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Pfizer has thrown in the towel on inhalable insulin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cafe Du Monde will continue to market inhalable sugar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Update: Ooh! Snap! Nektar Therapeutics, Pfizer’s partner on Exubera, didn’t find out about Pfizer’s decision to bail on the drug until the announcement this morning<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pfizer has thrown in the towel on inhalable insulin. Cafe Du Monde will continue to market inhalable sugar. (Update: Ooh! Snap! Nektar Therapeutics, Pfizer’s partner on Exubera, didn’t find out about Pfizer’s decision to bail on the drug until the announcement this morning!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-new-orleans","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ro","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2096,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mobil-eyes","url_meta":{"origin":1698,"position":0},"title":"Mobil Eyes","author":"Gil","date":"June 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't take any pix yesterday when I went to NYC to interview an exec at Pfizer, but that doesn't mean I didn't see any neat stuff. 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