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That's Never Gonna Work

Posted on March 24, 2008

A colleague and I were talking the other day about the (long) list of drugs that have been left for dead at some point during their development. There are some famous cases Lipitor, for example, which wasn t thought by many at Warner-Lambert to have a business case worth even taking into the clinic. But these things are all over the place.One that I know about was Claritin (loratadine). Schering-Plough worked on nonsedating antihistamines for a while, without too much success, and the whole program was eventually killed. The head of research at the time stated flatly: There are no non...

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