Month: August 2012

Romney, Ryan hit the road in an energized campaign

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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Romney speaks while vice president select U.S. Congressman Ryan looks on during campaign stop in High PointWAUKESHA, Wisc. (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan home to a tearful welcome in Wisconsin on Sunday in a celebratory event that produced a flash of anger from Romney over what he considers dishonest campaigning by President Barack Obama. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman elevated to Romney's No. 2 on Saturday, wiped away tears and choked up as he and Romney made a dramatic entrance on stage in front of a crowd of around 8,000 to the theme song of the movie, "Air Force One. …

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Acorda MS drug fails goal of post-marketing study

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(Reuters) – Acorda Therapeutics Inc said on Monday that a low-dose version of its multiple sclerosis drug Ampyra did not work in a clinical study, a potentially positive result that will hold generic competition at bay until 2027. A post-marketing study of Ampyra failed to show an improvement in patients’ walking speed when 5 mg of the drug was given twice a day. Had the 5 mg version worked, generic rivals could have entered the market in 2017 or 2018. A 10 mg version of the drug was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2010, and that dose has patent protection until 2027. …

Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal’s drug program

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Doses of methadone are prepared for distribution to patients at the Taipas rehabilitation clinic in LisbonLISBON (Reuters) – Sergio Alves had been off heroin for a year – a tough year to stay clean in Portugal, as the debt-laden country weathered more painful austerity measures after an international bailout and sunk into its worst recession since the 1970s. As tax hikes gnawed into the grocery business he runs with his wife and the stress mounted, Alves relapsed. Now back in rehab, the 30-year-old is glad he can fall back on the free state-run centre for drug addicts, where he says few signs of austerity are visible yet. "The business was bad, my life became just the work-home routine. …

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