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The ability of a drug to control or cure an illness.

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Dicked Over

Published August 27, 2008, 4:35 pm, Washington City Paper

"I was very, very, very active sexually," says the 68-year-old. Active, that is, until August 1994, when he had a penile implant installed to treat a rare erectile problem.

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Experimental RNA drug may cause blindness

Published August 27, 2008, 3:47 pm, Nature

Caution needed in clinical trials, scientists urge.

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Takeda's Velcade Found Better Than Standard Blood-Cancer Drug

Published August 27, 2008, 3:27 pm, Bloomberg.com

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. 's Velcade helped keep the blood cancer multiple myeloma at bay in newly diagnosed patients longer than standard therapy alone did, a study in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine found.

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Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

Published August 27, 2008, 3:17 pm, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. today announced its financial results for the period ended June 30, 2008.

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Gleevec receives FDA priority review for gastrointestinal stromal tumors after surgery

Published August 27, 2008, 3:12 pm, News-Medical-Net

Novartis has announced that Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) tablets, (known as Glivec (imatinib) outside the US, Canada and Israel), has been granted priority review status by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the first therapy to be reviewed for use after surgery in kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).

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NexMed shares plunge on move to nix product filing

Published August 27, 2008, 2:35 pm, INO News

(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of drug developer NexMed Inc. plunged Wednesday after the company said its development partner, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, will not ask for regulatory approval of a developing nail fungus treatment.

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Another Storm Brewing For Vytorin

Published August 27, 2008, 2:12 pm, Forbes

Data on whether it causes cancer are set to be released next week.

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Phase III Results of VELCADE(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection in Previously ...

Published August 27, 2008, 2:00 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company today announced the publication of results from the 682 patient, randomized, Phase III VISTA trial in this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Enrollment Complete in 15-Year Long-Term Follow-Up Study Evaluating Impact of AVONEX(R) in Patients with Relapsing ...

Published August 27, 2008, 1:44 pm, Centre Daily Times

Biogen Idec today announced that enrollment is complete in the ASSURANCE trial, a long-term follow-up study which will assess up to 15 years of AVONEX(R) (interferon beta-1a) treatment in an effort to provide detailed data on the long term efficacy of the drug. ASSURANCE is a multi-center, open-label follow-up study of patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with AVONEX or ...

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Enrollment Complete in 15-Year Long-Term Follow-Up Study Evaluating Impact of AVONEX(R) in Patients with Relapsing ...

Published August 27, 2008, 1:30 pm, wallstreet:online AG

Biogen Idec today announced that enrollment is complete in the ASSURANCE trial, a long-term follow-up

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