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A drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. shown to help prolong the lives of people suffering from advanced skin cancer has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday.The injectable drug, called Yervoy (ipilimumab), is used for late-stage melanoma. Bristol-Myers Squibb aims to use the drug to harness the body's immune system to target and attack melanoma tumors."Yervoy is the first therapy approved by the FDA to clearly demonstrate that patients with metastatic melanoma live...