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Buy Pfizer because of its blockbuster breast cancer drug: Morgan Stanley
Pfizer shares have been lagging the market this year. But the stock's fortunes will improve, according to one big Wall Street firm. Morgan Stanley raised its rating for Pfizer shares to overweight from equal-weight Wednesday, predicting strong performance from one of the company's cancer drugs. "We believe investors underappreciate the global prospects for Pfizer's #1 growth driver Ibrance (breast cancer)," analyst David Risinger wrote in a note to clients
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New Delaware law will expand cancer treatment options
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First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA
Drug and alcohol users will soon be able to get prescriptions for a mobile app that could help them stay clean. Developed by Pear Therapeutics in Boston and San Francisco, the app helps people recovering from addiction stay on track while participating in outpatient treatment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week approved the prescription-only software for the American market
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FDA warns on mixing opioid addiction treatments, other meds
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Drugs reported stolen from Franciscan Health Lafayette East pharmacy
FDA warns on mixing opioid addiction treatments, other meds
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Alnylam's RNAi drug succeeds in key study, shares soar
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FDA warns on mixing opioid addiction treatments, other meds
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Alnylam's RNAi drug clears key study, shares soar
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Could legalizing all drugs solve America’s opioid epidemic?
Drug policy in the U.S. is at a crossroads. On one hand, at least 22 states have decriminalized recreational marijuana, eight of which have gone a step further by legalizing it altogether. At least 29 states permit medical marijuana for qualifying patients. Several additional states look poised to consider legalization, decriminalization, or medicalization in 2018. At the federal level, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced a bill to end the national prohibition of marijuana
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Alnylam's genetic disease drug succeeds key study, shares soar
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UPDATE 2-Alnylam's genetic disease drug succeeds key study, shares soar
The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO says
By Susan Scutti CNN (CNN) -- Too few new antibiotics are under development to combat the threat of multidrug-resistant infections, according to a new World Health Organization report published Tuesday. Adding to the concern: It is likely that the speed of increasing resistance will outpace the slow drug development process. As of May, a total of 51 antibiotics and 11 biologicals -- medical products often made from natural sources -- are being developed, the new report said
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BRIEF-Jaguar Health says FDA indicates co's Canalevia drug qualifies as “minor use” for exercise-induced diarrhea in dogs
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Alnylam's genetic disease drug clears key study, shares soar
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Alnylam's genetic disease drug meets main goal in key study
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Shire, Shionogi's ADHD drug for adults clears late-stage trial in Japan
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BRIEF-Kiadis Pharma receives FDA regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation for ATIR101
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UK backs Opdivo for lung cancer after Bristol-Myers cuts price
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WHO warns the world is running out of antibiotics
Concern about growing global antibiotic resistance has come to a head: The World Health Organization is now warning that the world is running out of antibiotics. There aren’t enough truly new antibiotics being developed, especially for the most concerning antibiotic-resistant infections, according to a WHO report released Tuesday. The United Nations health agency has aired its concerns about antibiotic resistance, which makes it more difficult to treat infections, for some time
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The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO says
Not enough drugs target the 12 "priority pathogens," which are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics Most drugs in the pipeline will be only short-term solutions (CNN)Too few new antibiotics are under development to combat the threat of multidrug-resistant infections, according to a new World Health Organization report published Tuesday. Adding to the concern: It is likely that the speed of increasing resistance will outpace the slow drug development process
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Myrtle Beach dental assistant charged with obtaining prescription drugs illegally while on the job
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – A dental assistant was arrested Monday for allegedly obtaining prescription sedatives unlawfully while on the job. According to online records from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center, Kathleen Capra, 48, was charged with theft of controlled substances. She was released Monday evening on a $1,000 bond. An arrest warrant from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control states the suspect unlawfully obtained a quantity of alprazolam, or Xanax, and took it while performing her duties as a dental assistant at a Myrtle Beach area dentist’s office located on Cipriana Drive
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Baltimore Health Department seeks to double buprenorphine treatment
The Baltimore Health Department wants to offer the heroin addiction treatment drug buprenorphine at its HIV clinics as part of a plan to double within a year the number of patients in the city who can get the medicine. Using the city clinics to distribute buprenorphine could make it available to more patients at a time when overdose deaths are cutting a swath through the city and officials say more treatment is desperately needed
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The Latest: Lawyer: Pharmacist didn't contaminate the drugs
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Pharmacist put speed over safety before outbreak
BOSTON (AP) — A pharmacist accused of making the drugs that caused a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak showed a "shocking disregard" for human life by failing to ensure the medicines were safe, a prosecutor told jurors as his trial opened Tuesday. Glenn Chin, the supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, ran the clean rooms where the drugs were made
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FDA OKs Glaxo's inhaler, first one to combine 3 medicines
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Opioids shorten US life expectancy by 2.5 months
(CNN)Opioid drugs -- including both legally prescribed painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, as well as illegal drugs such as heroin or illicit fentanyl -- are not only killing Americans, they are shortening their overall life spans. Opioids take about 2½ months off our lives, according to a new analysis published in the medical journal JAMA. In 2015, American life expectancy dropped for the first time since 1993
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Pharmacy school cancels classes on growing medical marijuana
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BRIEF-Aerie Pharmaceuticals names Tori Arens VP of drug product manufacturing
GlaxoSmithKline breathes easier as U.S. approves triple lung drug
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GlaxoSmithKline breathes easier as US approves triple lung drug
LONDON: U.S. regulators have approved GlaxoSmithKline's three-in-one inhaler for chronic lung disease, a key new product for the group as it strives to keep its lead in respiratory medicine despite falling sales of the older drug Advair. Trelegy Ellipta is the first once-daily triple medicine for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), putting Britain's biggest drugmaker ahead of rivals such as AstraZeneca and Novartis
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Smiths Medical confirms drug pump vulnerable to cyberhacking
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City asks judge to let case against OxyContin maker proceed
By PHUONG LE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) - A Washington city that says the pain medication OxyContin has devastated the community asked a federal judge Monday to let it move forward with its lawsuit seeking to hold the pill's manufacturer accountable for damages. Everett, a working-class city of about 108,000 north of Seattle, sued Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma in January, alleging the company knowingly allowed pills to be funneled into the black market and into the city and did nothing to stop it
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UC Irvine aims to transform public health with record-breaking $200-million donation
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Christie: Drugmakers to work on nonaddictive pain medication
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says pharmaceutical companies have agreed to work on nonaddictive pain medications and additional treatments to deal with opioid addiction.
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Drugmakers to work on nonaddictive pain medication
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that pharmaceutical companies agreed to work on nonaddictive pain medications and additional treatments to deal with opioid addiction. The Republican governor made the announcement in Trenton, shortly after he convened a meeting of the White House opioid commission that he chairs. That roundtable discussion was closed to the press. He also held a news conference on the topic alongside White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, as well as National Institutes of Health Director Dr
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Family says Weber County showed ‘deliberate indifference’ when inmate going through withdrawals from drugs died of dehydration
Drugmakers to work on nonaddictive pain medication
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University of Maryland pharmacy school cancels plans to train medical marijuana workers
The University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy canceled plans to offer training for those who work in the medical marijuana industry amid legal concerns. After consulting with the Maryland attorney general’s office, the university asked pharmacy school officials to cancel the classes, a university spokesman said. While marijuana has been legalized for medical purposes in Maryland, 28 other states and the District of Columbia, the administration of President Donald Trump has not indicated how it will handle enforcement of the federal marijuana law, which still classifies the drug alongside heroin and LSD
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