Companies that develop medicines have been bleeding jobs in the last few months, with three — Biogen Idec, Charles River Laboratories and NicOx — announcing about 1,000 new workforce cuts this week. When will the bleeding sto…
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis says its multiple sclerosis drug teriflunomide significantly cut relapses in patients who took the once-daily oral treatment.
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After a long wait, the FDA has OK’d Novartis’s Gilenya as a first-line treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis — the disease’s most common form. MS affects over 400,000 Americans and more than 2.1 million people wo…