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Information, timeline, and links to articles about disputes involving Taxol.
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Disputes involving Paclitaxel, a cancer drug sold under
different brand names, including Taxol.
August 23, 2001. James Love and Suzannah Markandya.
June 9, 2003. Report prepared by the General Accounting Office for
Technology Transfer: NIH-Private Sector Partnership in the Development of Taxol.
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An article from the Florida State University Office of Research detailing the history of the drug's development. Includes photos.
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The tortured trail of the best-selling cancer drug in history began 40 years ago this summer. A thunder-clap of uncommon science and luck, it's a grand story still in the telling.
ABOVE: Survivors: Pacific yews, spared from a fevered campaign to exploit the tree for a life-saving drug found in its
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Information, side effects, and interactions.
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TAXOL® (paclitaxel) should be administered under the supervision of a physician experienced in the use of cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Appropriate management of complications is possible only when adequate diagnostic and treatment facilities are readily available.
Anaphylaxis and severe
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