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pharmaceutical companies stories: 66 news summaries

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 Researchers Push 
 'Brain Steroids' for All 

Future drugs could boost job, classroom performance

Dec 8, 08 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Healthy adults should be able to take brain-boosting drugs for a competitive advantage at work or on an exam, researchers say in a provocative paper. Seven authors say ethical questions about cognitive-enhancement pills are both warranted and imminent, and that such medicinal aid is no less moral than caffeine consumption,... More »

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drugs • pharmaceutical companies • brain • cognitive science • cognitive development • health research • cognitive enhancement

Drug Companies Hide Data
From Docs

Edited info could mislead those prescribing meds

Nov 26, 08 10:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Pharmaceutical companies aren't as upfront with doctors as they are with the government about their new products, a study finds. Though drug companies must provide the FDA with all of the data from clinical trials, related papers published in medical journals were found to omit info from 20% of the... More »

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FDA • Merck • pharmaceutical companies • Avandia • Vioxx • prescription drugs • prescription • side effects • Vytorin • doctors

Ailing Biotech Firms Need
Shot in the Arm

Flatlining economy threatens breakthrough medical research

Nov 21, 08 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - For the first time in years, the biotech industry is in desperate need of a lifeline, Bloomberg reports, as the economic crisis threatens to shove companies into bankruptcy and derail the development of potentially life-saving drugs. “I’m looking down the barrel of a gun,” admitted one CEO.... More »

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Wall Street • investors • pharmaceutical companies • GlaxoSmithKline • stocks • biotechnology • Parkinson's disease • IPO • multiple sclerosis • biotech companies • Alzheimer's Disease • financial crisis

ANALYSIS

Big Pharma Seeks Big Profits in Developing Nations

Drug Makers See Future in New Markets

Nov 15, 08 2:47 AM CST
(Newser) - The pharmaceutical industry is turning away from the US shores that helped fill its pockets and toward the developing world, the Economist reports. Massive growth has made markets like India and China too attractive to ignore, despite lower income levels and weaker patent laws. And many companies fear Barack Obama's... More »

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China • India • pharmaceutical companies • Medicare • GlaxoSmithKline • Pfizer • emerging markets • pharmaceutical industry

 Non-Profit Pharma 
 Puts Cures Over Cash 

Institute for OneWorld Health finds cheap, new uses for partially developed meds

Oct 24, 08 7:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Combating diseases that afflict only the poor doesn't plump the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies; now comes one that sets out to do just that as a non-profit, Good Magazine reports. Using grants to look at long-forgotten compounds, fund clinical trials, and distribute affordable meds to the world’s poorest... More »

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pharmaceutical companies • malaria • drug companies • nonprofit • infectious diseases • pharmaceutical industry • Institute for OneWorld Health

Many Cancer Trials Go Unpublished: Study

Negative outcomes often shelved because they don't boost careers

Sep 27, 08 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fewer than 20% of cancer trial results are published in peer-review journals, a new study says. And industry-sponsored trials only achieve publication one time in 20. The reason? Scientists seeking success and media-hungry journals don't want to publish negative results, analysts say—even if they would aid other cancer studies.... More »

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FDA • pharmaceutical companies • journals • clinical trials • cancer prevention

ANALYSIS

Dems Get Higher Doses of Drug Company Donations

McCain's scorn, growth of government programs behind shift in support

Sep 23, 08 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pharmaceutical firms have been a stalwart Republican ally—$22 million of the industry’s $30 billion in contributions went to GOP congressional candidates in 2002—but drug makers are increasingly supporting Democrats, Jeanne Cummings reports in Politico. Programs such as President Bush’s prescription-drug plan mean half of pharmaceutical sales... More »

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John McCain • Republican • pharmaceutical companies • Senate Republicans • congressional Democrats • pharmaceutical industry • House Republicans • political donations

GLOSSIES

Pharma Under Fire Over Pricey Drugs for Kids

Lawmakers lash astronomical hikes in drugs for rare diseases

Jul 27, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the face of astronomical hikes in the price of drugs used to treat children, a congressional committee is looking into why companies have increased prescription costs as much as 18-fold when related research and marketing expenses are stable, according to lawmakers. One such company charges $69,000 for a... More »

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health • pharmaceutical companies • medical research • children's health care • rare diseases • drug costs • Questcor • orphan drugs

MARKETS

 Pharma, Tech Kill Early Gains 

Pricier oil, Merck troubles outshine Bank of America's 'success'

Jul 21, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The markets failed to hold on to early-session gains today as oil rose above $131 per barrel and the overall economic outlook remained downcast, MarketWatch reports. The Dow lost 29.23 points to close at 11,467.34, the Nasdaq fell 3.25 to 2,279.53, and the S&... More »

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Google • Merck • Bank of America • pharmaceutical companies • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • S&P 500 • Schering-Plough

GLOSSIES

 America: Land of  Doggy Doping 

The business of pet pharmacology is booming

Jul 10, 08 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans spent $49 billion on their pets last year, with an ever-growing percentage paying for treatment of  behavioral issues with tailor-made psychotropics, reports James Vlahos in the New York Times Magazine. Frustrated owners are feeding dogs drugs like Reconcile—beef-flavored Prozac—-for "mental illnesses that eerily resemble human ones,... More »

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pets • New York Times • pharmaceutical companies • veterinarian • Prozac • pharmaceutical industry • medicating pets

OPINION

 Big Pharma
 Sickens Universities 

It's too easy for drug companies to skirt lax academic regulations

Jun 22, 08 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Weak legislation allows professors to collect huge under-the-table payments from Big Pharma, and it’s time to fight back, Dan Greenberg writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Pharmaceutical companies pay professors to shill drugs and lend their names to industry research, and the only oversight is an honor-system mechanism... More »

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ethics • pharmaceutical companies • pharma • university • academia • pharmaceutical industry • academic research

Deal Delays Generic Lipitor Until 2011

Pact with Indian drug maker stands to net billions for Pfizer

Jun 18, 08 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pfizer has struck a deal with an Indian generic drug maker to delay a cheaper version of Lipitor in the US until November 2011. The agreement limiting generic versions of the cholesterol-lowering drug will translate into billions more in profits for Pfizer, the New York Times reports. Lipitor, the world's... More »

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pharmaceutical companies • Pfizer • cholesterol lowering drug • Lipitor • pharmaceutical industry

Deadly Heparin Found in
11 Nations

FDA traces tainted Chinese blood thinner that killed 81

Apr 22, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA has traced a contaminated blood thinner from a Chinese factory to 11 countries, the New York Times reports. Severe reactions to the contaminated heparin have been linked to the deaths of 81 Americans, but it wasn't immediately clear if the drug may have triggered fatalities in other countries.... More »

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China • FDA • pharmaceutical companies • Heparin • Baxter International • Changzhou SPL

Merck Used Ghostwriters
to Draft Rosy Vioxx Studies

Company downplayed risks in medical articles on drug found to be a killer

Apr 15, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Merck used its own ghostwriters to draft articles minimizing risks of its drug Vioxx, then found medical researchers to lend their names to the research, the Wall Street Journal reports. Merck, which pulled the painkiller from shelves four years ago over heart-attack risks, rejects the claims as "misleading."... More »

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ethics • Merck • pharmaceutical companies • Vioxx • JAMA • medical study

Doc: Merck Fudged Minutes of Meeting

Vytorin probe challeges firm's account of delay in trial results

Apr 12, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Merck's "minutes" of a meeting of heart doctors discussing cholesterol drug Vytorin were created a month after the meeting and distorted the viewpoints of the experts, one panel member changes. The drug company submitted the document to congressional investigators probing its two-year delay in releasing a report saying the... More »

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Merck • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • cholesterol lowering drug • clinical trials • Vytorin • Schering-Plough

Feds ID Extra Drug in Baxter's Recalled Heparin

FDA unsure if chemical was behind reactions
to blood-thinner

Mar 19, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration has identified the extra ingredient found in samples of Baxter’s blood-thinning drug heparin, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Some batches of the drug—recalled in January after reports of allergic reactions—contained over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate, but it is not certain that was the... More »

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China • FDA • pharmaceutical companies • Heparin • Baxter International • blood thinner • drug manufacturer • drug recall • allergic reaction • chondroitin sulfate

Heparin
Supply Chain Shaky in China

Troubles could trace back to vulnerable
raw materials

Feb 28, 08 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - With at least four US patients dead and hundreds suffering complications from the blood-thinning drug heparin, the New York Times follows the supply chain back to Chinese slaughterhouses that deal with the pig intestines that provide raw material for the drug. Though companies say the chain is secure, the Times... More »

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China • medicine • pharmaceutical companies • pharmaceutical • pharmaceutical industry • Heparin • Baxter International • blood thinner • Changzhou SPL • Scientific Protein Laboratories • supply chain • pig intestines

Pfizer Pulls Lipitor Ads
After Probe

Critics accused
pharma giant of
inflating doctor's CV

Feb 25, 08 7:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Pfizer said today it will drop its ads for cholesterol drug Lipitor due to criticisms of the TV spots, the New York Times reports. US lawmakers recently probed whether the campaign had inflated the credentials of artificial heart developer Dr. Robert Jarvik. "The way in which we presented Dr.... More »

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pharmaceutical companies • Pfizer • Lipitor • Robert Jarvik

Vaccines, Medicines to Treat Addiction on the Way

Many resist pharmaceutical approach

Feb 25, 08 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - It's been decades since scientists recognized that addiction is a disease, not just a lack of willpower, but only now are potential treatments coming online that address what Newsweek calls "a chronic, relapsing brain disorder to be managed with all the tools at medicine's disposal." The magazine surveys... More »

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drugs • pharmaceutical companies • addiction • neuroscience • Alcoholics Anonymous

FDA Delay
Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

Agency took a year to pull lethal heart surgery drug Trasylol

Feb 15, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A prominent researcher who revealed widespread fatalities associated with the heart surgery drug Trasylol says 22,000 people died because of the FDA's delay in blowing the whistle on the drug after his study was published. Drugmaker Bayer also failed to disclose negative results of its own study. In a... More »

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FDA • pharmaceutical companies • Trasylol • Bayer Pharmaceuticals • kidney failure • Dr. Dennis Mangano • heart surgery

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