MarketWatch: Health Round-up


Pages: 52

Publisher: Datamonitor

Date Published: September 2006

Format: PDF

Price: $200

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Overview

Datamonitor’s MarketWatch Health Round-up is a one-stop news shop for time-pressed executives. It provides monthly insight into the key events in the Healthcare industry. The report contains the latest news, analysis and opinion, covering all the month’s major issues and events in R&D, regulatory and licensing in the Healthcare industry.

Table of Contents

In this month’s MarketWatch…

Pharmaceutical Company Round-up

Page 3

Cancer Update

Page 4 – News Round-up

Page 7 – Opinion: Novartis: Tasigna filing brought forward…

Page 7 – Opinion: Roche: Xelox to challenge FOLFOX in colorectal cancer…

Page 8 – Opinion: Novelos Therapeutics: fast track presents new opportunities…

Cardiovascular Update

Page 10 – News Round-up

Page 13 – Opinion: Pfizer: a strategic reversal of fortunes?

Page 13 – Opinion: Sanofi-Aventis/Bristol-Myers Squibb: Plavix threat looms nearer…

Page 14 – Opinion: Atrial fibrillation: guidelines put stroke in focus…

Page 15 – Opinion: Apotex: generic launch accelerates threat to Plavix…

CNS Update

Page 16 – News Round-up

Page 19 – Opinion: Elan/Biogen Idec: Tysabri back on the shelves…

Page 20 – Opinion: UCLA: epilepsy ‘brain pacemaker’ won’t outpace drugs…

Page 21 – Opinion: Cephalon: Sparlon rejection could prove a blessing in disguise…

IDI Update

Page 22 – News Round-up

Page 25 – Opinion: Critical Therapeutics: more user-friendly zileuton on the way…

Page 26 – Opinion: Roche/Ipsen: the anti-diabetics race is on…

Page 26 – Opinion: UCB: Cimzia making good progress…

Page 28 – Feature Analysis: AstraZeneca’s Symbicort the first of many new combination drugs to come…

Infectious Diseases Update

Page 30 – News Round-up

Page 32 – Opinion: Crucell: failed vaccine disappoints…

Page 33 – Opinion: Transition Therapeutics: showing potential in hepatitis…

Company Spotlight

Page 34 – Novartis AG

Biotechnology Update

Page 40 – Biotech News Round-up

Page 43 – Feature Analysis: Directed molecular evolution: lifecycle management for biologics…

Company Spotlight

Page 45 – Genzyme Corporation

Index

Page 51 – Pharma companies

Page 51 – Biotech companies

Page 52 – Key drugs