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Is There a Global Policy Gap on Cancer?

Eli Lilly thinks so, with a new “back to school” pathway on stakeholder engagement Monday, February 4, is World Cancer Day.  Eli Lilly & Co., one of big Pharma’s biggest, has decided to give the moment its due with the launch of a new policy advocacy initiative to ensure that patients actually benefit from the [...]
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Fixing Innovation: Lilly's CEO Says Why, and How

Following his keynote address last week at the Financial Times US Healthcare and Life Sciences Conference in New York, Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter huddled into a corridor to speak with PharmExec about his agenda as incoming chairman of PhRMA, and how to fix innovation.
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CETP Inhibitors: Blockbusters that Never Ran?

The news that Roche scrapped development on its CETP inhibitor dalcetrapib, a drug designed to raise HDL cholesterol in the blood, likely presages the shuttering of Lilly’s development program for its CETP inhibitor, evacetrapib, industry experts and analysts say.
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Saving Haiti: One Donation at a Time (UPDATED 1/21)

Image by American Red Cross via Flickr It’s been less than three days since new broke of a massive earthquake in Haiti that all but leveled the struggling country. With thousands dead, a devastated infrastructure, and no emergency plan, countries and businesses around the world have joined in the effort to help the Haitian people with [...]
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Lilly Osteoporosis Drug Canned in Phase III Trials

Image by go elsewhere… via Flickr Lilly, on Wednesday, announced that it would not seek regulatory approval for its osteoporosis treatment arzoxifene, because the drug failed to meet certain end points in Phase III clinical trials. The good news is that the drug was successful in meeting the primary end point of the trial, dubbed “GENERATIONS.” [...]
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