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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Earnings Preview: Merck to key on coming new drugs - Businessweek (vintafolide/ovarian cancer)



 Businessweek

Merck & Co., the world's third-biggest drugmaker by revenue, will tout a big surge in the company's pipeline of experimental drugs and a couple of promising new partnerships when it reports first-quarter results before the stock market opens Wednesday.WHAT TO WATCH FOR: CEO Kenneth Frazier will note the company has five new medicines under review by regulators, another just submitted and four others slated to be submitted for review sometime this year.
In addition, the Food and Drug Administration this month gave Merck's experimental cancer drug lambrolizumab a "breakthrough therapy" designation. That's meant to hasten final testing and the review process.
The drugs currently under regulatory review include insomnia pill suvorexant, ovarian cancer drug vintafolide and sugammadex for reversing effects of anesthesia after surgery.......

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