Pfizer Ends Brain Cancer Drug Deal With Celldex
From Associated Press (September 3, 2010) NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Pfizer Inc. is pulling out of a development deal with Celldex Therapeutics Inc. on a potential brain cancer drug, saying it is not a strategic priority, Celldex said. Celldex said it will...
CDC: Prescription Drug Use Continues to Increase: U.S. Prescription Drug Data for 2007-2008
Qiuping Gu, M.D., Ph.D.; Charles F. Dillon, M.D., Ph.D.; and Vicki L. Burt, Sc.M., R.N. Key findings Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription drug in the past month increased from 44% to 48%. The use of...
New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient, Study Finds
WHAT: A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine .
Merck?s Cladribine Tablets for Multiple Sclerosis Approved in Australia
Darmstadt, September 3, 2010 – Merck KGaA announced today that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved Cladribine Tablets for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS)1. Cladribine Tablets will be...
Abbott Calls Off Sale of Flu Vaccine Business In Europe
From M&A Navigator (September 3, 2010) US drugmaker Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has abolished plans to sell its European flu vaccine business due to undervaluing initial offers, Abbott's spokeswoman Melissa Brotz said yesterday, confirming a...
China sees more thyroid problems
Results from the latest epidemiology study have pointed to a thyroid-related disease outbreak in China that may be related to the nation's 1995 mandate to add iodine to salt, experts said.
Officials: Men arrested with pot plants said it was medicinal
LAGUNA HILLS More than 150 marijuana plants growing inside a home, discovered after a six-hour standoff with police, are part of a medical marijuana collective in South County, two people told authorities Wednesday.
Smoking baby reportedly has quit
The tubby Indonesian toddler who caused a sensation last spring by enthusiastically puffing on cigarettes in a widely viewed video has quit smoking, according to media reports.