AZ suspends marketing of cancer drug
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AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group, suffered another setback when it suspended marketing of Iressa, a lung cancer drug launched this year.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC revealed Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to grant a priority review to its experimental cancer vaccine Cervarix, adding to pressure on the drug maker after controversy surrounding its diabetes drug Avandia.
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Baxter International Inc said on Monday it has temporarily suspended the manufacture of its multi-dose heparin vials after some patients who took the blood-thinning medication reported adverse side effects.
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AstraZeneca Plc has withdrawn its marketing application for lung cancer pill Iressa in Europe after the drug failed to help patients live longer in a clinical study, Europe's third largest drugmaker said on Tuesday.
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A top world supplier of the flu vaccine had its license suspended Tuesday, drastically reducing in half the number of available doses.
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A company that makes substances used in some common medical tests has suspended operations at a nuclear pharmacy in Maryland as state and federal health officials investigate several cases of hepatitis C in the Baltimore area, authorities said Thursday.
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AstraZeneca PLC said Tuesday that it is withdrawing its application to market its lung cancer drug Iressa in Europe, following findings that the drug failed to prolong survival when compared with a sugar pill.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - A U.S. panel of medical experts  recommended on Friday that U.S. regulators reject AstraZeneca's  AZN.L AZN.N application to sell its anti-clotting drug  Exanta.
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FDA on Tuesday made public a letter ordering Abbott Laboratories to stop circulating two advertisements for its antiretroviral drug Kaletra because the agency said the ads &quot;exaggerat[e]&quot; the drug&#39;s benefits and omit information about possible &quot;life
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A popular painkiller is being withdrawn from the market over concerns about links with overdoses.
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SuperGen Inc. on Monday said it has  withdrawn an application to market its pancreatic cancer drug  in the United States due to insufficient data, casting a cloud  on the drug's future in the world's biggest market and sending  the company's shares down as much as 16 percent.
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Merck &amp; Co. is immediately suspending its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company's new vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement for school attendance, the company said Tuesday.
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Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Researchers in the US have halted a government study involving a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug known as Naproxen, brand Aleve, after data indicated possible increased heart risks associated with the painkiller.
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Contrary to what the product promises to do, the latest Viagra campaign has gone limp. According to US media reports, the US-based Food and Drug Administration has ordered drug major Pfizer to stop running
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- Bayer HealthCare, a U.S.-based unit of Bayer AG , stopped a late-stage trial of Nexavar in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, after an independent data monitoring committee concluded that the study would not meet the main goal of improved overall survival.
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The Shanghai-based manufacturer of a leukemia drug that was banned by China's drug watchdog after some patients reported leg pains and difficulty walking said Monday it was investigating the problem.