The pharmaceutical landscape is rapidly changing as patents for some of the blockbuster drugs of the last decade near expiration and other players try to grab some of the remaining revenues before generic medications flood the market. AstraZeneca (AZN) announced Thursday morning that it has filed a New Drug Application with the FDA for its antiplatelet treatment ticagrelor. The drug is meant to treat major cardiac events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) a disease that affects 2.4 million Americans according to the American Heart Association.The drug works by keeping platelets in the blood from sticking together which ...

Vivus (VVUS) is raising the bar on erectile dysfunction drugs potentially becoming the latest formidable competitor to Viagra and Cialis in the $3.8 billion market. Investors in the California-based pharmaceutical company jumped on Wednesday when the company cited positive results from a late-stage study of its erectile dysfunction drug avanafil. The stock shot up almost 6% in early morning trading while shares of Pfizer (PFE) which makes Viagra and Eli Lilly (LLY) maker of Cialis remained relatively flat. Vivus announced the results from its phase 3 Revive study which tested the safety and efficacy of avanafil for the treatment ...

Drug stocks slip early Wednesday, while shares of Vivus jump on a positive Phase III clinical study for the company’s new erectile-dysfunction drug.

Getting kicked down stairs at a small home-improvement company made Kenneth Langone rich and has saved millions of do-it-yourselfers big bucks.In 1978 the legendary investor got into a tiff with the top dog at Handy Dan a small Southern California-based home-improvement company in which he held a small stake. The dispute was resolved by members of Handy Dan’s parent company who bought Langone out then fired its Chief Executive Officer Bernard Marcus and Chief Financial Officer Arthur Blank. The trio went to work immediately launching Home Depot (HD) later that same year. It has since become the world’s largest ...

Seeing shades of blue? On November 14 the whole globe will be seeing them too. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is hosting World Diabetes Day and asking that monuments around the globe be lit blue as a way to shed light on the diabetes epidemic. “The world cannot afford to lose the battle against diabetes. We need to stop people before they start the diabetes journey ” said Professor Jean Claude Mbanya President of the IDF. “For those already living with diabetes we need to ensure that they receive effective diabetes care and education to help them manage their ...

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