Bayer Drops Drug From a Cancer Trial
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A late-stage trial of Nexavar in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer after a committee said it would not meet the main goal of improving overall survival.
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BEIJING -- China's drug watchdog announced Saturday it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.
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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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Novartis AG, Switzerland s largest drugmaker, withdrew an application for European Union approval of its experimental Prexige, a painkiller similar to Merck & Co.
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German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said it had decided to pull out of clinical testing of Repinotan, a compound used to treat stroke patients, because the drug had not lived up to expectations.
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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said a government-sponsored cancer-prevention trial of its blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex was halted after patients taking it had more than
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Description: A new study finds that deaths in cancer drug trials have declined ten-fold, thanks to the development of drugs that are better targeted at the tumors themselves.
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Johnson & Johnson's daffodil-extract Alzheimer's treatment yanked from market.
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Biopharma firm ends trials for a promising drug and offloads four commercial products.
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Merck & Co. said on Thursday withdrew  its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial  confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of  heart attack and stroke.
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Merck & Co.  said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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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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Its unique compound to fight the growth of cancer cells fails in trials.
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China's drug safety watchdog has suspended sales of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the latest in a string of food and drug security scandals.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved a cancer drug made by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients who have undergone chemotherapy.
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A new study indicates that a Bayer statin drug called âBaycol&#39; should have been taken off the market earlier. Statins are drugs that lower your cholesterol level.
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GenVec Inc. has suspended human testing of its leading drug, a potential cancer therapy, after a patient died during a study. The Gaithersburg biotechnology company&#39;s stock plunged