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BioSpace
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Study on GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia Raises Hope For Safer Diabetes Drugs

Martek Biosciences Corporation Hiring at Columbia Headquarters

Roche Holding AG Profit Rises 58% on Lower Integration Costs

FDA "Must Publish All Safety, Efficacy Data From Drug Apps"

Elan Corporation PLC CEO Is Inept, Misleading & Should Go, Investor Says

BioSpace - Breaking News
Antigenics Inc. (Lexington, MA) Receives Delisting Notification

Covidien plc Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Neovacs SA Achieves Key Clinical Milestones in Trials for Lupus & Arthritis

Neovasc Inc. Achieves Key Clinical Milestones in Trials for Lupus & Arthritis

Reckitt Benckiser Plc Agrees to Buy Condom Firm for $3.8 Billion

Biotech News - Business Wire
Orthovita to Present at the Canaccord Genuity 30th Annual Growth Conference

St. Jude Medical Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results

AxioMed Spine Corporation Raises $14.5 Million

MD Buyline Announces Top Vendors for Medical Technology in 2010

International Stem Cell Plans $10 Million Financing Through European Subsidiary

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Expert Challenges FDA to Bring Predictability, Feasibility, and Transparency to Drug Risk Management Process

Reportlinker Adds Bioinformatics Market - Advanced Technologies, Global Forecast and Winning Imperatives (2009 - 2014)

VirtualScopics Added to Russell Microcap Index

Huifeng Bio-Pharmaceutical Technology Announces a New Spain Order

Microbix Signs $2 Million Partnership Agreement For its Livestock Semen Sexing Technology (LumiSort(TM))

Biotechnology - Moreover
Enabling our future: experts to advise Commission on upcoming technologies

Cytos links with Singapore agency to develop flu vaccine

Swiss Cytos Q2 2010 net profit surges on one-time effects

DGAP-News: Cytos Biotechnology Second Quarter Report 2010

A Healthcare Bill Signing Update: iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index 15.8% Below its March 23rd 'Healthcare Bill Signing' Low of $92.17 (IBB)

Burrill Report
European Union Invests in Research and Innovation

Recommendation Reversal

Mannkind Tries Again

GSK To Take $2.36 Billion Charge for Legal Settlements

Companies Give Back First Quarter Gains

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
Study Shows Once-Daily, Extended-Release Formulation of Nevirapine was not Inferior to Twice-Daily VIRAMUNE in Treatment-Naive HIV-1 Infected Patients

Seattle Mom One of Nation's First to Benefit From New Anti-Miscarriage Technology

Protein Important in Diabetes May Also Play a Key Role in Heart Disease, Other Disorders

Representatives of the International Hyperbaric Medical Association Testify Before House Veterans Affairs Committee

International Research Teams Confirm Patented Gymnema Sylvestre Extract Reduces Blood Glucose In Vitro and In Vivo Clinicals

Contract Pharma
Financial Reports: Lonza

Financial Reports: Lilly

Financial Reports: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Buying Into a New Model – Lilly's Alnara Acquisition

Financial Reports: GlaxoSmithKline

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Statement on Avandia TIDE Trial

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

FDA News - Business Wire
Idaho Technology Inc. Launches New Carousel Centrifuge & Workflow Center

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

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
NuPathe plans to raise $75M with IPO

Euthymics lands $24M to fund antidepressant work

Radiation treatment drug granted fast track status

FDA asks NicOx for new naproxcinod trial

Lilly CEO: Pipeline to soften patent losses

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
J&J plant report heightens QC questions

Pharma execs lament European price cuts

Congress: China dropped the ball in heparin probe

FDA orders halt to enrollment in Avandia trial

Endo chief meets healthcare reform head-on

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Research suspended at Columbia lab over GMP violations

Pfizer, Rowan pursue solvent recovery

Plant building, expansions show growing global business

Clerics rule on vaccine containing pig material

Canada sees HIV plant funds redirected to research

FierceVaccines
Funds once earmarked for HIV lab go to research

Encouraging steps in AIDS fight prompt hope for 'renaissance'

HPV shot provides sustained protection against pre-cancerous growths

Emergent facility to work on TB, typhoid vaccines

Funds once earmarked for HIV lab goes to research

Health News - BizJournals.com
Missouri Foundation for Health gets $2M grant to curtail obesity

WhiteGlove releases iPhone app

LabCorp 2Q earnings rise 13 percent

St. Jude Medical Q2 beats estimates, raises guidance

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has excessive surplus, says Consumer Reports publisher

Health News - CNBC
Greece woes hit Baxter International 2Q profit

Stocks surge on upbeat earnings, forecasts

Eli Lilly and Bristol Beat Forecasts on Cost Controls

Irish drugmaker Elan's Q2 loss grows over US suit

Analyst Watch: Stocks For a Strong Second Half

Health News - Fox Business
Repros Therapeutics Up As Firm Plans a Drug Study

St. Jude Medical Shares Up 4.3% On Profit, Outlook

Baxter Leads Drug Stocks North

St. Jude Quarterly Earnings Rise 16%

The New York Times Net Income Falls 18%

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
"Next Generation" HIV/AIDS Treatments Featured in NAPWA and The AIDS Institute's Community Forum at XVIII International AIDS Conference

Nutra Pharma Drug Discovery Subsidiary to Introduce Novel Antiviral Therapy at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria

ICORE Introduces Autoimmune Connections, Industry's First Specialty Pharmacy Management Program for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Other Diseases

Akebia Announces Initiation of Phase 2a Clinical Study of AKB-6548

MDRNA, Inc. Shareholders Approve Acquisition of Cequent Pharmaceuticals

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
Leading Researchers to Share New Treatments at Fragile X International Conference

MedInformatix RIS Improves 60-Year-Old Radiology Business' Cash Flow and Accounts Receivable, Speeding Accounts Receivable on Full Breadth of Imaging Procedures

National AIDS Fund Receives $3.6 Million Social Innovation Fund Award From Corporation for National and Community Service For Access to Care Initiative

Six Researchers to Receive Prestigious Awards From the American Society of Hematology

American Skin Association Receives Major Grant From Galderma to Create New Education Initiative for Tweens and Teens

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
F.D.A. Panel to Vote on Whether Avandia Should Stay on Market

U.S. Tells Glaxo to End Enrollment in Avandia Trial

New Drugs Buoy Hopes in Fighting Hepatitis C

F.D.A. Issues Hold on Avandia Study

GUIDELINES SEEK EARLY DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER'S

OnBioVC
BioScale, Inc.: Series D $25M

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

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
Research and Markets: Tumor Angiogenesis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Targeted Therapy

X-BODY Biosciences and SRU Biosystems Announce Success in Development and Validation of a Novel High-Throughput Label-Free Screening System for Antibody Discovery

Research and Markets: Microfluidic Devices for Nanotechnology Is a Two-Volume Publication, the First Ever to Explore the Synergies Between Microfluidics and Nanotechnology

EKR Therapeutics Names New Executive Team to Lead Company Growth in Critical Care Products Sector of Hospital Marketplace

IMS Expands Oncology Analyzer Offering in China, Providing Comprehensive Treatment Insights for Enhanced Commercial Decision Making

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
16th Congress of the EAHP - Registrations are now open!

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

Pharma News - PR Newswire
HYCOR Biomedical Announces Senior Executive Appointments

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Markets Generic Flomax®

TMC278 Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trials Achieve Primary Objective

Shionogi-ViiV Healthcare LLC Presents Positive Data on Investigational Once-Daily Integrase Inhibitor at International AIDS Conference

Valeant Pharmaceuticals to Announce 2010 Second Quarter Results on August 2, 2010

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Mylan Announces Settlement Agreement for Namenda,

Kellogg Introduces New Antioxidants, Fiber-infused Cereal

Dr. Reddy's Q1 Indian GAAP Stand-Alone Net Profit Rises

UK: Direct-to-Pharmacy (DTP) Pharmaceutical Distribution Analysed in New Report

India Pharmaceuticals And Healthcare Report Q3 2010 - New Market Report Published

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
UIC is First in the Nation to Receive Master's Level CAHIIM...

MakroCare Opens New Office in Singapore

Renowned Dermatologist Dr. Neil Sadick Joins Histogen Scientific...

San Antonio Dentist Earns NeXsmile® 21st Century Dentistry...

QuantiScientifics, LLC (Irvine, CA) will Introduce the A2 Diagnostic...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
IMS Expands Oncology Analyzer Offering in China, Providing...

Ealing Hospital Goes Live with SRC Electronic Discharge Summary...

Origins Recovery Centers Earns Licensure of Inpatient Treatment...

Industry Leading Translation Solution for Regulated Industries Now...

FDA Rejects Another Weight Loss Drug

Scientific American
The New Normal: Average Global Temperatures Continue to Rise

Putting the Sting on Mealy Marauders: Thailand Unleashes South American Wasps to Save Its Cassava Crop [Slide Show]

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

Xconomy Life Sciences
Seven Years Into Personalized Medicine Foray, Mohr Davidow Stays Patient, Keeps Betting on Big Idea

Integrated Diagnostics, Leroy Hood's Latest Startup, Pockets $10M After Hitting Early Goals

Cypress Bio Gets Buyout Offer, Trius Prepares for IPO, Arena Gains Following Vivus Setback, & More San Diego Life Sciences News

Euthymics, Led by Orexigen Vet, Nabs $24M for Depression Drug With Fewer Side Effects

Tekmira and AVI Win Ebola Deals, Mirador's Idea to Prevent Hospital Errors, Tom Ranken's New Mission, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News

Yahoo Biotech News
Benefit confirmed in "bubble boy" treatment (Reuters)

Gene Therapy Shows Promise With 'Bubble Boy' Disease (HealthDay)

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)