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A former global patent director for the drugmaker has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for possessing child pornography. Alan Hesketh, a 61-year old British citizen, was sentenced Friday in fe read more »
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Would you be surprised if the answer is AstraZeneca's Nexium? The web site for the heartburn med, known as purplepill.com, generated the most site traffic in this year's second quarter, with more t read more »
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Just a few days before eliminating more than 1,000 sales reps as part of a massive cost-cutting campaign designed to save $1.5 billion in expenses by 2012, the drugmaker awarded its chief scientist a read more »
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Veteran medical device analyst Mike Weinstein at JPMorgan is out with a pretty remarkable research note about the fast-changing market for drug-coated stents. Not too long ago, some had written off t read more »
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I finished my last ImClone Systems vs. Bristol-Myers Squibb entry asking what Bristol had to say about IMCL's claim of a mystery outbidder. Well, yesterday we found out in a press release from BMY. read more »
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In keeping with its new mandate to pay closer attention to safety, the agency will be compiling a quarterly table of drugs that have been identified as having some kind of potential safety issue. The read more »
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This won't be much of an end-of-summer holiday weekend for the folks at Merck and Schering-Plough. That's because early Tuesday morning (5am ET) the detailed results of the so-called SEAS study wil read more »
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Well, the other day I noted that Lilly had opened up a YouTube account called Lilly Diabetes and a few hours later, the site was closed. I discovered yesterday a new Abbott YouTube site called Abbot read more »
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Several weeks ago, Pfizer returned its Chantix ads to television, although the drugmaker chose not to run typical ads touting the name of the controversial anti-smoking pill, which has been linked to read more »
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Ads for flu vaccines have traditionally been confined to public service announcements (PSAs), health and media alerts. So, that's why I was surprised to see this colorful full-page ad in The New Yor read more »
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