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- Safety scare over Glaxo drug fuels talks of tougher laws in US
Law makers are seizing on last month’s study linking GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia and heart risks to press for new US drug-safet...
- Glaxo failed to publicise Avandia risks
GlaxoSmithKline was the drug industry’s top advertiser last year, promoting its asthma and diabetes treatments to patients and doctors. Inf...
- New study adds to worries about diabetes drug class
Another study has found that diabetes drugs intended to help patients live longer, healthier lives may in fact increase the chances they wi...
- Pfizer may cut jobs, rejig biz to tide over crisis
Pfizer will likely slash staff and accelerate merger and licencing deals as the pressure on it to improve its financial performance intensi...
- Pfizer halts cholesterol drug trial, shares may take a hit
Pfizer’s shares will likely plunge after the world’s biggest drugmaker unexpectedly ended development of its most important new drug, a cho...
- Merck's Vioxx successor equally risky, finds study
Merck & Co’s experimental painkiller, Arcoxia, may carry the same risk of heart attacks and strokes as Vioxx, according to an analysis of 2...