Forest Says Drug Trial Misses Goal
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Forest Laboratories Inc. (FRX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said its experimental hypertension drug failed to meet all its goals in an effectiveness study, an outcome that will delay development and may lead to a new trial.
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Two bills that would benefit forest-product makers have drawn the ire of the Louisiana Chemical Association because its membership wouldn't get the same deal.
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GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia was not to blame for heart deaths in a trial to see if treating diabetes would reduce heart disease, U.S. government-funded researchers said on Wednesday.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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The widow and son of a Texas man who was taking a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug at the time of his fatal heart attack claims the drugmaker failed to warn about the drug's risks, according to a lawsuit.
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A trial for an alleged Mexican drug kingpin accused of smuggling as much as six tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. has been postponed until later this year.
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Merck failed to warn doctors about the risks of its painkiller Vioxx and must pay a retired FBI agent $50 million to compensate for the heart attack he suffered after taking the drug, a federal jury found Thursday.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- A trial for what appeared to be a promising new therapy for Parkinson's disease has been halted, although researchers haven't given up hope that the drug will one day prove useful.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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The Government has stopped short of endorsing two of the main recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry to restrict doctors&#39; access to controlled drugs.
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A popular cholesterol-lowering drug failed to help slow the buildup of artery-clogging plaque in a long-awaited study, the companies that market the medication said yesterday, raising questions about whether its use should be limited.
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NEW YORK - Hopes for an experimental treatment that had the potential to help the 85,000 Americans who suffer long-term disability each year due to traumatic brain injury were dashed this morning when Pharmos said that its drug, dexanabinol, failed to
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The company announces trial results that, once again, do not meet primary end points.
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The chief executive of tobacco holding company Vector Group Ltd. backed away from past admissions that smoking is a proven cause of disease during testimony on Monday in the government's racketeering trial against the industry.
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Pfizer has told federal drug officials that the company's analysis of 41 of its own patient trials of the arthritis and pain drug Celebrex finds no evidence that the drug increases the risk of heart problems.
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The notion that forests are declining across the tropics is not proven, a study argues, because data is unclear.
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Novartis AG failed to give the  government prompt, accurate reports about deaths of dogs  treated with a painkiller in the same class of medicines now  linked to heart problems in humans, U.S. regulators have  charged in a letter.