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- Wyeth Ventures Into Obesity Drug Graveyard
- Wyeth will pay $120 million to Thiakis to obtain its anti-obesity drug candidate, TKS1225. In doing so, Wyeth has taken its first, expensive step into a disease category that many drug companies have entered, and all have failed. Obesity is a classic graveyard of failed drug brands. There's a good...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Why Vivus's Qnexa Might Avoid the Obesity Drug Graveyard
- Vivus’s better-than-expected Phase III data with obesity drug Qnexa started the goldmine versus graveyard debate once again. In one corner: the folks who think obesity is the last frontier. In the other corner: the folks like BNET’s own Jim Edwards, who argues that obesity drugs are doomed to failure. by...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Why Vivus's Qnexa Might Not Avoid the Obesity Drug Graveyard
- Many have tried. None have succeeded. And now Vivus -- a young Arthur of Pharmalot, if you will -- believes it can pull the sword from the stone. Qnexa has twice blown through the FDA's required "5 percent better than placebo" weight-loss standard. What could possibly go wrong? Three things....
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
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- Black sheep wrongly made scapegoat in British graveyard mystery
- LONDON AFP — A black sheep called Colin who faced repeated warnings for supposedly eating flowers at a graveyard in central England has been dramatically cleared of blame, officials said. Colin, owned as a pet by a woman in the town of Stroud, faced being forcibly kept on a...
- Research articles 2004-12-07
- Human remains found in mob graveyard
- NEW YORK -- Authorities discovered part of a human skeleton in a vacant lot believed for years to be a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters. FBI spokesman James Margolin said the bones discovered Monday in Queens included a...
- Research articles 2004-10-13
- Mob graveyard yields body of gangster's girl
- INVESTIGATORS digging in a reputed mob graveyard uncovered the remains of a woman believed to have been the girlfriend of Irish gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger. The search in Massachusetts followed a tip-off from a Mafia mob insider who agreed to co-operate in a plea bargain. ...
- Research articles 2000-10-22
- Hingis perishes on Wimbledon's graveyard court
- LONDON AFP — Martina Hingis perished on Wimbledon's graveyard of champions as the Swiss was knocked out by unseeded American Laura Granville on Friday. Hingis, the ninth seed, looked a shadow of the player who won Wimbledon ten years ago as Granville triumphed 6-4, 6-2 on Court Two, where...
- Research articles 2007-06-29
- Vivus Beating Arena, Orexigen In Obesity Graveyard Race
- The race to produce a blockbuster anti-obesity pill -- a contest that no company has yet won -- got interesting this week with the news, via AP, that Arena Pharmaceuticals' data showed that its contender, lorcaserin, showed only 3.6 percent more effectiveness than a placebo. The FDA wants to see...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- There's life on the graveyard shift for 24-hour pharmacies
- There's life on the graveyard shift for 24-hour pharmacies NEW YORK - It's the middle of the night, and parents are up with a sick baby. The father hangs up the phone and says the doctor is calling in a prescription. Mother: Who's open at this hour? ...
- Research articles 1990-09-24
- The lesson missed in the graveyard.(NATION)(PRUDEN ON POLITICS)
- Byline: Wesley Pruden, THE WASHINGTON TIMES There's a little graveyard on the outskirts of Washington where, amongst rusting Prince Albert tobacco cans, Win With Willkie buttons and rotting hulks of '57 Edsels half-hidden in the weeds, the dreams and ambitions of hundreds of Republican...
- Research articles 2004-04-23
- New Bid To Bury Row!
- Byline: Hazel Ettienne , village sight Kirkheaton Parish Church appeal Green Party councillor Andrew Cooper Graveyard dispute lasts 30 years A 30-YEAR wrangle over the ownership of Kirkheaton Parish Church graveyard could soon be solved. Green Party councillors have called on Kirklees Council to settle...
- Research articles 2006-01-05
- An e-business is reborn via online obits; Legacy.com capitalizes on Trib link.(Brief Article)
- Legacy.com, an online obituary site, seemed headed for the dot.com graveyard when last year's tech crash grounded its plans to build and host Web sites for funeral homes. But the Evanston venture has found new life as an interactive publisher, cap Legacy.com, an...
- Research articles 2001-08-20
- An overseer's apology; Regulating Wall Street.(Memoirs of an SEC chairman)('Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Regulators do the graveyard shift Regulators do the graveyard shift
- Research articles 2002-10-26
- Tesco faces fresh US threat.
- Tesco will open its first Fresh and Easy stores in the US in the next two weeks. Will it succeed in a country that has become a graveyard for many retailers? Nathalie Olof-Ors Tesco will open its first Fresh and Easy stores in the US...
- Research articles 2007-10-24
- Russian roulette.(Credit Suisse First Boston proposes Russian bond fund)(Brief Article)
- MOSCOW has proved the graveyard of many a banker of late-sometimes literally. Financially, at least, no foreign bank has had a worse time of it than Credit Suisse First Boston. As the biggest trader in the Russian bond market, it also took the larges MOSCOW has...
- Research articles 1999-03-20
- Surfing USA; Tesco and Safeway online; Tesco and Safeway team up online.(Business)(US and British supermarkets)(Brief Article)
- AMERICA has all too often turned into a graveyard for foreign retailers. But this week a British supermarket chain sped across the Atlantic to teach the Yanks a trick or two. On June 25th Tesco, Britain's biggest grocer, announced a deal with Safeway AMERICA has all...
- Research articles 2001-06-30
- Resurrection man: Will Harris's efforts in rebranding BT Cellnet as [O.sub.2] were praised by many. But turning around a widely derided political party led by a former Home Secretary closely associated with the poll tax is an altogether more difficult mat
- The Conservative Party, long consigned by many to the political graveyard, has been buoyed by the feeling that its appointment of Michael Howard as leader sent a wave of unease through the corridors of Number 10. The Conservative Party, long consigned by many to...
- Research articles 2003-12-04
- Computer chip thefts challenge risk managers.
- LONDON--It was during the graveyard shift in the early morning hours when an employee of a major computer chip manufacturer went outside for a cigarette break. This was the perfect opening for a group of armed robbers, who were hell-bent to steal compLONDON--It was during the...
- Research articles 1996-04-29
- Cree hopes problems will lighten up soon. (Cree Research Inc.)
- The financial graveyard is littered with the remains of start-up research-and-development labs that offered promising technology but failed to make the critical leap from the red into the black. The financial graveyard is littered with the remains of start-up research-and-development labs that offered promising technology but...
- Research articles 1996-12-01
- The business of remembrance
- LOS ANGELES AP -- In just four years, death business maverick Tyler Cassity has transformed a decaying graveyard with a who's-who cast of eternal celebrity residents into a lush and hip final stop. Part of Hollywood Forever's success can be attributed to technology: A mini film studio at the cemetery...
- Research articles 2002-06-13
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