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  • Roche confident in Alzheimer’s program, despite Lilly flop

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    Roche said on Wednesday it still believed drugs targeting a protein called beta amyloid had potential to help fight Alzheimer’s disease, despite the high-profile failure of such a product from Eli Lilly. As the setback sent shares in Lilly skidding, Roche pointed out there were significant differences between two experimental Alzheimer’s drugs it was developing…

  • Roche lung cancer drug success adds to pressure on Bristol

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    By Ben Hirschler COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Lung cancer patients on Roche’s immune system-boosting drug Tecentriq lived on average 4.2 months longer than those taking chemotherapy in a pivotal study, pressuring Bristol-Myers Squibb’s dominant position in the field. The trial involved second-line patients, who have already used chemotherapy, and it found the Roche drug worked even…

  • Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake

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    By Makini Brice and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to repair treatment centers and reach the epicenter of one…