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NEWS ABOUT: Plavix

Plavix stories: 3 news summaries

 Novartis Acquires Plavix Rival 

Novartis acquires worldwide rights from a San Francisco biopharmaceutical firm

Feb 12, 09 8:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Novartis AG will pay a San Francisco biopharmaceutical company $75 million—with the potential for an additional $500 million—for the worldwide rights to an experimental anticlotting drug the Swiss drug firm hopes will rival Plavix, reports the Wall Street Journal. Market leader Plavix rang up $8.22 billion... More »

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pharmaceutical companies • Eli Lilly • Lipitor • prasugrel • Plavix • Bristol Myers Squibb • Novartis AG • Portola Pharmaceuticals • elinogrel

Big Pharma Faces Big Plunge

Profits will drop as patents expire, and chemical-based therapies are eclipsed by biotech

Dec 6, 07 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Patent protections on some of the pharmaceutical industry's best-selling drugs, like Lipitor, Plavix and Singulair, are due to expire in the next several years, and drug manufacturers have little in the pipeline to replace them. The drug companies will lose billions—as much as half their combined revenue—to generic... More »

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Merck • pharmaceutical companies • GlaxoSmithKline • Pfizer • Eli Lilly • Zocor • Lipitor • Plavix • pharmaceutical industry • Zyprexa • Fosamax • Singulair • Cozaar • torcetrapib • drug manufacturer

New Blood Thinner Tops Plavix in Trials

But prasugrel also adds risk of bleeding to death

Nov 5, 07 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - An experimental new blood-thinner looks like real competition for top-selling anti-clotting drug Plavix, after proving more effective at preventing heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related death in a recent trial, the AP reports. But “there is a price to pay” for increased effectiveness, wrote one doctor—the new drug caused... More »

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medicine • FDA • drugs • heart disease • heart • heart attack • prasugrel • Plavix • blood thinner

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