They have just completed a breakthrough treatment for mental illness whereby a damaged brain has been removed from the body, surgically altered, then successfully reintroduced into the patient's skull.

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering and developing breakthrough treatments for human disease.

Over the years, Lexicon evolved from a genomics company into a drug discovery and development company focused on discovering and developing breakthrough treatments for human disease.

"The agency remains committed to working with companies who are developing breakthrough treatments that will have a significant impact on patient care in the U.S."

She said the United States supported efforts to find breakthrough treatment and cures for disease but that it felt scientific progress was possible without posing a "threat to human dignity."

Through his work with them, he developed a breakthrough treatment for diphtheria which cut his patients' mortality rate in half and was quickly adopted throughout the medical profession.

Instead, the winners this decade have been biotechnology companies that have found breakthrough treatments for debilitating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.

Difficult dosing, a higher cost, and the need for frequent lung-function tests likely damped enthusiasm for this breakthrough treatment.

And Merck's Proscar, a breakthrough treatment for noncancerous enlarged prostate glands, has been slow off the mark.

Industry executives said that Medicare patients deserved quick access to breakthrough treatments that might improve the quality of their lives.