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	<title><![CDATA[Teva, In Turnabout, Sues to Protect Its Multiple Sclerosis Drug Copaxone]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Is this a rare case of Teva Pharmaceutical being forced to swallow its own bitter medicine? The world's largest generic manufacturer, with a core...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:45:33 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[AstraZeneca's New Blog Is Slammed by Critics]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[AstraZeneca (AZN) has launched a blog -- AZ Health Connections -- and the critics don't like it. There have only been five posts on it since Oct....]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:26:00 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Aiming for 30,900 Layoffs Through 2012]]></title>
	<link>http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005173/pfizer-aiming-for-30900-layoffs-through-2012/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Pfizer has laid off 26,300 employees since 2005, and hopes eventually to lay off a total of 30,900 through 2012, according to its 10-Q filing with...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:00 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Laid-Off Merck Staff: Did You Get Your $112,000?]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[It has cost Merck roughly $112,366 to lay off each of 4,310 executives since it announced a restructuring program late last year, according to an...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:16 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Unveils Shiny New "Leaping" Logo]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Pfizer (PFE), fresh from consummating its merger with Wyeth (WYE), has unveiled a new logo. Don't get too excited -- it looks a lot like the old logo.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:45:41 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[In Risperdal Kickback Case, One Nursing Home Patient Received 67 Different Drugs]]></title>
	<link>http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005149/in-risperdal-kickback-case-one-nursing-home-patient-received-67-different-drugs/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The scariest wrinkle in the Omnicare kickback case is just how vulnerable old people in nursing homes are to schemes in which drug companies...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:19 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[How Drug Advertising Restrictions Could Benefit the Industry]]></title>
	<link>http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005144/how-drug-advertising-restrictions-could-benefit-the-industry/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The drug business spends $5 billion a year on advertising and yet studies continue to emerge suggesting that hundreds of millions of those dollars...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:54:24 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Has Genta's Energizer Bunny of Cancer Drugs Finally Run Out of Juice?]]></title>
	<link>http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005135/has-gentas-energizer-bunny-of-cancer-drugs-finally-run-out-of-juice/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The most surprising thing about last week's Phase III failure of beleaguered cancer drug Genasense was that Genta's stock plummeted. Seriously, who...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:00:19 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Trista Morrison</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Amateur Hour at Merck: FDA Refuses to Look at Zetia-Lipitor Combo Pill]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Merck was sent back to the drawing board on its new Zetia-Lipitor combo drug when the FDA refused to accept its application. That's an unheard of...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:53:11 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[AZ Promoted Seroquel as Superior to Haldol When Company Data Said It Wasn't]]></title>
	<link>http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005119/az-promoted-seroquel-as-superior-to-haldol-when-company-data-said-it-wasnt/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[An AstraZeneca (AZN) executive warned in an internal email that the company's data did not show its antipsychotic drug Seroquel was superior to an...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:27 PST</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Edwards</dc:creator>
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