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BioSpace
Protein Complex Helps Cancer Cells Fight Platinum-Based Drugs By Fixing DNA Cross-Links, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Zhejiang University Pharmaceutical Study

Charles River Laboratories (Massachusetts) and WuXi PharmaTech Co., Ltd. $1.6 Billion Deal Ended After Opposition

Australian Watchdog Clears Novartis Corporation Bid For Alcon, Inc.

Knee, Hip Replacements May Aid Weight Loss: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Study

Fluorescent Biosensor to Aid in Drug Development, Carnegie Mellon University Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Showcases StatisPro(TM)

Abaxis, Inc. Reports Record Revenues for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2011

Amgen's Second Quarter 2010 Adjusted Earnings Per Share Increased 7 Percent to $1.38

BioSpecifics Technologies Corporation to Host Conference Call to Report Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results on August 6, 2010

Biodel Inc. to Report Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results on August 5, 2010

Biotech News - Business Wire
Company Profile for IMIX Americas, Inc.

ZIOPHARM Reports Second Quarter Financial Results and Updates Clinical Programs

ZOLL Medical Corporation to Speak at the Wedbush Securities Life Sciences Best Ideas MAC Conference

Geron to Proceed with First Human Clinical Trial of Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapy

Wright Medical Group, Inc. Announces Launch of the EVOLUTION Medial-Pivot Knee System

Biotech News - PR Newswire
NeurogesX to Hold Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2010 Results

Adoption of In Silico Tools in Drug Discovery Accelerates Time to Market and Confers Cost Advantages, Notes Frost & Sullivan

Water Street Healthcare Partners Announces New Investment in Medical Specialties Distributors, LLC

BioSpecifics Technologies Corp. to Host Conference Call to Report Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results on August 6, 2010

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010

Biotechnology - Moreover
Educators in Triangle land Biotech Center grants

Look for Shares of iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index to Rebound after Yesterday's 0.31% Sell Off (IBB)

Biologics set to dominate but will Canada participate

SAGE demands withdrawal of biotech Bill

Fast Locator 2010-2011: Catalent Pharma Solutions

Burrill Report
Painless Protection

One Size Does Not Fit All

Game on

Looking East

Friends for Life

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
QPS completes acquisition of Xendo

Bostwick in partnership with American International Biotechnology

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

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Medtronic Launches Novel Clinical Trial Evaluating Spinal Cord Stimulation Therapy for Heart Failure

Ortho Kinematics Launches Multi-Site Clinical Study of KineGraph VMA

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

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Study Results Show That Oral Contraceptives/Hormone Replacement Therapy May Protect Against Brain Aneurysms

NASA Talk is High Tech Prescription for Contact Lenses

Researchers Find New Translocation; Weak Spots in DNA Cause Genetic Disease

Anthera Initiates Expanded and Extended PEARL-SC Phase 2b Clinical Study in Lupus With A-623 - A Subcutaneous Dual Inhibitor of Membrane and Soluble B-Cell Activating Factor (BAFF or BLyS)

New York State Approves Quest Diagnostics' Fragile X Syndrome Test

Contract Pharma
Charles River, WuXi Terminate Acquisition Agreement

Financial Report: Merck 2Q

PPD Expands North America Lab Services

Harmony Establishes Innovation Department

Financial Report: Covance 2Q

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of Evamist (estradiol transdermal spray) and unintended exposure of children and pets to topical estrogen

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Eosinophilic pneumonia associated with the use of Cubicin (daptomycin)

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)

FDA News - Business Wire
ZOLL Propaq MD Monitor/Defibrillator Granted 510(k) Clearance by U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Formatech to Donate Services to Formulate and Fill Femta Pharmaceuticals FM101 Monoclonal Antibody under Its Fillanthropy Program

ArQule to Report Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results on August 4, 2010

NARSAD Honors Five Young Investigator Grantees for their Outstanding Contributions to Mental Health Research

Medical Acoustics Named One of Top 50 Companies to Watch

FDA Press Releases
Former CEO of Seafood Importing Corporation Sentenced to Federal Prison for Importing Falsely Labeled Fish

FDA Approves Drug for Chronic Drooling in Children

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 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
Sanofi looks beyond blockbusters

Orexigen weight-loss drug shows positive results in study

Charles River, WuXi call off $1.6B deal

Anacor gets $15M from GSK

Hospira plans big study for new Epogen biosimilar

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
Senate tacks 'pay-for-delay' ban onto spending bill

Why does Sanofi's CEO consider 'patent' a dirty word

Pfizer takes on security screenings for air cargo

FDA hears critics on risk-management programs

NEJM analyzes data on Provenge

FiercePharma Manufacturing
FDA joins Tox21 collaboration

Oracle debuts pedigree product

Warning letter delineates brandholder/CMO roles

Merck supply issues delay hep B vax in Canada

FDA softens tone when addressing unapproved drugs

FierceVaccines
Biovest wins orphan drug status for cancer vax

Merck, Sanofi outline plans for new animal health JV

NEJM lays out questions--and facts--about Provenge

Vaccination gaps contribute to pertussis outbreak

Vax nanopatch offers stick-on alternative to a needle

Health News - BizJournals.com
Two sentenced for HIV infusion fraud

Schering-Plough charges eat into Merck profit

Five plead guilty in massive Medicare fraud

Health Market Science gets $6M in venture capital

Coventry Health Care earnings sink on lawsuit charge

Health News - CNBC
Coventry 2Q profit tumbles on litigation charge

Stock futures fall ahead of GDP report

Merck's 2Q net drops on higher costs, charges

BioScrip 2Q profit slides on buyout and taxes

Sanofi CEO targeting everything but blockbusters

Health News - Fox Business
Geron Rallies On FDA Move; Indices Slip

Geron Rallies As FDA Green Lights Stem Cell Study

Merck 2Q Profit Drops 52% On Charges; Sales Rise

Charles River Ends Plan To Buy WuXi Pharma Tech

Humana Upgraded To Market Perform At BMO

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Sunwin International Reports Financial Results for the Fiscal 2010 Year Ended April 30, 2010

Lpath Receives $3 Million Grant From the National Eye Institute

The Female Health Company Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call for August 6, 2010

Functional Technologies Reports Fiscal Q3 2010 Results

Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. Signs Agreement for Distribution and Sale of Uracyst(R) in Spain

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
GHX to Present Strategies to Optimize Procurement, Especially of Physician Preference Items, at Annual AHRMM Conference

Health Secretary Urges All Pennsylvanians to Get Fully Immunized

RiskCommunities Secures Interview with SVB Analytics

Advanced Data Systems Partners with 1450 and Dr. Ravi Venkataraman to Offer a Free EHR Webinar for Speech Recognition

HealthSouth Announces Plans to Build New Hospital in Texas

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
Europe Clears Import of New Biotech Corn Varieties

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Sanofi Is Expected to Bid $70 a Share for Genzyme

Sanofi Said to Plan a Bid of $70 for Genzyme

Hope Against Hepatitis C

Novartis Plans Giveaway of New Children’s Medicine

Washington State Moves to Tighten Controls on Pain Killers

OnBioVC
Curexo Technology Corp.: Series C $13.2M

Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.: Series A $1.5M

Green Biologics, Ltd.: Series B $6.1M

Zymeworks, Inc.: Series B $3.2M

Molecular Detection, Inc.: Series C $1.4M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Demand for discovery services recovering, says Domainex

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

Pharma News - Business Wire
Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Laboratories and Merck to Speak at the 9th Polymorphism & Crystallization Scientific Forum

Research and Markets: The Australian Pharmaceutical Market Outlook to 2015: Policy Environment, Market Analysis, Key Trends, Growth Opportunities and Competitive Landscape

Microsulis Launches Most Powerful Needle for Microwave Tissue Ablation at ECIO

Pathwork Diagnostics Partners with Leading Pharmaceutical Company to Discover Molecular Diagnostics for Cancer

McKesson Reports Fiscal 2011 First-Quarter Results

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
SORIN GROUP Delivers Solid Results for the First Half Of 2010 And Improves the Guidance for the Full Year

Doctors.net.uk strengthens pharmaceutical team; new hires support strong business growth

Chiltern Announces Financials for the Year Ended 31 March 2010

Pharmacy OneSource Announces Free Webinar on Hospital-Acquired Infections

Atopic Dermatitis Knowledge Centre is launched on EPG website for doctors

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Sanofi Pasteur Begins Shipping Influenza Vaccine in U.S. for 2010-2011 Season

GlaxoSmithKline Begins Distribution of Flu Vaccine to U.S. Customers for 2010-2011 Flu Season

Warner Chilcott Announces Proposed Leveraged Recapitalization Including Special Cash Dividend to Shareholders and Updates Full-Year 2010 Financial Guidance

MultiCell Technologies Launches New Web Site

Arcadia Resources Announces Webcast of its Fiscal 2011 First Quarter Conference Call

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Takeda Announces the Appointment of Executive Vice President,International Operations (Americas/Europe) and Senior Vice Presiden

French Senate report in swine-flu pandemic unanimously adopted

Adam Smith Conferences 3rd International Annual Ukrainian Pharmaceutical Forum 19th - 20th October 2010, InterContinental Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine

Thermo Fisher Scientific Webinar Prepares ICP Users for New US Pharmacopeia Chapters Proposal

Indian Ayurvedics Herbals,Online Prescription Drugs India,Online indian Cosmetics Store

PR Leap - Biotech
Executive Impact Group Provides Startup Solutions to VC funded $40M Calithera Biosciences

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

PRWeb - Biotechnology
National Patient Antibody Registry, LLC Announces On-line Demo

Adventus Group Establishes Joint Venture for European Expansion with...

Quantum Resonance Calibration Standards Replacing Old Fashioned Liquid...

Scienceware® Clear View Glove Boxes Designed for Diverse Market

LS9, Inc. Makes Major Scientific Breakthrough in Converting Sugar to...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
E-BEAM Facilities Quality Management Systems ISO Certified Including...

Global Health Progress Highlights ViiV Healthcare's Announcement of...

Global Health Progress Epitomizes Clinton, Gates' Call for "Efficiency...

Christiane Wells, MSW, publishes second book: Magical Shrinking:...

Senator Dan Inouye and Governor Ed Rendell to be Recognized at the...

Scientific American
Genes from Ebola Virus Family Found in Human Genome

Dopamine Determines Impulsive Behavior

Safety Concerns Have Delayed Approval of First U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Decades

Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950

Follow Your Nose: Sniff Controller Gives the Severely Disabled a New Way to Communicate and Move

Xconomy Life Sciences
Charles River Ends $1.6B WuXi Buyout

Connect Adopts New Measures to Boost the Innovation Economy

Gates Foundation's Tachi Yamada: Biotechies and VCs are Missing Out on Global Health

LS9 Reveals Key Biofuel Genes, Onyx Drug Passes Big Trial, Solazyme Seeks First-Mover Edge, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News

FDA Gives Nod to Momenta's Anti-Clotting Generic, Ingenix Acquires Picis, Millennium Harnesses BioScale's Protein-Measuring Technology, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

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)