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BioSpace
Legal Charge Slashes GlaxoSmithKline Quarterly Profit, Said to Have Paid $1 Billion Over Paxil Suits

New Way to Target Viruses Could Make Antiviral Drugs More Effective, University of Edinburgh Study

HPV Vaccine Gives Prolonged Protection Against Genital Warts and Low-Grade Pre-Cancerous Growths, Study in

Unlocking The Secrets Of Cellular Energy Holds Promise For Obesity, Diabetes And Cancer, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Study

New Genetic Marker of Ovarian Cancer Risk Discovered By Yale University Researchers

BioSpace - Breaking News
Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to Webcast Conference Call on Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Gilead Sciences, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. Release: Prochymal New Drug Submission Granted Priority Review by Health Canada

Two Industry Leaders - Proliant Inc. and Lampire Biological Laboratories, Inc. - Form Strategic Partnership to Provide Bovine Serum Albumin

BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Closing of Public Offering and Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

Biotech News - Business Wire
Synovis Life Technologies Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Exact Sciences to Host Second-Quarter 2010 Conference Call

BioMimetic Therapeutics Announces Closing of Public Offering and Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

Vascular Solutions to Present at the 30th Annual Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders Selects CaridianBCT's Mirasol® Pathogen Reduction Technology System

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Chimerix Appoints Two New Vice Presidents to Clinical Management Team

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Appointment of Joseph Feczko, M.D. to Board of Directors

Keck Graduate Institute Receives $3.6 Million NIH Grant

Precision Antibody Selected to Provide Antibody Characterization for National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomics Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) Initiative

United Therapeutics Corporation to Announce Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results Before Market Open on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Biotechnology - Moreover
A5 Labs Signs Analytical Services Contract With BioActif Inc.

SemBioSys names Pierce U.S., Int'l president

Vietnamese biotech has a healthy future

OXiGENE has the Highest Upside Potential in the Biotechnology Industry (OXGN, RXII, PRAN, PPHM, XOMA)

NAWG Leaders Attend USW Meeting to Talk Trade, Biotech

Burrill Report
GSK To Take $2.36 Billion Charge for Legal Settlements

Companies Give Back First Quarter Gains

Private Equity Looks to Vitamins for Strength

Scientists Develop First Malaria-Proof Mosquito

Common Class of Meds Can Impair Aging Brain

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Survey: Researchers Value Training

Partnership Assists Patient Recruitment

Saint Joseph's Opens Phase I Unit in Atlanta

UBC to Continue Growth Strategy with New $150 Million in Funding

Victoria University launches Clinical Research Diploma

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Applied Spine Technologies Receives Notice of Patent Allowance for Travel Limiting Functionality in Dynamic Stabilization Devices

Cleveland HeartLab to Host First Annual Symposium on Cardiovascular Disease

nSpire Health Generates Exceptional Profit Growth

Maven Semantic: The Largest Database of International Arthritis Research Professionals

U-Systems Launches www.somoinsightstudy.org, Supporting a Breast Cancer Screening Clinical Study for Women with Dense Breast Tissue

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Initiates a Phase 3 Carfilzomib Combination Trial in Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

Innovative Partnership Helps Improve Medical Research by Optimizing Clinical Trials

Medical Device Consultants, Inc. and Clinical Development & Support Services Ltd Announce Strategic Partnership

Report Warns Flat Global Funding for HIV Prevention Research May Limit Ability of Researchers to Move Promising Approaches Forward

New Standard of National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program

Contract Pharma
Financial Reports: GlaxoSmithKline

Financial Reports: Genzyme Corp.

Vantage, Lipo Merge

Encorium Acquires Progenitor

Executive Moves: iMANY

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: New boxed warning for severe liver injury with arthritis drug Arava (leflunomide)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: New risk management plan and patient Medication Guide for Qualaquin (quinine sulfate)

Peramivir Emergency Use Authorization Disposition Letter and Question and Answer Attachment

Tamiflu and Relenza Emergency Use Authorization Disposition Letters and Question and Answer Attachments

CDER Key Officials List

FDA News - Business Wire
Fera Pharmaceuticals Strengthens Product Pipeline with Acquisition of Investigational New Drug

BSD Medical Provides Information Requested by FDA for the MicroThermX Ablation System 510(k) Submission

Genzyme Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2010

Genentech Provides Update from Avastin FDA Advisory Committee Meeting

Biomoda Files Patent Application

FDA Press Releases
FDA and Other Federal Agencies Collaborate to Improve Chemical Screening

New Jersey Woman Sentenced for Committing Insurance Fraud and Selling Prescription Fertility Drugs via the Internet

Spanish: Federal Agents Seize Bee-Shield Hand Sanitizer from Puerto Rican Company

Federal Agents Seize Bee-Shield Hand Sanitizer from Puerto Rican Company

FDA: New Final Rule to Ensure Egg Safety, Reduce Salmonella Illnesses Goes Into Effect

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Medical Device Recall: Cobe Spectra Apheresis System Disposable Tubing Sets

GLASSIA

CSL Biotherapies Untitled Letter

June 2, 2010 Approval Letter - Havrix

June 2, 2010 Approval Letter - Engerix

FierceBiotech
Shionogi, GSK move HIV drug into PhIII

Milestones mitigate risk in biotech deals

NovaBay's impetigo drug aces Phase II trial

Cara rounds up $15M for post-op pain drug

Merck buys vax unit from bankrupt Hawaii Biotech

FierceBiotech IT
Early dialogue with regulators key in global trials

Report: Big pharma drives adoption of digital signatures

Sloppy dialysis app earns #2 in breach ranking

Scientists take on Web 2.0 cure claims

Group uses Internet, phone for trial recruitment

FierceBiotech Research
Researchers combat aging as a "stem cell disease"

Scotland looks to beef up life sciences sector

iPSC use may be limited by 'memory'

Study: Ecstacy may be useful in PTSD therapy

Researchers plan to use iPS cells to combat Parkinson's

FiercePharma
GSK settles Paxil suits for reported $1B

FDA panel votes to yank Avastin indication

Takeda paid Avandia panelist who voted to withdraw

Pfizer finds buyer for NY skyscraper

Decentralized NHS could be a sales-rep boon

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Doc jailed for peddling fake weight-loss pills

UK regulator sounds cold chain alarm

Stability tests prompt Bausch & Lomb ReNu recall

Latest FDA 483 report shows spread of J&J quality woes

Laid off McNeil plant workers can bid for other J&J jobs

FierceVaccines
Funds once earmarked for HIV lab goes to research

Microneedle tech studied for administrating flu vax

Project BioShield's vax programs on the chopping block

Two new antibodies may lead to HIV/AIDS vaccine

Computer scientist engineers tame type of live vax

Health News - BizJournals.com
Cephalon says 2Q stronger than anticipated

Johnson & Johnson subpoenaed in Tylenol recall probe

Lawsuit, restructuring costs push GlaxoSmithKline to $500M loss

NovaBay drug works well against skin infection

Lobbying in NY nears $200M

Health News - CNBC
BioMimetic raises $45 million in stock offering

Strong earnings from Apple send stock futures up

Cephalon raises 2Q earnings, sales expectations

Ahead of the Bell: Gilead Sciences declines

Quest 2Q earnings rise, but outlook pummels shares

Health News - Fox Business
Gilead Shares Fall On Quarterly Sales Report

Stryker Shares Drop 8% As Revenue Comes Up Short

Genzyme's Second-quarter Profit Drops

Abbott Q2 Net Income Flat, Sales Rise 18%

Quest Diagnostics Second-quarter Earnings Up 7%

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Flamel Technologies Announces Projected Release Date of Second Quarter Results; Conference Call

Chembio to Host Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Radient Pharmaceuticals Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement With AMDL Australia Pty Ltd.

MorphoSys to Host Q2 2010 Conference Call on July 28, 2010

Pharming publishes Financial Report First Half Year 2010

MassBio News
MassBio President Bob Coughlin speaks about the Co-Pay Assistance Bill on Greater Boston (WGBH)

MassBio President Bob Coughlin speaks about the Pharmaceutical Coupon Bill with Greater Boston on WGBH

FDA, CMS Memorandum of Understanding Released

Gaming for Good at Summer Camp

International partnership brings fresh faces

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
MACPAC Convenes Its First Orientation Meeting and Names Lu Zawistowich, Sc.D., New Executive Director

ID Experts Announces RADAR: A HITECH Risk Assessment Tool for Healthcare Security Breach Incidents Affecting Patient Privacy

Nektar to Announce Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2010 On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, After Close of U.S.-Based Financial Markets

Netter Products Expand Offerings to Include Interactive Online and Mobile Technologies

Americans Believe Their Social Life and Safety Would Suffer Most From a Hearing Loss, Sex Life Not So Much, HearUSA Survey Finds

National Center for Biotechnology Information
dbGaP News and Announcements

NCBI News

Bookshelf News

dbVar News and Announcements

Genome Reference Consortium News

Nature Biotechnology
Sunshine on conflicts

Ask your doctor

PeptideClassifier for protein inference and targeted quantitative proteomics

Minimum information about a protein affinity reagent (MIAPAR)

Merck ditches biogeneric

New York Times- Biotechnology
Europeans Seek to Ease Wide Ban on Biotech Crops

Europe’s New Approach to Biotech Food

Europe Seeks New Approach to Biotech Crops

European Union Seeks New Approach to Biotech Crops

THE GENOME AT 10; Awaiting the Genome Payoff

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
GUIDELINES SEEK EARLY DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER'S

Panel Urges End to Avastin Use in Breast Cancer

Drug Patent Settlements

Drug Patent Agreements

Drug Trials Test Bold Plan to Slow Alzheimer’s

OnBioVC
Delphinus Medical Technologies, LLC: Series A $8M

ReVision Optics, Inc.: Series D $35M

TPP Global Development, Ltd.: Series A $12.2M

Stemgent, Inc.: Series B $5.6M

Coronado Biosciences, Inc.: Series C $3.9M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Data, patients and payers key to New Health success, says Quintiles

Safety and value driving Phase IV growth at CROs; EVP

Potential for trials in Russia "enormous", says ClinStar

US presence is a must for biologics producers, says Recipharm

Liquent and Take Solutions team on regulatory submissions

Pharma News - Business Wire
NovaMed Announces Second Quarter 2010 Conference Call

unithink NV breidt wereldwijde activiteiten uit om tegemoet te komen aan de vraag naar eClinical-producten en diensten

HighRes Biosolutions Announces Chinese Distributor Agreement with Tekon Biotech Ltd

unithink NV étend ses opérations mondiales en vue de répondre ŕ la demande pour ses produits et ses services e-Clinical

GE Launches Study to Improve Diagnosis of Early Stage Colon Cancer

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Heart Valve Surgery Refusal Rate to Increase to 30% Worldwide by 2015 Says New Report

PRESS RELEASE 20 July 2010: Beremans Ltd announces publication of Malaria vaccines: commercial prospects and landscape analysis.

WEGO HEALTH TO SPONSOR NING HEALTH NETWORKS

New Wound Care Products Entering Market at Lightening Speed Says Latest Report

8% of World's Medicines are Manufactured in India Says New Report

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Latina Actress and Author Dayanara Torres Launches Online Asthma Education Resource for Hispanic Community in Partnership with Merck and AAFA

Enigma Diagnostics to Feature the Enigma ML at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Expo in Anaheim, California 25 to 29 July 2010

SPX Completes Acquisition of Anhydro

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Markets Generic Wellbutrin SR® Extended Release Tablets

AstraZeneca and Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. Provide Medicines to Missouri's Uninsured

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
8% of Worlds Medicines are Manufactured in India Says New Report

Kalbe Farma gets Rp 113 billion from sales of unit

Asia to Dominate the Future Growth in Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing

Air-con partly to blame for dry skin

Radient Pharmaceuticals Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement With AMDL Australia Pty Ltd. / Newest Commercialization Milestone Brings RPC's Onko-Sure(TM) IVD Cancer Test to Australia and New Zealand Markets

PR Leap - Biotech
Vivante GMP Solutions Announces Expansion of Technical Staff

Vivante GMP Solutions Announces Successful Completion of GMP Manufacture, Lot Release Campaign

SourceSolution Announces the Implementation of the PlanIt Partner Portal for Vivante GMP Solutions

Vivante GMP Solutions Announces Successful Completion of GMP Fill/Finish, Lot Release Campaign for Etubics Corporation

Vivante GMP Solutions, Aseptic Technologies Team Up To Address Viral Fill Opportunities

PRWeb - Biotechnology
DuPont Chief Innovation Officer: Collaboration on Clean Energy...

Roswell Park Team Receives Grant from National Cancer Institute to...

Chenomx to Offer Free Compound Libraries

EM Photonics Announces Partnership with PSSC Labs

The MedZilla Report for July 2010 - Rate of New Health Care Jobs...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
PAT and Laboratory Automation in Pharmaceutical and Chemical...

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science to Launch New...

NeedyMeds Announces New Source of Information on Financial Assistance...

National Contest Encourages People with Depressive Symptoms of Bipolar...

John Parnell Appointed to President and COO of Parnell...

Scientific American
2 Genes Linked to Embryonic Brain Impairment in Down's Syndrome

Can Climate Change Cause Conservation

A Magnetic Remote Control That Can Rewind A Worm's Wriggle

Heat of the Moment: How Much Global Warming Are We Willing to Take

Scourge of the Jellies: Small Fish Shows How Ecosystems Adjust to Potentially Catastrophic Changes [Video]

Xconomy Life Sciences
Cara Therapeutics Captures $15M

Tethys Snags $33M in Equity, Debt for Predictive Diabetes Test

Biotech on a Shoestring: How Companies Are Pinching Pennies in the New Reality

XL Hybrids Gets $300K, BP Acquires Verenium's Cellulosic Biofuels Business, NE Q2 Venture Investing Slims Down, & More Boston-Area Deals News

Genentech Fails to Sway FDA Panel

Yahoo Biotech News
Cigarette Smoke May Up Cancer Risk By Interfering With Genes (HealthDay)

Certain genes linked to kidney disease in blacks (Reuters)

New Clues to How Cancer Patients' Genes Influence Treatment (HealthDay)

Cigarette Smoke Jolts Hundreds of Genes, Researchers Say (LiveScience.com)

European ministers to discuss GM crop deadlock: EU (AFP)