Since Valium faded in the late 1970s the company has had few big hits.
Newer drugs like Valium, Halcion and the bestseller Ambien are all just improvements on this ancient mechanism.
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Panic attacks had just been defined as a diagnosis and were assumed to be resistant to Valium-like drugs.
Avastin has been part of a stream of good news that has awakened the Swiss drugmaker that invented Valium.
It might have also marketed it as an alternative to Xanax or Valium.
Mr MacTaggert said Wilson admitted that she had "lost control" and attributed this to a mixture of alcohol and valium.
In fact, IMS says antidepressants were prescribed 169 million times in 2009, twice as much as anti-anxiety drugs like Valium and Xanax.
It was a me-too successor to Valium, the anxiety drug that was the most popular drug in America for most of the 1970s.
For many years the Swiss-based multinational fought allegations that it profiteered, and engaged in creative transfer pricing, on its patented tranquilisers, Librium and Valium.
The late Roche scientist Leo Sternbach invented Valium, Klonopin (No. 6) and several other similar drugs in the heady days of the early 1960s.
The venerable Swiss drugmaker--once the world's largest, thanks in part to its invention of Valium--saw seven drugs fail in final-stage trials in the late 1990s.
Next in Terlings Park's pipeline is an antianxiety drug that may have the benefits of Valium without the accompanying drowsiness, temporary memory loss and habit-forming effects.
Oeri, whose family has controlled Roche, maker of Tamiflu and Valium, for more than a century, is herself best known for her dedication to the art world.
The Terlings Park lab spent a decade pinpointing all the receptors Valium binds to and determining which ones led to the side effects, which caused the benefits.
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Valium (still No. 13 among psychiatric drugs, with 14 million prescriptions) put drug maker Roche on the U.S. map and introduced the idea that a brain drug could be a bestseller.
In the 1990s the antidepressant Prozac did for depression what Valium had done for anxiety: destigmatizing a mood disorder into a treatable illness that might be dealt with using a single pill.
The proposal would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory oversight of online prescription sales as well as the authority to impose fines upon sites illegally selling drugs like Viagra and Valium.
The medications typically in short supply are generally low cost drugs such as morphine sulfate, zofran, compazine, reglan, ativan and valium.. The shortages often involve injectable drugs which are more technically difficult to manufacture than oral medications.
VelaPharm Chief Executive Kevin L. Keim remembers seeing the tofisapam molecule, which was approved as a niche anxiety drug in 15 countries but never became a big seller, when he worked at Roche, alongside Valium inventor Leo Sternbach.
When I think of how much easier it was to invent new medicines a few decades ago, I usually mention the story of Roche chemist Leo Sternbach, who invented not only Valium but related drugs such as Klonopin and Librium.
Detective Orlando Martinez of the Los Angeles Police Department detailed what Murray told detectives he gave Jackson on the final day of his life, which included the sedative Valium (diazepam), the anti-anxiety drug Ativan (lorazepam), the sedative Versed (midazolam), and 25 mg of propofol.
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"Drugs with advantageous safety profiles, in particular drugs that avoid daytime carryover, are not going to make headway with psychiatrists who as a group are prescribing Valium and Xanax during the daytime, " says Gary Richardson, a senior research scientist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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