Today’s Top Pharma News 71309

Finally – FDA approves DSI/Lilly blood thinner Effient. Narrow indication with warnings, however – The approval makes Lilly‘s Effient the first real competition to the blood thinner Plavix, the world’s second-best selling medication made by Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb…more

Debate ignited over newer vs. older schizophrenia drugs – Schizophrenia patients given a cheap older drug are less likely to die prematurely than people on newer treatments, despite the older product’s well-known adverse side effects, Finnish researchers said on Monday…more

Sermo and AMA get into a public spat. Who represents doctors, really?

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