Lilly: Study shows Alimta has fewer side effects than rival
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Eli Lilly and Co.&#39;s Alimta lung cancer medicine was as effective as Sanofi-Aventis SA&#39;s Taxotere treatment while causing fewer serious side effects in patients with advanced lung tumors, according to a study.
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The blood-thinning drug Angiomax works as well as rival drugs, but with 47 percent less risk of major bleeding, to maintain blood flow in patients who have had a heart attack or severe chest pain, according to study results published on Wednesday.
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New data presented today confirm that advanced lung cancer patients canlook forward to better-quality survival when treated with Alimta(R)(pemetrexed), a newly approved anticancer agent in the European Unioncompared with Taxotere(R) (docetaxel).
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Indianapolis, November 1 (ots/PRNewswire) - New data presented today confirm that advanced lung cancer patients can look forward to better-quality survival when treated with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed), a newly approved anticancer agent in the European Union
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Eli Lilly drug Alimta, for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer in previously treated patients.
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NEW YORK  - Two new antidiabetes drugs are modestly effective at reducing blood glucose levels without causing weight gain in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a review in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The warning that Eli Lilly &amp; Co. issued last week about its attention-deficit disorder drug Strattera is much narrower than was reported in Saturday&#39;s editions of The Times-Dispatch.
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Shares of biotech company Biomira Inc. soared as it and a development partner, German drug maker Merck KGaA, reported Friday that the median survival in a study involving a lung cancer vaccine has yet to be reached after 23 months in a subset of patients.
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A Takeda Pharmaceuticals diabetes  drug was more effective in dealing with patients' cholesterol  problems than one made by GlaxoSmithKline in a head-to-head  study presented on Wednesday.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly &amp; Co. debuted a Web site Wednesday for clinical trial data on its prescription drugs, including Prozac and its new antidepressant, Cymbalta.
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CHICAGO -- The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its chief competitor, Avandia, a new analysis shows.
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Company says FDA has approved Cymbalta, OK&#39;d last month as antidepression, to treat diabetic pain. NEW YORK  - Eli Lilly and Co.
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Drug firm Merck & Co. will present  data this week showing that an experimental arthritis drug,  Arcoxia, a treatment in the same class as its recently  withdrawn Vioxx, showed no significant difference in the number  of serious side effects than those treated with a common  medicine called diclofenac.
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Novartis' pain killer Prexige did not  raise the rate of serious heart problems and led to fewer ulcer  problems compared to normal anti-inflammatory drugs, results of  a study of over 18,000 patients showed.
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Genentech said a low dose of its cancer drug worked just as well as a more expensive high dose in a clinical trial.
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A drug called picotamide appears to be a more effective blood-thinner than aspirin for people with diabetes, according to an Italian study.
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Trial results for a drug that controls bleeding include a favorable comparison with a similar product.