Curis stock plunges as drug trial stalls

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… loss shrank by nearly half to $ 1.9 million. But Curis's cancer drug CUDC-427 was put on partial hold by the FDA — negating any chance of enrolling new patients in a phase 1 study. A patient died of liver failure a month after the end of CUDC-427 …
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Doctors say Venezuela's health care in collapse

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Almost everything needed to mend and heal is in critically short supply: needles, syringes and paraffin used in biopsies to diagnose cancer; drugs to treat it; operating room equipment; X-ray film and imaging paper; blood and the reagents needed so it …
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Corcept Therapeutics Announces Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results and …

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MENLO PARK, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/07/13 — Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ: CORT), a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic and psychiatric …
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Dow Closes At New Record High

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Gilead makes a number of drugs, including the influenza treatment Tamiflu and Cayston for cystic fibrosis. But its strong 2012 was driven primarily by the Food and Drug Administration's approval of Gilead's tenofovir/emtricitabine combination drug …
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