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REUTERS SUMMIT-Faster drug approvals a tonic for pharma industry
Reuters(For other news from Reuters Health Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Health13) By Ben Hirschler NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - A pickup in new drug approvals, the promise of faster regulatory decisions and more targeted medicines have...Tags: Roche Holding AG, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Drugs and Medicines, Breast Cancer, AstraZeneca Plc
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
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George William Wheeler Jr.: Sept. 9, 2012
George William Wheeler Jr., 90, of Lexington, formerly of Winchester, passed away peacefully Sunday, Sept. 9. He was born in Winchester and moved to Lexington in 1958. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Lois Stephens; a son, Skeeter; and a...Tags: U.S. Navy, University of Kentucky, World War II (1939-1945)
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Docs at odds over kids' cholesterol test guidance
CHICAGO (AP) — Should all U.S. children get tested for high cholesterol? Doctors are still debating that question months after a government-appointed panel recommended widespread screening that would lead to prescribing medicine for some kids....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, American Academy of Pediatrics, Abbott Laboratories, Food and Drug Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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‘Pariah’ director Dee Rees' odd path: bunion pads to Spike Lee
24 FramesDee Rees, the writer and director behind the new lesbian coming-of-age film “Pariah,” spent her formative career years marketing panty liners and bunion pads for Procter & Gamble and Dr. Scholl’s before a chance encounter prompted a... -
Vytorin trial shows little or no benefit against heart disease [Updated]
Booster ShotsFor the second time in as many years, a large clinical trial has found that the key ingredient in the heavily advertised drug Vytorin provides little or no benefit in preventing heart disease compared to a competing product. The ingredient...... -
A handle on heart disease?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe cholesterol drug did absolutely everything it was supposed to do -- except for demonstrably improving the health of the people who took it. That was the conclusion reached about the popular drug Vytorin in a study published online last week in the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Liver, Vytorin (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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Claims that shoe insoles relieve back pain are unsupported
Special to The TimesThe product: The human spine is an amazing piece of equipment: On request, it can sway gracefully or withstand thousands of pounds of force. But that versatility comes with a price. At some point, just about everyone suffers significant back pain, and...Tags: Health, Drugs and Medicines, Pain, Surgery, Social Sciences
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Commerce Bancorp Inc.; Eaton Corp.; W.W. Grainger Inc.; Marshall & Ilsley Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.; Sonic Corp.; Wachovia Corp. Tuesday: -- September producer price index -- September industrial...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., General Dynamics Corporation, Apple Inc., Caterpillar Inc., Alliance Data Systems Corporation
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No prescriptions, but plenty of users
Sun foreign reporterThe sun set hours ago. Most everyone who sang and prayed in this concrete room with curtains that's still stuffy from body heat have gone home. Christabelle Piangnee, a 29-year-old whose life has become an incongruous mix of opiates, prostitution and...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health, HIV, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Not right for everyone
Times Staff WriterWHEN coronary arteries grow dangerously narrow, the solution — increasingly — is to prop open the walls with a device called a drug-eluting stent. Now two new studies are adding fuel to a growing debate about whether these stents are being...Tags: Health, Drugs and Medicines, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Instrument Engineering, Northwestern University
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