A flu shot that hurts less? Sign me up! Sanofi Pasteur started shipping its Fluzone intradermal vaccine, the first intradermal flu shot ever available in the US market, to clinics across [...]
Politics bring HPV vaccine back into spotlight
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September 14, 2011, 1:53 PM
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Three years ago, I posted a blog on the hot topic of how newly launched HPV vaccines were finding widespread use despite controversy over their effectiveness, cost, and potential side [...]
Generics take over prescription market, causing overall drug spending to slow
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April 22, 2011, 11:27 AM
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Doctors and pharmacists are increasingly writing and filling prescriptions for generic drugs — while scripts for patent-protected pharmaceuticals are declining — according to a study released this week by the [...]
New antibiotics urgently needed to kill “Superbugs”
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April 8, 2011, 1:38 PM
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The World Health Organization has issued a cry for the development of new antibiotics to attack a growing class of amazingly strong drug-resistant bacteria, dubbed “superbugs,” but the marketplace for [...]
Lupus drug Benlysta an expected blockbuster
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March 9, 2011, 3:12 PM
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If Benlysta gets FDA approval this week, it will be the first new drug approved to treat lupus in more than 50 years.
Glaxo’s malaria vaccine cause for hope
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January 25, 2011, 3:49 PM
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Raise your hand if you’d like a shot in the arm! While I imagine few would jump at the chance to feel the sting of an inoculation needle, many folks [...]
Sleep aids and solutions for sleep-deprived couples
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October 6, 2010, 3:39 PM
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Let me give you the ingredients for a recipe for a sleep disaster: one husband who snores and tosses and turns and one wife who is a habitual snooze button [...]
Is the swine flu pandemic a fluke?
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January 15, 2010, 1:12 PM
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Global governments that were scrambling to order and distribute ample supplies of the H1N1 vaccine a few months ago are now sitting on stockpiles as demand for the flu shot [...]
Lofty Pfizer wipes out Wyeth
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October 19, 2009, 3:04 PM
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Many large pharmaceutical mergers over the years have resulted in fused identities: 1989: Bristol-Myers + Squibb = Bristol-Myers Squibb 1999: Zeneca + Astra = AstraZeneca 2000: Glaxo Wellcome + SmithKline Beecham [...]
Swine flu vaccines approved, on the way
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September 16, 2009, 12:15 PM
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The FDA announced the approval of swine flu vaccines from four major drugmakers yesterday. The next steps will be distribution of the vaccines to health care providers, which should begin [...]
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