Word: thinner
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...other states, the brand-name companies have retained the upper hand. DuPont's allies in Florida, for instance, killed this year's effort by its rival Barr to let pharmacists substitute generics, including its blood thinner warfarin, for four brand-name drugs unless a doctor objects. Minutes after the state senate passed a bill backing Barr's plan in April, a flotilla of DuPont lobbyists converged on Speaker John Thrasher's office. Thrasher had earlier asked Republicans studying the bill to oppose it. Now he refused to let it come up for a vote. With the clock running, allies...
...nearly as long as the Sunshine State has attracted retirees, it has been a rich market for DuPont Pharmaceuticals. The company sells close to $50 million of its blood thinner Coumadin to heart and stroke patients in Florida each year, and it had the market all to itself until 1997. Then the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Barr Laboratories' generic version, and suddenly DuPont's monopoly was threatened...
...medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous--famous for being fat or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
...medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous - famous for being fat, or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
Some of the most promising natural wonder drugs come from compounds not usually associated with healing: poisons. Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...