Obesity ... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the drug companies. Their mission: to help patients shed the pounds, to boldly go where no company has successfully gone before.
Unfortunately, two more drugs got assimilated by the Borg on Wednesday.
Sanofi-Aventis
Farther back in the drug development process, Pfizer
The two companies join Merck
You'd think the news that three large pharmaceutical companies were abandoning the market would help smaller companies developing anti-obesity drugs like Arena's
The anti-obesity market may be a potential supernova for a drugmaker's revenue, but for now, it remains a black hole sucking up drugs and making pipelines thinner.