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5/12 Europe Could See Generic Plavix By June
Sanofi Drops on Schweizerhall Plans for Plavix Copy … working with a ``major generics company'' and expects to start selling the product, called clopidogrel, this quarter …[Bloomberg]
Sanofi-Aventis Vows To Defend Plavix Patents … license agreement with a major generics company has already been concluded and the signing of a contract with another generics provider is imminent  …[ CNN]
Sanofi hit by generic Plavix threat in Europe … Swiss generic drug company, said on Friday it was close to winning approval for a generic version ... hopes to launch the cut-price generic medicine before the end of June…[Reuters]
Editor's Note: Adds that Plavix patent is good until 2013 but the generic company, Schweizerhall, plans on launch anyway because its version does not infringe on any of Sanofi's patents.

5/12 Doc Tells Why He Stopped Speaking For Money
Doctors Reject Drug Company Cash … age-old tradition -- taking money from drug companies. These doctors used to get paid for making speeches. But they say they're reclaiming their tarnished credibility. Madeleine Brand talks to Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about his decision …[NPR]

5/12 Lilly Buyout Offer
335 Eli Lilly employees accept buyout offer from drug maker … announced last month that it was offering the buyouts, which it called a "voluntary exit program," to about 2,000 employees …[AP]

5/12 143 Million Doses Of Flu Vaccine Planned For 2008 Flu Season
Flu vaccine makers to set new doses record for next season ...plan to make at least 143 million doses for the 2008-2009 season. They made 140 million doses for the current season …[AP]

5/12 Swede Government Has Monopoly On Drugstores
Sweden OKs dismantling pharmacy monopoly … plans to restructure Sweden's state-owned pharmacy chain Apoteket in a first step toward ending the monopoly on sales of over-the-counter drugs, a Parliament spokesman …[BusinessWeek]

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5/12 Heparin: FDA Accused Of Stonewalling
FDA Withholds List of Chinese Heparin Suppliers From Probe … The FDA is withholding from congressional investigators a list of Chinese heparin suppliers, raising tensions between it and lawmakers ……[Wall Street Journal; $$$]

5/12 Heparin Price Skyrockets
Recalls, tight supplies doubling heparin's cost … costs for China-sourced crude heparin have risen 500 percent since early 2007…[IndyStar]

5/12 Vaptans: Vasopressin-Receptor Antagonists
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