Enbrel, Etanercept News

Feb. 13, 2012 -- Children with juvenile arthritis develop cancer four times more often than children without the disease, but the treatments they receive -- including biologic treatments like Enbrel -- may not explain their increased risk, according to a new study.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a serious and dangerous disease. But so are pharma's immune-suppressing biologic drugs like Remicade, Enbrel, and Humira, which are pushed for treating it.

I initiated coverage of Antares on December 8, 2011 with a buy rating. Important factors driving my recommendation were its broad based relationship with Teva for developing injectable pharmaceuticals and the recently approved Anturol, a gel based product for urinary incontinence.

So far this has been a great year for biotech, as investors have been more than happy to look past the risks and embrace the opportunities in the pipeline.

There is no point in asking if a Big Pharma company will go through its trial by fire , it's just a question of when.

BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Tuesday.

Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is being widely mocked for a bill to ban the use of human embryonic tissue in the production or research of food.

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. , announced today that new clinical data on taliglucerase alfa will be presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Lysosomal Disease Network: WORLD Symposium 2012 being held February 8-10 in San Diego, California.

Drug-induced lupus is one of the most widely described drug-induced rheumatologic syndromes.1,2 It has been estimated that up to 10% of systemic lupus erythematosus cases are drug induced, which approximates to 15,000 to 30,000 cases per year.3,4 Sulfadiazine was the first drug to be implicated in the causation of lupus in 1945.5 A definite ... (more)

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