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    Lilly asks public to watch for stolen Conn. drugs (AP)

    AP - Eli Lilly and Co. is asking the public for help in spotting $75 million worth of stolen prescription drugs.

    End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way (AP)

    President Barack Obama greets the audience after speaking about health care reform at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.


    CVS CEO's pay fell 17 percent to $14.4M in 2009 (AP)

    AP - The head of drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager CVS Caremark Corp. received compensation valued at $14.4 million in 2009, down 17 percent the $17.4 million he received the previous year.

    AstraZeneca wins 1st trial over alleged drug harm (AP)

    In this undated product image released by AstraZaneca, Seroquel tablets are shown. AstraZeneca on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said a jury in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Jersey ruled in favor of the British drugmaker in the first trial brought by a patient alleging its psychiatric drug Seroquel caused harm. (AP Photo/AstraZeneca) ** NO SALES **AP - AstraZeneca PLC's blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel did not trigger diabetes in a Vietnam veteran, a jury ruled Thursday in the first trial out of thousands of cases alleging the powerful drug caused diabetes.


    AstraZeneca wins U.S. liability case on Seroquel (Reuters)

    Reuters - AstraZeneca Plc won a U.S. court battle on Thursday over product liability claims for its blockbuster Seroquel schizophrenia treatment, the first such case to go to trial.

    Prescription-drug heists on the rise (AP)

    The Eli Lilly warehouse is seen here in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, March 16, 2010.  Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company's regional warehouse in Connecticut.  (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantities of prescription drugs for resale on the black market.


    Teva and Merck agree on generic Temodar launch (AP)

    AP - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Wednesday it agreed to hold off on launching a generic version of Merck & Co.'s cancer drug Temodar until a federal appeals court weighs in on the drug's patent.

    Drug heist investigators trying to find suspects (AP)

    AP - Police in a Connecticut town where $75 million in pharmaceuticals were stolen say they are interviewing company workers, checking area hotels and following other leads to identify suspects.

    Beach jogger killed by plane likely never heard it (AP)

    An  Experimental Lancair IV-P airplane lies beached on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the day after its pilot made an emergency landing. The pilot, Edward Smith, and his passenger survived the crash, but man jogging on the beach was killed when he was struck by the plane. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)AP - The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it before the aircraft hit him from behind Monday evening and killed him.


    Clarification: Amylin FDA info request story (AP)

    AP - In a story March 15, The Associated Press reported that Bydureon is the proposed trade name of exenatide, a diabetes treatment being developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and Alkermes Inc. The story should have specified that the once-weekly form of the drug, exenatide LAR, would be called Bydureon. A daily version of exenatide already is sold in the U.S. under the brand name Byetta.

 
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