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India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-drug-maker-india-patent.html Medications Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:28:55 EST news284009309 A combination drug containing niacin failed to lower the risk of heart attacks or strokes and even proved harmful for some with vascular disease, a study released Saturday reported. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-niacin-therapy-unhelpful-occasionally.html Cardiology Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:11:35 EST news282064288 The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in favor of investors seeking to join a class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Amgen for downplaying safety concerns about two anemia drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-court-amgen-class-action.html Medications Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:01 EST news281248021 Italian health authorities on Friday lifted a ban on the sale of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, saying that tests had shown they were not a health risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-italy-novartis-flu-vaccines.html Medications Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:26:14 EST news271671963 Canada's top court on Thursday stripped Pfizer of its patent for Viagra, saying the pharmaceutical giant failed in the patent to identify the active compound in the drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-canada-high-court-voids-pfizer.html Medications Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:09:56 EST news271609777 Italian, Swiss and Austrian authorities on Wednesday halted the sale of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-italy-switzerland-austria-sales-novartis.html Medications Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:50:23 EST news270312606 A University of Queensland invention that will deliver vaccines without the need for needles has struck a significant partnership with US-based pharmaceutical giant Merck, announced today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-merck-partnership-needle-free-vaccine-delivery.html Medications Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:08:50 EST news268992521 Pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG on Wednesday said it was "disappointed" with an Indian ruling that allows a local firm to produce a cheaper copy of its patented drug Nexavar for liver and lung cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-bayer-disappointed-india-patent.html Medications Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:34:52 EST news267870881 Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is under investigation over a failure to properly report adverse drug side-effects, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-roche-probed-faulty-drug-safety.html Medications Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:02:17 EST news259516928 A drug cocktail that combines chemotherapy with Avastin was shown to double the amount of time patients lived without progression of ovarian cancer, according to research released Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-drug-cocktail-boosts-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:23:52 EST news257862174 French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has signed a partnership with India's Hetero to manufacture cheap anti-HIV drugs in South Africa, the company said on Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-sanofi-teams-india-cheap-arvs.html Medications Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:27 EST news252332179 An experimental blood thinning drug made by the pharmaceutical giant Merck may reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack but also boosts the danger of internal bleeding, researchers said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-merck-blood-thinner-results.html Cardiology Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:12:54 EST news251835164 Watching Alzheimer's disease steal away the memory, talents and very selves of its victims is hard enough for the people who love them. But a new pill formulated by a respected pharmaceutical company and approved by the Food and Drug Administration will do little to help most patients and bring misery to some, say two medical investigators. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-alzheimer-drug-sharply-criticized-medical.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:50:01 EST news251717731 Bayer AG said Tuesday it was mulling ways to challenge a ground-breaking Indian ruling allowing a local firm to produce a vastly cheaper copy of a cancer drug made by the German pharmaceutical giant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bayer-mulls-india-cancer-drug.html Medications Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:13:26 EST news250856001 Two years after pharmaceutical giant Roche promised the BMJ it would release key Tamiflu trial data for independent scrutiny, the safety and effectiveness of this anti-influenza drug remains uncertain, warn experts today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-effects-tamiflu-uncertain-experts-roche.html Medications Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:10:01 EST news246081006 Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced it was acquiring Inhibitex, Inc., a company specializing in treatment of hepatitis C, for $2.5 billion (1.9 billion euros). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bristol-myers-squibb-inhibitex-billion.html Medications Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:59:59 EST news245228187 Indian pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy won US regulatory approval to make the first generic version of cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor, a Pfizer product whose patent expired Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-india-ranbaxy-lipitor.html Medications Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:11:07 EST news241927215 Pharmaceutical giants and the UN intellectual property agency launched Wednesday a collaboration to share certain patented drug information with public organisations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pharma-giants-drug-patents-collaboration.html Medications Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:12:40 EST news238846347 A breakthrough drug that could extend survival in some patients with advanced skin cancer was approved on Wednesday by US regulators, offering the first new treatment for melanoma in 13 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-roche-drug-late-stage-melanoma.html Cancer Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:33:17 EST news232799580 Two decades after a Rutgers team began working with legendary drug developer Paul Janssen, founder of a Belgian subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson in an effort to create new and potent drugs to fight AIDS, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second anti-HIV drug that came from this collaboration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-rutgers-laboratory-hiv-drug.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:29:34 EST news228054561