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Dear readers: You've likely noticed that coverage on Tech Tracks in the past five months has emphasized Microsoft. Now, we're formalizing the Microsoft focus with a new name: Microsoft Pri0. That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Benjamin J. Romano, who has been covering the company for more than two years. Thanks for reading.
November 7, 2007 5:18 PM
Potential rival to Enbrel on the horizon
Posted by Angel Gonzalez
An experimental arthritis therapy known as golimumab showed promising results in a late-stage clinical study for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, Johnson & Johnson unit Centocor and Schering-Plough said Wednesday. The data signals the potential appearance of a new rival to Enbrel, the best-selling treatment developed in Seattle by Immunex and now sold by Amgen.
The compound is designed to be administered less frequently than Enbrel and Abbott Laboratories' Humira (one injection a month, instead of one a week for Enbrel and one every two weeks for Humira). The therapy constitutes an "incremental improvement" over Enbrel and other similar drugs, said Dr. Philip Mease, chief of the Swedish Medical Center's Division of Rheumathology Research in Seattle. Dr. Mease served as an investigator in the trial.
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Bill Gates, who last week ended his full-time involvement with Microsoft, was often right. He made a career, a company and an industry by looking over the horizon.