Merck says cholesterol drug failed to show benefit

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Cowen & Co. analyst Steve Scala noted that the current statin treatment is a "high bar for a trial to overcome due to the substantial risk reduction associated with these drugs." Scala said in a research note that the uncertainty around the Tredaptive …
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Please stop making "Josh Hamilton in L.A." drug wisecracks

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It's not hard. The battle is not distancing yourself from them in a geographic sense. It's about keeping them out of your personal space, both physically and mentally. Hamilton will battle addiction in L.A. like he did in Dallas and Cincinnati and …
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Medical commander looks forward to his retirement

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Dallas Hack, director of the Army's Combat Casualty Care Research Program, met Gilman when the two worked on a project about a decade ago to find a treatment for a skin infection caused by sand fly bites called leishmaniasis. The infection was …
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