sales last year, because of data showing an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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A company that distributed human growth hormone to "well known athletes and entertainers" has agreed to pay a $10.5 million penalty and cooperate with law enforcement in ongoing investigations, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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The plaintiff in a long-running  trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc agreed on  Friday to drop its case targeting the Web search advertising  leader&#39;s core business, according to court filings.
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Blog: One of the many companies defending itself against a patent lawsuit filed by Visto has settled for an undisclosed amount.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.âProxim Corp. said it has agreed to pay Symbol Technologies Inc. $22.75 million over the next two and half years in a settlement of its patent dispute with the company.