Some, such as Synercid, which Aventis sold to King Pharmaceuticals today, are especially difficult to administer.
Now pharmaceuticals executives talk openly of concocting thousands even millions of test molecules.
Next, it will use a database of genes maintained by Incyte Pharmaceuticals, in Palo Alto, Calif.
Pharmaceuticals are a traditional favorite, partly because the demand for them is thought to be relatively inelastic.
At Cubist Pharmaceuticals outside Boston, Wyeth veteran Francis Tally rescued a novel antibiotic abandoned by Eli Lilly.
By product, specialty injectable pharmaceuticals (SIP) represented 63% of total net sales in 2012.
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Pharmaceuticals are a perfect example, typified by Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Bristol Myers.
The drug was developed by Aderis Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotech based in Hopkinton, Mass.
Four, including McKee Foods and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, ripped out PeopleSoft and replaced it with Workday.
Among them a pharmaceuticals company, a dating service and a clothing line for babies.
Following on from this, British firm, GW Pharmaceuticals began clinical trials of its own cannabis medicine.
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Pharmaceuticals are profitable only while patents protect them--keeping generic companies from creeping in with cheap knockoffs.
Most new pharmaceuticals now come from the U.S., whereas years ago the majority came from Europe.
"In the early 1990s Dad wanted to get into something beyond pharmaceuticals, " recalls Shivi, 32.
In addition, biotech firm Dipexium Pharmaceuticals is trying to revive the frog drug with new trials.
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Along with Takeda's earlier decision to purchase all of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, the Cambridge, Mass.
More than 80 percent of the active ingredients used in U.S. pharmaceuticals are manufactured overseas.
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The most advanced of these is a treatment being developed by Elan Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth.
This is not the first proposal to federalize private-sector research and development of pharmaceuticals.
Isis Pharmaceuticals in Carlsbad, Calif. is working to invent a drug for Huntington's chorea.
So that's pharmaceuticals, green technology, the media industry but maybe also road provision, banks, supermarkets.
Jami Rubin, the pharmaceuticals analyst at Morgan Stanley, points to Merck's healthy balance sheet.
This could cut into sales for Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Bayer 's Nexavar drug for kidney cancer.
Heart stents may be hyped, but this quarter pharmaceuticals shine, with one key drug growing 87%.
The actual number of deaths was not specified by Reata Pharmaceuticals, which is developing the drug.
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Numerous experimental drugs have bombed in trials, including drugs from Synta Pharmaceuticals and Pfizer.
He was one of the cofounders of United Laboratories (Unilab), nation's largest pharmaceuticals maker.
The FDA approved a new pain drug for marketing from Pfizer and Acura Pharmaceuticals.
Bucking the trend was Alexza Pharmaceuticals ( ALXA), which shot up 12% on takeover speculation.
Elan Pharmaceuticals might have expected to party like it's 1999 when it was a highflier.
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