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BioSpace
Generex Biotechnology Corporation Provides Positive Update On Oral-Lyn(TM) Pivotal Phase III Trial

Morphine Blocks Tumor Growth, University of Minnesota Study

One Molecule, Many More Insulin-Producing Cells To Treat Diabetes, Says University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Team

Allos Therapeutics, Inc.'s Cancer Drug, Folotyn Extends Lung Cancer Survival

EMD Serono, Inc., Merck KGaA Says FDA Grants Priority Review to Cladribine Tablets for the Treatment of Relapsing Forms of MS

BioSpace - Breaking News
ArQule, Inc. Announces Initiation by Kyowa Hakko Kirin of Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Asia with ARQ 197 in Gastric Cancer

Pharmasset, Inc. Initiates Phase 1b Multiple Ascending Dose Clinical Trial of PSI-938 in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

Limerick BioPharma Inc. Announces Positive Phase 1b Data for LIM-0705 in Preventing Toxicities Associated with the Transplant Drug, Tacrolimus

DiaMedica Inc. Announces Autoimmune Program With Positive Rheumatoid Arthritis Results

EpiCept Corporation Amends Employment Agreement and Completes Severance Agreements with Executive Officers

Biotech News - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Multiscale Modeling of Particle Interactions: Applications in Biology and Nanotechnology

Abiomed First Quarter Fiscal 2011 Earnings and Conference Call Notification

HemoBioTech Announces New Patent for Treating Acute Blood Loss

Bruker Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and First Half Year of 2010

Exact Sciences Reports Second-Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Boston Scientific Launches Neuroform EZ(TM) Stent System in U.S. and Europe

PharmaNet Development Group Appoints Dr. Wolfgang Renz, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations

Teva Respiratory Announces Positive Results From Phase III Trial of BDP HFA Nasal Aerosol in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis

Isolux Corsan Awarded a Contract for the Construction of an Ethanol Plant in Colombia

Shawn Cross Appointed CEO of Burrill Merchant Banking Group

Biotechnology - Moreover
Generex Biotechnology Surges on Hopes for Insulin Spray

Series B raises $32 million for Immune Design vaccines

Formulation contract consolidates BNC's pharma offering

Lucky Picks of The Day: (NASDAQ:GNBT)- (OTCBB:EGCT)- (OTCBB:RPBC)

PharmaNet Development Group Collaborates With Abacus International

Burrill Report
Gel is Promising in Preventing HIV Infections

Reckitt Gets Its Mojo Rising

Pfizer Halts Trial of Pain Drug

Investors Weigh Biotech Results

Clean Living

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
PharmaNet in collaboration with Abacus International

BIO Ventures for Global Health expands to West Coast

ACRO hails proposed privacy rule to help simplify clinical research

Biotech sector garners $1.3 billion in quarterly venture capital investing, up 59%

Survey: Researchers Value Training

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Exact Sciences Methylation Detection Technology Achieves 100 Percent Sensitivity, Specificity

iMedicor Launches Phase I Product Marketing Program for MuGard

Research and Markets: Patient and Investigator Recruitment Success - Now Available

MannKind Corporation to Hold 2010 Second Quarter Financial Results

Research and Markets: Taiwan In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2016

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Chimerix's CMX157 Shows Potential to Treat Multi-Drug-Resistant HIV and Improve the Activity and Toxicity Profile of Tenofovir

Research Shows Controversial Illness is Real and Treatable

Don't Blame the PSA Test for the 'Overtreatment' of Prostate Cancer

Cerebral Palsy Study Dispels Inflated Costs and Biases

Promise for Herpes, Staph Sufferers Shown in Probiotic-Derived Immune Support Supplement

Contract Pharma
Astellas, Regeneron Extend Antibody Tech Pact

EMD Serono’s Cladribine Tablets Get Priority Review

Financial Report: Hospira 2Q

Financial Report: PPD 2Q

Lundbeck Extends Medidata EDC Contract

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
ACT Files Documentation With FDA for Clinical Trials Using ES Cells to Treat Eye Disease

Medtronic's AMPLIFY rhBMP-2 Matrix Receives Positive Votes from FDA Advisory Panel on All Three Key Questions: Safety, Effectiveness and Benefit/Risk

Genzyme Encouraged by CMS Decision to Delay Oral Drug Inclusion in Dialysis Patient Benefit

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Receives Five Generics Industry Awards for Customer Value and Service Excellence

PPD and Microsoft to Deliver Innovative REMS Solution Based on Microsoft Technologies

FDA Press Releases
New Early Detection System Helps FDA Identify More than 100 Food Safety Problems in First 7 Months

Federal Agents Seize FastSize Extenders and FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitors

Pennsylvania Dairy Farm Agrees to Stop Improper Medication

FDA Approves First Generic Enoxaparin Sodium Injection

Federal Government Seizes Cyanide Antidote Kits from California Company

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
FluMist

Medical Device Recall: Cobe Spectra Apheresis System Disposable Tubing Sets

GLASSIA

CSL Biotherapies Untitled Letter

June 2, 2010 Approval Letter - Havrix

FierceBiotech
Illumina nabs Helixis' gene tech in $105M buyout deal

Merck KGaA back on track with MS drug

Top 5 Biotech VC Deals of 2010

Ambit taps Alan Lewis as CEO

Regeneron inks $295M antibody discovery deal with Astellas

FierceBiotech IT
NCI plans clinical trial system reforms

European academic researchers using CDMSs; Partners combine e-clinical, EHR software;

E-clinical solution adds mobility, language support

Cancer trials halted amid investigations

Service locates lost trial subjects, data

FierceBiotech Research
Wistar blueprints big expansion

Nasal spray vax for meningitis may offer cheap alternative

"Longevity gene" used to cure Alzheimer's in mice

Researchers ID a key culprit in the aging process

Study: Animal molecule in drugs triggers immune response

FiercePharma
Primary care docs want samples from reps

Merck aims for growth in China with Sinopharm

Novo's Victoza drains new scrips from rivals

Kidney rules exempt oral meds from Amgen, Genzyme

U.S. courts aren't kind to Sanofi on Zimulti, Lovenox

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Bill to boost chemical safety may burden manufacturers

India seeks anti-fakes tools to preserve reputation

Congress's heparin "shock" will hamper Hamburg in China

Genzyme shows fight in manufacturing comeback

Cellexus joins disposables fray

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
Carrington College opens Pomona campus

HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals raises $4M

SLU names School of Public Health dean

Welshimer proposes plan to manage jail population

Mount Sinai Q2 profit climbs

Health News - CNBC
ViroPharma 2Q net income jumps on Cinryze sales

Allos Therapeutics 2Q loss widens on costs

Earnings Preview: Amgen to report 2nd-qtr results

Owens & Minor shares slide on Baird downgrade

Six in 60 Seconds: Dreamworks, Alcon and More...

Health News - Fox Business
Counting Obama's Wins

Bristol-Myers Sees 6% Drop in 2Q Earnings

Human Genome Climbs On Upgrade

Repros Therapeutics Up As Firm Plans a Drug Study

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

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Macada Holding, Inc. Announces Anthony Mellone Resigns After Securing New Bio-Skin Eye and Skin Product

Analyst Research on Celgene and Amgen -- a Quick Overview in the Biotech Industry

Analytical Reports on Human Genome Science and Genzyme -- Biotech Stocks Under Stress

Nutra Pharma Receives Patent for Novel Antiviral Treatment Using Modified Cobra Venom

Elsevier Business Intelligence's IN3 Summit Will Offer Partnering Opportunities for Medtech Innovators With Top Investors and Corporate Acquirers in San Francisco on October 27-29, 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
JOINT STATEMENT from the American Academy of Optometry Section on Cornea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies and the American Optometric Association Contact Lens and Cornea Section Concerning Cosmetic 'Circle' Contact Lenses

IBM and UPMC Partner to Make 'Smart' Patient Room Even Smarter

Medicare Healthcare Information Technology Update Free Educational Webinar for Community Oncology Practices

Webster Provides Credit Enhancement for $20,185,000 CHEFA Bond Financing to Hospital for Special Care

Sanford Health and WebMD Announce Partnership to Educate Parents, Children and Professionals on Health, Nutrition and Fitness

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
Exploring Algae as Fuel

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
South Africa Redoubles Efforts Against AIDS

A Promising AIDS Preventive

F.D.A. Panel Urges Limits For Avastin

Lifesaving Medications, Through a Back Door

African Studies Give Women Hope in H.I.V. Fight

OnBioVC
Reinnervate, Ltd.: Series A $2M

Noxxon Pharma, AG: Series D $40M

Palmaz Scientific, Inc.: Series A $3M

Phreesia, Inc.: Series D $16M

Coskata, Inc.: Series D $23.7M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Biomarkers indispensible in cancer drug development, says Quintiles

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

Pharma News - Business Wire
Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. Provides Market Update

MedTera and HealthPrize Partner to Engage, Educate and Incentivize Patients on Medication Adherence

NextDocs Corporation Honored as a Microsoft Life Sciences Partner of the Year

Limerick BioPharma Announces Positive Phase 1b Data for LIM-0705 in Preventing Toxicities Associated with the Transplant Drug, Tacrolimus

Research and Markets: Chinese Markets for OTC Drugs

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Atopic Dermatitis Knowledge Centre is launched on EPG website for doctors

Allergan Receives European Medicines Agency Authorisation for OZURDEX® Biodegradable, Injectable Steroid Implant with Extended Drug Release for Retinal Disease

ASCEND: launch of a new training resource for nurses managing asthma in primary care

Mobility Loss Leads to Reduced Productivity and Earnings for People Living with Multiple Sclerosis

NICE gives green light to MabThera® (rituximab) for wider use in patients with most common chronic leukaemia1

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Bioniche Pharma and Synerx Launch Isosulfan Blue Injection 1%

Breckenridge Pharmaceutical to Market Methylphenidate Oral Solution Through Agreement With Tris Pharma (Monmouth Junction, NJ)

Oxford Finance Corporation Leads $30 Million Secured Loan Facility for Cadence Pharmaceuticals

NABP Grants First 'Approved e-Advertiser' Status to Pharmahelper.com, QC Supply, and Kerr Drug

Liquent Unveils the Results of its Regulatory Affairs Trends Survey

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Recordati H1 2010 net profit rises 2.5% Y/Y

Deals on track for Genzyme and BMP Sunstone

Data centre specialist IDA snapped up

Two thirds of pharmaceutical companies use outsourcing

North America and Copaxone drive Teva growth in Q2

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
Dr. Jeri Ann Boose to Lead Lancaster Laboratories Biologics Programs

Oxford Instruments to Showcase MQC Benchtop NMR Analyzer at 240th ACS...

GenomeQuest Appoints Anthony Flynn as CMO

STEMCELL Technologies applauds Nature Protocol article from Institut...

August 15 Entry Deadline for 2010 da Vinci® Awards Honoring...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
USAsafety.com: New Gas Cylinder Cabinets Offer Affordable Storage...

Grow Your Business with Health Food Exchange, a Global B2B Marketplace...

Portafab Modular Building Systems Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Amerivap Systems Uses New Facility to Expand its Focus on Web Based...

Global Health Care Leader Selects Model N Contract Authoring Solution

Scientific American
Self-Fulfilling Fakery: Feigning Mental Illness Is a Form of Self-Deception

Spread of Deadly Cryptococcal Disease in U.S. Northwest Linked to Global Warming

How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves

More Education Delays Dementia Signs--But Not Damage

Climate Change May Mean More Mexican Immigration

Xconomy Life Sciences
HemaQuest Raises $4M More, Boosting VC Round to $16M for Sickle Cell, Blood Disorders

BioScale, Mastering Acoustics for Molecular Detection, Gets Nod from Millennium Pharma

Washington Startups Pull In $104.3M in June; Healthcare and Energy/Utilities Sectors Top the List

Oclaro Buys Mintera, Gazelle Gets $12M, Genzyme Buyout Rumors Swirl, & More Boston-Area Deals News

Illumina Acquires Helixis for Up to $105M, To Get Small, Low-Cost Genetic Analysis Tool

Yahoo Biotech News
EU clears six types of GM maize for animal feed (AFP)

Genes Influence Your Response to Others' Drinking Habits (LiveScience.com)

Hospital denies suspected killer got new liver (Reuters)

Benefit confirmed in "bubble boy" treatment (Reuters)

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