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BioSpace
Regular Aspirin Use Linked With Hearing Loss In Men, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital And Vanderbilt University Study

HIV Drug That Protects a Fetus Should Be Avoided for One Year After Childbirth, University of Alabama at Birmingham Researchers Say

New Smoking Cessation Therapy Proves Promising, Duke University Medical Center Study

Germany's Merck KGaA to Buy Millipore Corporation in $7.2 Billion Deal

U.S. FDA Approves Shire plc's Drug for Gaucher Disease

BioSpace - Breaking News
OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Peer-reviewed Articles Further Define Clusterin and the Role of a Clusterin Inhibitor, OGX-011, for the Treatment of Cancer

Harbor BioSciences, Inc. to Present Results on Lead Drug Candidate Apoptone(R)

Merck KGaA and Millipore Corporation Announce Transaction - Video Interview with CEO

Eli Lilly and Company, Covance Inc. Strategic Alliance Proves Win-Win For Both Companies, Patients Companies Highlight Achievements After First Year of Strategic Alliance; Sign Three-Year Services Expansion

ChromaDex, Inc. Awarded GSA Federal Supply Service Contract to Provide Analytical Services to Federal Agencies

Biotech News - Business Wire
Neoprobe 4th Quarter and Year-End 2009 Earnings Conference Call Invitation

Cook Pharmica Names Veda Walcott Vice President of Quality

BioSante Pharmaceuticals Receives Two New Patents for Manufacture of Proteins, Including Antibodies

Life Technologies Unveils Single Molecule Sequencing Technology

GTC Provides Update on TG20 Monoclonal Antibody Targeting CD20

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Study Shows C1-Esterase Inhibitor Concentrate Rapidly Relieves Acute, Successive Attacks of Hereditary Angioedema at All Body Sites

febit's miRBase 14 Geniom-Biochip Now With 58 Additional New Sequences Available for Cancer Research

Shanghai ChemPartner's Animal Facility Awarded AAALAC Accreditation

Acuo Technologies Announces Another Significant Sales and Implementation Growth Year

Doctors and First Responders Rely on Oberthur Technologies in Times of Emergency

Biotechnology - Moreover
Merck KGaA to Buy Millipore for $7.2 Billion

Stifel Nicolaus Initiates Coverage on Alaska Air Group (ALK) with a Buy

PPD to create 250 new Athlone jobs

Spanish Natra swings to EUR 52.2m loss

Pangu BioPharma's naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases study awarded second grant

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Healogica to Close, Plans to Sell Trial Matchmaking Technology

Parexel Opens Third Early-Phase Unit in South Africa

Chiltern, Charles River Labs Partner on Early-phase Studies

Kendle Cutting Staff to Offset Drop in Sales

PPD Opens First Office in Philippines, Expands Operations in India

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Hythiam to Present at the Roth 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference

4medica Launches Integrated Health Record Platform

Synexus Recruits 87% Of Patients for Major Osteoporosis Study

Research and Markets: This Contract Research Organizations in Asia 2010 Report Provides a Comprehensive List of Clinical Research Organizations Throughout Asia

Over 2000 Patients Treated Globally with DFine's RF Kyphoplasty Procedure

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Cord Blood Registry Launches Industry-Leading Innovations for Newborn Stem Cell Collection

Researchers Find 'Micro Preemie' Infant Outcomes Improve Over Long-Term Due to Quality Improvement Collaborative

SUmiT Trial Results Clearly Demonstrate Therapeutic Effect of Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation

Stroke Conference Daily News Summary -- Friday

Non-Toxic Vitamin C Inhibits Formation of New Blood Vessel Growth to Tumors

Contract Pharma
Astellas Offers $3.5 Billion for OSI

AZ Exercises Merck non-PPI Buyout

Merck KgA To Acquire Millipore

iBio to License Green Vax Technology to G-Con

Regulus, GSK Enter HCV Development Pact

FDA Drugs- What's New
Non-Inferiority Clinical Trials

Submission of Documentation in Applications for Parametric Release of Human and Veterinary Drug Products Terminally Sterilized by Moist Heat Processes

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of Invirase (saquinavir) and possible association with abnormal heart rhythms

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing review of Avandia (rosiglitazone) and cardiovascular safety

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between July - September 2009

FDA News - Business Wire
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Makes Fish DNA ID Fast, Simple, Accurate for Routine Testing of Seafood to Verify Species and Labeling

TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology Collaborate to Develop New Food Testing Methods

TRADE NEWS: Agilent Announces Major Lab Software Suite, Fish DNA Analyzer, Food Collaboration, Transportable GC/MSD, and Single Quad LC/MS at Pittcon 2010

IgPro20, the First 20 Percent Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin, Demonstrates Efficacy against Infections While Maintaining Tolerability in Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency

New Data Show IgPro20 Delivers Highest Available Subcutaneous Ig Concentration with Tolerability Comparable to Current Treatments

FDA Press Releases
FDA Announces Meeting Information and Voting Membership of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee

FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak - February 26, 2010

U.S. Attorney News Release: Medical Device Manufacturer Guidant Charged in Failure to Report Defibrillator Safety

FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak - February 25, 2010

U.S. Attorney News Release: Medical Technician Sentenced to 30 Years

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Biologic Product Shortages

Cord Blood Licensure: A Workshop

Field Correction of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Expiration Dating

COBAS TaqScreen MPX Test

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Questions and Answers

FierceBiotech
Merck KgAA offers $7.2B for Millipore

CellCentric builds on a global epigenetics platform

Cell Therapeutics gets going concern warning

Astellas makes $3.5B hostile bid for OSI

FDA staffers balance risks, benefits of BMS' belatacept

FierceBiotech IT
Service aids in trial ops management

C-TASC teaches data prep for FDA filings

FDA advises on adaptive trials, simulations

Tech boosts enrollment at Parexel site

Oracle: analytics benefits to unfold in stages

FierceBiotech Research
Scorpion venom compounds used to kill pain

Mouse/human chimera will aid hepatitis research

The roller coaster ride of melanoma drug development

Pharma giants join forces behind Asian cancer research group

Pfizer's old Ann Arbor complex recruiting researchers

FiercePharma
California county sues GSK over Avandia

Maine's scrip-data law up for appeal

Avandia, Seroquel top adverse-event reports

Daiichi plots $560M generics push in Japan

Reform is likely a one-party proposition

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Ops job gains to offset exec losses

Tobacco may speed vax production

WuXi plant ok another notch for China

Genzyme paying big for GMP slips

FDA letter vetoes Lilly API test

FierceVaccines
Scientists easily create hybrid virus

Older women unlikely to benefit from HPV vax

Prevnar 13: Pfizer's next Lipitor

Decision to scrap HIV vax facility stirs controversy

DARPA providing $40M for tobacco vax project

GEN News Highlights
Life Technologies Introduces Nanocrystal-Based Single Molecule Sequencing Technology

Merck KGaA to Dole Out $7.2B for Millipore

Astellas Bids $3.5B on OSI for Cancer Focus

Shire's Gaucher Disease Therapy Gets FDA Green Light

Researchers Suggest New RNAi Method to Identify Genes Predictive of Paclitaxel Response

Health News - BizJournals.com
American Medical Assocation to use Ingenix system now in beta testing

GeoVax improves to $3.3 million loss

Centene wraps N.J. unit sale to Amerigroup

Mercy completes buy of Jewish Hospital

Celsion moving to second trials of liver cancer drug

Health News - CNBC
Walgreen tweaks health care unit

Farrell: Taking A Position

Stocks rise after AIG deal, Greece bailout hopes

'New' Merck has 40 drugs in mid-, late-stage tests

Ariad cancer treatment gets 'orphan drug' status

Health News - Fox Business
OSI, Millipore Takeover Bids Stoke Drug Stocks

Early-Market Movers: Biodel, Taser International

FDA Accepts Vivus Application For Obesity Drug

Astellas Launches Hostile $3.5 Bln OSI Pharma Bid

Bayer Cut To Neutral At Credit Suisse

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Drug Testing Company Houston Medical Testing Services, Inc. Offers Range of Services to Employers

State of Michigan Licenses Mediware Medication Management Products for Five Behavioral Health Hospitals

Theratechnologies annonce la publication des rltats de phase 3 dans le journal JAIDS

Theratechnologies Announces Publication of Second Phase 3 Results in JAIDS

S3 Investment Company Comments on New Redwood Capital Subsidiary Client and Its Potential in China's Cattle Industry

MassBio News
MassBio Thanks Millennium for Making Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Check out the NEW & IMPROVED W.B. Mason contract for MORE SAVINGS!

MassBio and American Cancer Society present Symposium on Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Policy makers, industry leaders gather to cement commitment to life sciences industry

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Announces 2010 Internship Challenge Program

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Quest Diagnostics Unveils Care360(TM) EHR

With Virtualized Synapse Portfolio Clarian Increases Efficiency, Decreases Cost

Biogen Idec/Elan's Tysabri Will Remain Decision Resources' Clinical Gold Standard Through 2018 for the Treatment of Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Midwestern States Receive Least Federal Funding for Disease Prevention

Children's Hospitals and Clinics Launch Direct Access Interpreter Phone Lines for Non-English Speaking Callers

National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bookshelf News

dbVar News and Announcements

Genome Reference Consortium News

HomoloGene News

Library-LinkOut Announcements

Nature Biotechnology
Industry gains on moneyback schemes

$2 million rice verdict against Bayer

Biorefineries' stimulus win

Purpose-built chromosome

FDA balks on MedImmune's cell-grown flu vaccine

New York Times- Biotechnology
Merck to Pay $7.2 Billion for Millipore

After a Shooting, Colleagues Try to Regain Footing

Staggered by a Shooting, a Small Biology Department Tries to Regain Its Footing

A Previous Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect

A Previous Shooting Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Sheldon Gilgore, Physician Who Led Drug Giants Pfizer and Searle, Dies at 77

A Doctor’s Crusade Against Cancer

For a Drugstore, ‘Nice’ Isn’t a Panacea

Deadly Germs Largely Ignored By Drug Firms

Few Treatments on the Way

OnBioVC
F-star Biotech, GmbH: Series A $10.8M

Flexion Therapeutics, Inc.: Series A $9M

Neomend, Inc.: Series D $30M

Elevation Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Series A $30M

Alnara Therapeutics, Inc.: Series B $35M

Outsourcing-Pharma
SAFC preparing for inevitable shift to cell culture vaccines

Informex companies hope for a brighter 2010

MDS' sites "perfectly dovetail" with Ricerca's capacity; VP

Trial sponsors and CROs must do more to recruit older people, says EU group

Intelligent packaging can cut cost of trials; Stora Enso

Pharma News - Business Wire
BIO Announces New Networking and Collaboration Forum at 2010 BIO International Convention

Utah Legislative Leaders Tell UTC Members Technology Will Help Utah Recover from Recession

OSI Pharmaceuticals Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal From Astellas Pharma

Asterand Announces the Launch of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Molecular Pathology Services

Canon U.S.A. to Showcase Document Scanners and Check Transport Solutions at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Clinical Research shows that Aspirin can help breast cancer patients

Bayer Introduces CONTOUR(R) USB - Innovative Plug and Play Technology That Puts People With Diabetes in the Driving Seat

Remedying Consumer Trust Pharma Execs Unite

French Ministry of Research approves NextPharma as a Contract Research and Development Organization Carrying out R&D Activities on behalf of French Companies

IPO Prospects High on the Agenda at BioTrinity

Pharma News - PR Newswire
CRF Health Reports Record Growth and Earnings

Surveys Reveal High Frequency of Prodromal Symptoms Prior to Acute Hereditary Angioedema Attacks

New Study By BioTrends Highlights Changes in the Management of Gout and Hyperuricemia Among Rheumatologists and Primary Care Physicians

Win a $10,000 Education Fund for Your Miracle Child

Mission Pharmacal Launches New Vitamin B6-Rich Prescription Prenatal Vitamin, CitraNatal(R) B-Calm

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Walgreen's merging wellness, pharmaceutical unites

Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Ahura Scientific is completed

Merck KGaA

U.S. Regulators Warn Eli Lilly for Lapses at API Facility

Understanding your staff is the first step in its retention

PR Leap - Biotech
SourceSolution Launches Client Portal Software, PlanIt, for CMOs/CROs and their Biotech and Pharma Clients

Vivante GMP Solutions Enters into License Agreements with Crucell

Ascent Scientific Licenses Novel Columbia University Technology for High-Resolution Optical Imaging of Synaptic Activity in the Brain

World First - Green Cell Technologies' Extraction Process reduces plant & micro-organisms to a stabilised molecular level

SourceSolution Announced Today the Launch of New Website Features Designed to Support Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Strategic Sourcing Decisions

PRWeb - Biotechnology
ClearTrial Launches New Service to Bring Speed and Accuracy in Clinical Trial Planning Within Reach of Smaller Biopharma Companies

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and OpenHelixTM Announce an Updated Free Tutorial Suite for VISTA: Tools for Comparative Genomics

New Study: Improved Immune System with Gene-Eden, a Natural Antiviral Supplement that Targets Chronic Viruses

Implementation of Certified EHRs Biggest Hurdle for CIOs in Meeting Meaningful Use

Raising Awareness of Rare Diseases, Anson Group Announces Sponsorship of Rare Disease Day

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Cashier Live Launches Web-Based Pharmacy Point of Sale

Global Nanobiotechnology Market to Reach $4.94 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

New AccuPRO-ID™ Microbial Identification Testing Service

Buy HGH Website Educates Consumers on the Pros and Cons of Human Growth Hormone Supplements

Insuring Cannabis Crop Loss From Coast to Coast

Scientific American
Could Mini Labs and Plant-Based Vaccines Stop the Next Pandemic

Early Humans Used Brain Power, Innovation and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet

Cross-discipline Effort Tracks Evolution of Human Uniqueness and Modern Behavior

Are Pesticides from Plants Dangerous to Humans

Wild Ride: Comet Sample May Help Constrain the Early Evolution of the Solar System

Xconomy Life Sciences
Microsoft HealthVault Makes Pitch to Hospitals, Tries to Crack Tough Nut of Health-IT Adoption

Light Sciences Oncology Sits Tight, Awaits Key Cancer Trial Results This Summer

FDA Refuses to Accept Adventrx Pharma's New Drug Application

Under the Radar Deals: 10 Northwest Financings You Might Not Have Heard Of

Intrinsic Therapeutics Grabs $18M

Yahoo Biotech News
Pharmaceuticals Merck to buy Millipore for $7.2 bln (AFP)

Merck KGaA to acquire Millipore for 7.2 billion dollars (AFP)

Genes Behind Tooth Development Discovered (HealthDay)

Heart Stem Cells Move Closer to Human Treatments (HealthDay)

Genetic Mutation Linked to Prostate Cancer in Blacks (HealthDay)