Drug industry facing upheaval
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As Rod McLeod swallows a Lipitor every day, he weighs the risks and benefits of the cholesterol-lowering tablet -- the best-selling medicine in the world.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK  - When it comes to the price tag  for the newest biotechology drugs for cancer and other  hard-to-treat diseases, the sky is likely to remain the limit,  insurers, drugmakers and industry watchers say.
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Will the product patents regime lead to unsustainably high drug prices? A demonstration against patenting of drug products in Chennai.
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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The regulatory approval was also a boost for the embattled drugs sector. It was feared that, following a series of safety crises, the US Food and Drug Administration would get tougher on new drugs.
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At a time when the drug industry is being pounded with recalls and government investigations while turning out few major new drugs, French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis appears to have a big winner on its hands.
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When a great launch of a good drug is not enough.
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Most people probably find it hard to fathom why Peter Rost would want to stir up the pharmaceutical industry in such dramatic -- and possibly risky -- fashion.
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The market might overlook the drug maker's promising programs.
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Drug manufacturers acknowledged Thursday that they face a crisis of credibility they hope to remedy by releasing information about their clinical trials.
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SHANGHAI -- Looking at the facts, the past year seems to have been disastrous for Worldbest Pharmaceutical.  First, there were reports of accounting irregularities and exaggerated profit. Half the managers were fired. Then, in the summer, six people died and at least 80 fell ill after receiving an...
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The move may mark the beginning of a bigger retrenchment by Pfizer and the rest of the drug industry.
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[India News]: New York, Dec 20 : America&#39;s multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry has been shaken by reports that Pfizer&#39;s high-profile arthritis drug, Celebrex, is said to cause an increased risk of heart attack.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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In the US drug industry, it often takes a disaster to bring change. Not until thousands of European babies were deformed by thalidomide in the late 1950s and early 1960s did Congress raise standards for approvals.
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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.