Making matters even worse, most of these drugs can only be given by injection.
The experimental medicines here are taken from our list of New Drugs To Watch.
After six years Bristol-Myers has narrowed the hunt to two drugs, BMS184476 and BMS188797.
Building awareness of their corporate brands could help the companies sell drugs in the future.
Costa boosted the U.S. sales force 50%, to 4, 600 and focused on fast-growing drugs.
In AIDS, the drugs can keep people alive for many years, but they are never cured.
A., set out to use a far-out technique called antisense to develop antiviral drugs.
According to the Ministry of Defence, these cases mainly involve alcohol rather than drugs.
Other drug companies in the U.S. are focused almost exclusively on the business of developing and selling drugs.
Established drugs includes the antibiotic Clarithromycin and the prescription painkiller Brufen, a version of ibuprofen.
Both the drugs and polymers on the stents may be causing the problems, she says.
Sixty-nine people got Zetia on top of more proven cholesterol drugs and 154 didn't.
Vertex appears to be ahead of competitors like Merck, who are testing similar drugs.
Iressa is only one in a slew of drugs in AstraZeneca's brimming pipeline (see time line).
Non-food causes include wasp or bee stings, rubber, penicillin and other drugs or injections.
Both drugs have proven to be effective in treating younger women with advanced cancer.
And, Lipitor is the first of many blockbuster drugs to come off patent: e.g.
Another issue: both companies are naturally focused on getting their drugs approved individually first.
The investigation focuses on separate cases of transporting drugs from Jamaica and Houston, Texas.
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Sadly, Medicare now creates incentives for doctors to select the most expensive drugs when treating patients.
All else being equal, doctors make much more money by prescribing more expensive drugs.
Acceleron and some other companies are working on several different drugs that hit myostatin.
The balance comes from the health division, which creates diagnostic drugs for heart disease and cancer.
Drugs that became huge sellers before they went generic can be dominant forces in the market.
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Some evidence is available on the effects of Portugal's decriminalization of drugs, which began in 2001.
The FDA says the drugs clearly shorten survival and speed the progression of cancer.
The question is whether the government should pay for some of the drugs that patients want.
And who was the doctor (or doctors) who prescribed a known addict with prescription drugs?
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Now the legislature wants to increase and expand taxes on groceries, haircuts and prescription drugs.
At Boehringer, Adams would have searched vast libraries of compounds to find possible drugs.
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