Glaxo expects strong growth in year

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Glaxo Wellcome PLC is implementing new marketing projects and awaiting the launch of several new drugs. This is according to Glaxo's chairman, Sir Richard Sykes. The company's new drugs will bring about strong and consistent growth for the next few years. Mr. Sykes would not be more specific as to how much growth he expected for Glaxo. The company posted disappointing results for the first-half of 1999.

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Implementing new marketing projects and awaiting launch of several new drugs

United Kingdom, Strategy & planning, Management, Abstract, Glaxo Wellcome PLC

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Heart drugs' success poses hurdles for their makers

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Cardiovascular medications and therapies have become so advanced that is difficult for researchers to improve on current products. "It is going to be very tough to find new therapies with incremental benefit" says Steven Nissen, a cardiologist and researcher. Cardiovascular agents generate $86 billion in annual revenue or 17 percent of global pharmaceutical sales.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Science & research, Cardiovascular Preparations, Research, International aspects, Cardiovascular agents, Industry forecasts

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Drug maker Cor upstages giants by undercutting

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COR Thereapeutics, a small drug company produces a blood clot inhibitor called Integrillin which has taken the market share from the leaders in the field, Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson. At $450 a dose it is much cheaper than its competitors.

Market share, Consumer prices, Blood Clot Dissolvers, Statistical Data Included, Statistics, Eli Lilly and Co., Johnson & Johnson, LLY, Fibrinolytic agents, JNJ, COR Therapeutics Inc., CORR

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