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GlaxoSmithKline Q1 net profit up 13.5 pct
Revenue was hit by a fall-off in sales of bird flu vaccine, a big seller a year ago, by generic competition for its Valtrex herpes drug and by regulatory curbs on sales of the diabetes drug Avandia. The company booked a pretax gain of 1 billion pounds from ...
UPDATE 2-Disposals cushion GSK profit as drug sales fall
Exceptional demand for vaccines and anti-flu drug Relenza flattered results a year ago and their absence this year -- plus sharply lower revenue from diabetes pill Avandia and herpes drug Valtrex -- lopped around 1 billion pounds off quarterly sales.
GlaxoSmithKline Q1 Profit Rises Despite Lower Sales - Update
The drop in sales mainly reflected a 1 billion pounds reduction in sales of pandemic products, Avandia and Valtrex from the prior year. In the quarter, a 14 percent drop in pharmaceutical turnover was partly offset by a 7 percent rise in Consumer Healthcare sales.
Glaxo Posts First-Quarter EPS of 32.2 Pence, Surpassing Analyst Estimates
Revenue from the Avandia diabetes medicine plunged after the company stopped promoting it worldwide because of an increased risk of heart attacks. “The first quarter was probably the toughest for Glaxo in terms of year-on-year comparisons for generic ...
GlaxoSmithKline Q1 profit jumps despite sales fall
GSK was rocked in September when the EU medicines regulator decided to pull its former diabetes product Avandia off the shelves over fears that it increased the risk of heart attack and strokes. Regulators also restricted its availability in the United States.
Government Urged To Protect Canadians From Unsafe Drugs
New drugs are often released based on scant understanding of the safety of the drug compounds, which can cause serious health effects and even death, as the examples of rofecoxib (Vioxx) for arthritis, rosiglitazone (Avandia) for diabetes and tegaserod ...
Febuxostat for Treatment of Chronic Gout: Role in Therapy
Febuxostat 40 mg daily appears to be as efficacious as allopurinol in lowering serum uric acid levels. [38] Both febuxostat 40 and 80 mg can be given to patients with mild-to-moderate renal impairment (CL cr of 30–89 mL/min) without dosage adjustments ...
Long-term Reduction of Diabetes Incidence Using Rosiglitazone and/or Ramipril
The Diabetes REduction Assessment with Ramipril and Rosiglitazone Medication (DREAM) trial reported that 3 years of rosiglitazone therapy reduced the incidence of diabetes by 60% among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and/or impaired fasting ...
First ever genome scan for womb cancer reveals genetic region that reduces risk of the disease
They then narrowed down their search by looking specifically at these regions in a further 3,957 patients with womb cancer and 6,886 without the disease. "With faster, cheaper genome technologies now becoming available, we are on the cusp of being able to ...
GlaxoSmithKline to take $3.4 bln charge on Avandia
LONDON (AP) -- Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Monday it will take a 2.2 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) charge against earnings in the fourth quarter to provide for litigation over its diabetes drug, Avandia. The company said the charge is ...
Agreement With Nealanders International to Market and Distribute CinGx Marks New Milestone for Alleg
"After rosiglitazone and other failures, there are no metabolic treatments in sight for AD that are effective and/or do not have serious side effects. Therefore, insulin receptor protein tyrosine kinase treatment for Type 3 Diabetes might represent a new ...
VictozaR Meta-analysis Shows Greater Blood Sugar Control At All Baseline A1C Levels When Compared To Other Therapies
VictozaR (liraglutide [rDNA origin] injection) 1.8 mg was compared with exenatide, insulin glargine, glimepiride, rosiglitazone, and sitagliptin. Baseline A1C categories included =7.5%, >7.5-8.0%, >8.0-8.5%, >8.5-9.0%, >9.0%. Logistic regression was also ...
Betty C. Jung, RN, MPH
Keep Rosiglitazone on the Market, FDA Panel Says - Jul 14, 2010 Too bad, it should be taken off the market. It would seem that the scientific evidence was not taken seriously enough. I would like to know exactly what evidence the 20 who voted yes took into ...
Febuxostat for Treatment of Chronic Gout: Pharmacology
Charnelda L. Gray, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Assistant Manager—Clinical Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, Atlanta. Nafesa E. Walters-Smith, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Assistant Manager—Clinical Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, Tucker. Dr. Gray at Kaiser ...
CMAJ calls on federal government to protect Canadians from unsafe drugs
New drugs are often released based on scant understanding of the safety of the drug compounds, which can cause serious health effects and even death, as the examples of rofecoxib (Vioxx) for arthritis, rosiglitazone (Avandia) for diabetes and tegaserod ...
Love, Loss and, Suddenly, Single Parenthood
I found my true love at age 18. Her name was Liz. She was smart, outgoing, strong-willed, gorgeous and so much more. Though it was a love that I knew would last forever, I waited nine years to ask her the question that she would inevitably say yes to ...
Betty C. Jung, RN, MPH
As early as 2003, researchers looked at the possibility of whether hormone-treated foods may bring on early puberty ing girls (http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factsheet/Diet/fs37.ho rmones.cfm). In 2007, scientists were looking at plastics and insecticides ...
Pharma's Most Perilous Pipelines
Also coming off patent in 2012 is Glaxo's diabetes drug Avandia , which contributed more than $700 million in sales last year. Together, Avandia and Advair represent 24% of Glaxo's total revenues in 2010 and are a major reason Glaxo could be in trouble ...
Victoza® Meta-Analysis Shows Greater Blood Sugar Control At All Baseline A1C Levels When Compared To Other Therapies
SAN DIEGO , April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novo Nordisk presented data today that showed regardless of baseline A1C, once-daily Victoza® (liraglutide [rDNA origin] injection) 1.8 mg consistently helped more patients achieve blood sugar control than some ...
Febuxostat for Treatment of Chronic Gout: Cost
In general, long-term uric-acid lowering therapy, such as allopurinol, probenecid, or febuxostat, may not be warranted in all patients but is most appropriate in patients with recurrent acute attacks, tophi, radiographic evidence of joint damage, and urate ...
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