Hepatitis C Drug Derailed by Deal

Hepatitis C Drug Derailed by Deal

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"We should put patients before financial interests," said Donald Jensen, director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Chicago, who is doing clinical trial research for both Bristol and Gilead. "But this is still a business." Enlarge …
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Creatinine cutoffs for treatment guidance questioned in HTN with CKD

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Chicago, IL – The "30% rule" for guiding antihypertensive drug therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which refers to the serum creatinine increase that should trigger dosage cutbacks, may be unnecessary in the contemporary era of …
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Lilly's touts promise of experimental diabetes drug

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Eli Lilly says its once weekly treatment for diabetes has been more effective that standard drugs in testing. (Handout). Eli Lilly & Co.'s experimental once-weekly diabetes drug dulaglutide proved superior in late-stage clinical trials to three other …
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