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Impending Patent Losses Creating Eli Lilly Uncertainty

Impending Patent Losses Creating Eli Lilly Uncertainty

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For one, Eli Lilly's blockbuster drug Cymbalta, generated record sales of $ 2.3 billion in the first six months of 2012. In the second quarter, Cymbalta's year-over-year sales increased by 22%. Eli Lilly also has a new… Continue reading

Agencies Work to Unite Foster, Biological Parents

Agencies work to unite foster, biological parents

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Not only had she lost custody of her children because of her drug use, but now two strangers were raising them. She feared she would have no contact with the foster parents or her children and no say… Continue reading

National Conference on Addiction Disorder 2012 Summary – a Successful

National Conference on Addiction Disorder 2012 Summary – A Successful

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A little digging to augment the Twitter feed revealed that Carise, the chief clinical officer at Phoenix House Foundation, told conference attendees that addiction treatment centers are missing the opportunity to help a… Continue reading

Absalon Guilty of 1984 Murder

Absalon Guilty of 1984 Murder

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A man who confessed to murder during a drug treatment group therapy session 28 years ago will now spend the rest of his life in prison for that crime. Ryland Shane Absalon was found guilty of capital murder by… Continue reading

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Trial of hepatitis C drug has deadly outcome

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The drug, which went by the code name BMS-986094, was among a growing number of experimental antiviral medications being developed to treat hepatitis C, a liver-destroying virus that infects more than 3 million people in the… Continue reading

Synergy Pharmaceuticals Files IND for SP-333, a Developmental Drug for

Synergy Pharmaceuticals Files IND for SP-333, a Developmental Drug for

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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synergy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGYP), a developer of new drugs to treat gastrointestinal (GI) disorders and diseases, announced today that an Investigational New Drug (IND) application… Continue reading

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Texas says rise in paroles gives state bragging rights

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John Whitmire, D-Houston, is the architect of many of the prison reforms in Texas. Whitmire said the state has always been the toughest in … Rather than build three new prisons in 2007, funds… Continue reading

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Ray J on Spiritual Path After Whitney Houston Death, Fight With Fabolous

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After the public passing of the singer's friend, Whitney Houston, the sister of Houston's ex-husband, Leolah Brown, alleged that Ray-J Norwood and Houston used drugs together. While Norwood's representatives denied the… Continue reading

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Bristol-Myers suspends hepatitis C treatment study

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Students injured in Houston school bus crash … The drug, labeled BMS-986094, is one of two main potential hepatitis C treatments from Bristol-Myers that investors are focused on, Bernstein analyst Dr. Tim Anderson said in a research note.… Continue reading

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Georgia hospital tests patients exposed to N.H. outbreak suspect

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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia hospital is contacting patients who were treated by a traveling medical technician who worked there briefly and is accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire.… Continue reading