The bill passed its final stage on an oral vote.

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The split ends a decades-long partnership that appeared to unravel after Lilly signed a deal earlier this year with Boehringer Ingelheim to jointly develop and sell several diabetes compounds that are in mid- and late-stage development, including a Boehringer oral diabetes agent known as linagliptin.

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Modelled on the American court system but without juries, the oral trials mark the final stage of a gradual move away from a previous, French system.

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The prostate drug CyPat and the oral contraceptive Seasonale are in final-stage trials.

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The second stage of the Autism Bill was passed on an oral vote.

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In 2008, Phenomix scrapped plans to go public, and signed a deal with Forest Laboratories to jointly develop and sell its oral diabetes drug, already in late stage clinical trials.

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All amendments were passed on an oral vote and the bill completed the consideration stage.

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Ms. TONI BLACKMAN (Musician): I think my music is really in the vein of a Lauryn Hill, of a Mos Def, of a Talib Kweli, of the Roots, of artists who are part of hip-hop culture and really committed not only to being on stage and being in the limelight but really committed to the art form and to the tradition of the oral tradition.

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