So what were you up to this weekend. Perhaps you were flying to Hamburg for the BIO shindig? Or throwing back a few half-pints at the (outstanding) Woking Beer Festival? Re-reading "The Naked and the Dead," maybe. Whatever your poison (ours was Tryst Brewery's Carronade IPA) we hope you had a good weekend.- Novo Nordisk tells the Times: Exubera may have gone up in smoke, but inhaled insulin isn't dead yet. We'll be taking an in-depth look at the future of inhaled insulin in the next IN VIVO.
- Medical meeting season rumbles onward; at the American College of Rheumatology, on Saturday, NicOx presented further Phase III data from its '301' study of naproxcinod. Specifically, the company reported positive GI- and blood pressure-related safety and adverse event data for the drug candidate, a nitric oxide-donating form of naproxen that some analysts hail as a blockbuster alternative to the blighted Cox-2s. We've written extensively about naproxcinod here.
- Drug-coated stents are the new eggs. First they're good for you. Then they're bad for you. Now, apparently, good for you again. But manufacturers aren't holding their breath for a massive rebound in sales. The New York Times reports.
- Has Merck been punished adequately in the whole Vioxx debacle? Not everyone thinks so. Pharmagossip rounds up the usual suspects.
