Taxus

The newly approved Ion stent—known as Taxus Element in Europe—also uses paclitaxel.

Boston Scientific Gets New Stent Approved Jon Kamp 2011

The company didn't break out sales between its own line of stents, called Taxus, and a stent from Abbott that Boston Scientific resells under a license.

Boston Scientific's Profit Jumps 61% 2009

Canyons host important relict species such as Taxus baccata, Tilia platyphyllos, and Populus tremula.

Iberian conifer forests 2007

Excluding some sales return reserves ahead of the domestic Ion launch, Boston Scientific estimated last week that Taxus stents had 14% U.S. market share in the first quarter, compared with 32% for Promus.

Boston Scientific Gets New Stent Approved Jon Kamp 2011

It seems there are many varieties of Taxus baccata, but this may be the upright, or Fastigiata, or so it appears.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

Taxus cuspidata ‘Nana Aurescens’, three of these just added to the zen garden

Late April Mish Mash « Fairegarden 2010

The caption reads “Paths meander around the edge of the garden, past this cloud-pruned yew tree Taxus baccata”.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

Probably a good call not swallowing that yew (Taxus) fruit - the fruit itself is not dangerous but the seed (and foliage) is extremely poisonous!

Travelog Europe: Trees I visited DNLee 2009

Scientists originally isolated the drug paclitaxel — now commonly known as Taxol — in 1967 from the bark of Pacific yew trees (Taxus brevifolia) in a forest near the Mount St. Helens in Washington.

Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt | Impact Lab 2007

It was the same with Abbott's acquisition of Guidant's interventional cardiology business, whose Xience coated stent recently beat out Boston Scientific's Taxus in key clinical trials, and with the $3.7 billion acquisition of cholesterol drug maker Kos Pharmaceuticals in 2006.

Hoping to Defy 2009