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Blockbuster Expectations for Novartis' Heart Drug

2014-09-03 01:37:27| Biotech - Topix.net

For more than two years, Wall Street's love affair with drug makers has been fueled by the race to launch exciting new cancer drugs and oral therapies for hepatitis C. This weekend, Swiss drug maker Novartis got a big shot in the arm from a new drug that could be the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of heart failure in more than a decade.

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New Cholesterol Drug Cuts Heart Risk in Half

2014-08-31 19:24:02| Biotech - Topix.net

An experimental cholesterol-lowering drug from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals roughly halved the number of heart attacks and strokes in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Sunday.

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'Remarkable' new heart drug will cut deaths by a fifth - and could...

2014-08-31 15:43:46| Apparel - Topix.net

Celebrity friends of comic Joan Rivers take to Twitter to pray for her recovery as her family face agonizing decision over whether or not to turn off star's life support Devastated wife tells how her husband died of a heart attack on Southwest Airlines flight after attendant refused to use a defibrillator on him because 'his chest was too hairy' ... (more)

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Southwest Airlines passenger suffers heart attack and dies after...

2014-08-31 08:38:15| Airlines - Topix.net

A padlocked fridge, no store trips and even dog food has to be hidden: The heartbreaking condition driving Hannah, 14, to 'eat herself to death' and how her insurance won't pay out for treatment Joan Rivers' family face agonizing decision over whether to turn off life support machine as legendary comic fights for her life after suffering cardiac ... (more)

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