Diet Pill Was a Driving Force in French Drug Merger
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The year's big drug-industry merger may turn out to be about using marketing muscle to fight fat.
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Osteoporosis drug could give the company its next big winner.
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The former will take over development of the latter's drug.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter diet drug, a lower dose version of a prescription drug made by British firm GlaxoSmithKline.
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French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has launched a cheap anti-malaria pill that could cut deaths from the killer disease in Africa.
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Deals worth nearly 15bn euros have boosted share prices as Europe's pharmaceuticals sector consolidates further.
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An experimental diet drug Accomplia--already shown to aid in quitting smoking--helped people lose much more weight than a placebo in an eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said.
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Drug company faces first true competition to its enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease.
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An experimental pill that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking has gathered even more stardust.
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Respite from the diet roller coaster may come in the form of an experimental pill. And because the pill also targets the brain&#39;s pleasure center - the first diet pill to do so - it&#39;s showing some promise in helping smokers kick cigarettes.
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Italian scientists are testing a new diet pill that expands to a clear, gelatinous blob that may shrink waistlines by giving dieters a sense of satiety.
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Rivals lead to lower sales of the pharmaceutical's only marketed drug.
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French Connection is giving "designer  drugs" a whole new meaning.
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PARIS Sanofi-SynthÃ©labo, which this month completed its $63 billion purchase of a rival drug manufacturer, Aventis, reported Tuesday a 21 percent jump in first-half profit on higher demand for the blood thinner Plavix and the cancer treatment Eloxatin.
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A partnership deal has investors in the small specialty pharma excited.
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The pharmaceutical sells European rights to a promising asthma drug.
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The drug company pushes on after the Enhance trials.