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b3c newswire
Boehringer Ingelheim Prolongates Drug Discovery Collaboration with Priaxon

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Refine Technology Announce Cooperation

Biotage Releases New Catalog and Technical Guide for Sample Preparation and Evaporation

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and G-Con Manufacturing Announce Global Collaboration

JSR Expands its Biomedical Business by Investing in BIA Separations' Unique Purification Technology

BioSpace
Overweight Linked to Acne in Teen Girls, Study

Pfizer Inc. Starting to Sell Pain Drug With Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Technology

Advanced Cell Technology: Stem Cell Retinal Implants Safe

Keeping Brain Sharp May Ward Off Alzheimer's Protein, University of California, Berkeley (CAL) Study

Cleveland Biolabs Inc. Reorganizes Management, CEO to Step Down

BioSpace - Breaking News
Roche Release: HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Risk Patients Set to Increase

Van Andel Institute Study Provides New Details of Fundamental Cellular Process

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd: Targeting Cancer Stem Cells

Appistry, Inc. Establishes Genomic Research Collaboration with University of Missouri

Santhera Pharmaceuticals AG and Ipsen Renegotiate Fipamezole Licensing Agreement

Biotech News - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Handbook of Biophotonics: Vol. 2: Photonics for Health Care

Vaxiion Granted Key Patent Related to Minicell-based Therapeutics

Samenvatting: Avinger voert twee levende ocelot casussen uit op de LINC conferentie in Leipzig, Duitsland

La société Avinger est fière dannoncer la présentation en direct de deux études de cas Ocelot, à loccasion de la conférence LINC à Leipzig, en Allemagne

Resumen: Avinger realizará dos casos Ocelot en directo en el Congreso LINC en Leipzig (Alemania)

Biotech News - PR Newswire
New Software from SRI Speeds Development of Genome-Scale Models for Drug and Fuel Research

Sanovas CEO Larry Gerrans Featured at BayBio's 'Fundraising in Troubled Times'

Precision Therapeutics Enhances Their Straightforward Approach to Personalizing Cancer Care

Elanco Animal Health Announces Lilly's Agreement to Acquire ChemGen Corp.

Chinese Scientists Zhen-Yi Wang and Zhu Chen Awarded 7th Annual Szent-Gyorgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research

Biotechnology - Moreover
NovaBay to initiate Phase IIb adenoviral conjunctivitis study

BioLineRx Surges after Hep C License Agreement

BBSRC unveils new doctoral training centres

Life sciences PhD funding boost

Analysts project Y/Y drop in Swiss Lonza's 2011 net profit

Burrill Report
US Obesity Rates Hold Steady

Sanofi Scientist Pleads Guilty to Thefts

Pfizer, Medivation End Development of Alzheimer's Drug

Proteus Debuts Smart Pill in the United Kingdom

Mobile Health App Revenue Perks Up

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Sanofi's $20 billion Genzyme buy could fuel a big pharma-biotechnology acquisition trend

New Quintiles initiative saves investigative sites the time, and cost, of patient recruitment advertising

Technology companies adapt interactive video concepts for clinical trial informed consent

CRI buys Lifetree, combining investigative sites on both coasts and across all trial phases

New $1b NIH center will tackle early-stage drug development to ease industry risk of failure

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Clinical Financial Services (CFS) Expands Internationally with Office in Edinburgh, Scotland

First Patient Enrolled in Medtronic-Supported Head-to-Head Clinical Trial Comparing Cryoballoon Ablation to RF Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Benefit from a New Premier Agreement for Blunt Cannula Access Devices

Furiex Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Earnings Release and Conference Call

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
UH Case Medical Center the First in Region to Enroll Patients in Worldwide Study

Cohera Medical Receives IDE Approval to Begin Pivotal Clinical Trial for TissuGlu® Surgical Adhesive in the U.S.

Obesity Adds Obstacles to Prostate Cancer Battle

Spotting Dyslexia Before a Child Starts School

First Patient Treated in PLC Systems' RenalGuard® U.S. Pivotal Trial

CNN Top Stories
Rick Warren and church tackle obesity

5 things from debate

Oral Roberts' son faces DUI charge

Google+ swerves, allows nicknames

Opinion: Romney does some damage

Contract Pharma
Sartorius, Refine Technology in Cell Retention Pact

Genzyme Gains FDA Approval For Framingham Plant

ICON Adds Experts to Global Scientific Council

Novo Nordisk Establishes Seattle Diabetes R&D Center

Financial Report: Johnson & Johnson

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: New risk factor for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) associated with Tysabri (natalizumab)

Medication Guides

FDA Drug Safety Communication: New Boxed Warning and Contraindication for Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Update: Preliminary findings from ongoing investigations of CardioGen-82

FDA Statement on recently terminated clinical trial with Doribax (doripenem)

FDA News - Business Wire
EpiCept Corporation Confirms Engagement of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey to Include Evaluation of Potential Sale Transactions

Medtronic Completes Enrollment of Extreme Risk Patient Group in CoreValve® U.S. Pivotal Trial

Suspension Orthopaedics Gets FDA Clearance for Surgical System

Spectranetics Strengthens Peripheral Vascular Portfolio with a Partnership to Distribute the TAPAS Catheter

First Databank to Participate in Effort to Identify New York State Pharmacy Drug Acquisition Costs

FDA Press Releases
FDA permits marketing of first test for risk of rare brain infection in some people treated with Tysabri

FDA approves Voraxaze to treat patients with toxic methotrexate levels

FDA to protect important class of antimicrobial drugs for treating human illness

FDA: Chicago-area sandwich manufacturer agrees to stop production

FDA expands use of HIV drug Isentress to children and adolescents

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Cord Blood Banking Information for Consumers

Cord Blood Banking – Information for Consumers

Cord Blood Banking ââ¬â Information for Consumers

Influenza Virus Vaccine for the 2011 - 2012 Season

Fluzone, Fluzone High-Dose and Fluzone Intradermal

FierceBiotech
Ipsen hands back Parkinson's drug rights to Santhera

Millennium scores FDA OK on new Velcade administration

Experts jab over drug patent reform and the best approach to innovation

Scientists believe "magic" mushrooms could effectively treat depression

Novo crafts fast-track R&D model for new diabetes drug unit

FierceBiotech IT
Oracle, Parexel among leaders in CTMS market poised to hit $1.3B

Oracle injects genomics capability into analytics platform

Consumers to pharma: Let's be Facebook friends (or not)

FDA brings new workflow software into its labs

Big Pharma testing waters with mobile tech

FierceBiotech Research
Fight colon cancer with veggies, plus 2 other discoveries

Colorado researchers remove leukemia's shield, making it easier to kill

Targeting NKp46 boosts immune response, Innate Pharma believes

U.K. team finds gene link for esophageal cancer

Genetic analysis yields hypertension clue

FiercePharma
Did Stiefel undervalue employee shares before GSK buyout

Watson expands Asian footprint with $392M generics buy

Rottapharm founder's stake sale hits a snag

Publicist quits over Deen's tie-up with Novo

Genzyme wins key FDA approval for new plant

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Genzyme plant approval marks GMP comeback

Pakistan suspects heart drug contamination in patient deaths, seals plant

GSK's CEO Witty wants U.K. focus on manufacturing

Law firm brings logistics savvy to Miami

Pfizer revels in massive Prevnar vax job

FierceVaccines
Confident Inovio chief pushes ahead on universal flu vaccine

Paragon nabs $15M filovirus vax contract from DoD

Scientists balk as U.S. gov't pushes limits to bird flu discourse

Breast cancer vaccine set for large-scale testing

Flu season gets off to a sluggish start

Health News - BizJournals.com
MedQuist becomes M*Modal

Roswell Park trial seeks to fight, prevent cancer

U of L gets $100,000 grant for blindness research

Meta House leader to retire

Lakeland Regional operating income swells, but investment losses cut into bottom line

Health News - CNBC
Global Markets Update: Day of 'Decent' Earnings Reports

Patent Pain Mostly Over for Big Pharma

Quest Diagnostics 4Q profit climbs 14 percent

Contaminated medicines kill at least 27 in Pakistan

Watson 2011 earnings jump on generic drug launches

Health News - Fox Business
Employers Grateful for Proposed Tax Breaks, But Still Scared

Employers Grateful for Proposed Tax Breaks, Still Scared

Insmed Shares Drop as FDA Halts Study After Rat Test Results

Week Ahead: A Flood Of 2Q Earnings

Pfizer Drug Raises Heart Attack Risk: Study

Inside Industry - Gen
Growth of Corporate Ventures Reflected in Rising VC Numbers

Nutritional Therapeutics, Inc. (US) and Nutri-Link Ltd. (UK) Announce Strategic Alliance for the Introduction of a New Therapy for European Healthcare Practitioners

Market Ready Rx Expands Presence with New Executive Search Business

Aphios Pockets $2.4M SBIR Grant for Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Candidate

MDxHealth Awarded CLIA Certification for Irvine Laboratory

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Arch Biopartners Appoints Claude Allary as Special Advisor

American Health Receives URAC Health Utilization Management, Case Management and Disease Management Accreditation

World-leading Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Investigators Join enGene's Newly Established Clinical Advisory Board

Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation Launches 5-Year Breakthrough Goal

Hedge Fund Veteran Andrew S. Schneider Named CEO of Rotoblock Corp. (RTBC.OB)

MassBio News
MassBio Introduces the Leading Edge Award

MassBio Policy Update - SBIR Reauthorization

451 Marketing & Freeman to Create Massachusetts Pavilion at 2012 BIO International Convention

Local students explore Biotech Futures

A Note from the President: Looking Forward to a Busy 2012 at MassBio

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Internet Retailer ALM Global Sales Introduces FeelGreatVitaminsAndSupplements.com

Annual Meeting of The American College of Preventive Medicine Spotlights Healthy Families and Healthy Communities

Evergreen Eye Center Introduces Groundbreaking Leica M22 Surgical Microscope for Cataract Surgery to the US

Georgetown University Medical Center Licenses "Theranostic" for Development

What Will Health Care Look Like in 2025 Futurists Predict Everything from Health Avatars and Shortages of Primary Care Physicians to Growing Disparities in Access and Quality Based on Income and Where People Live

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

PubMed Health Featured Reviews

SRA News

Nature Biotechnology
Approval on a knife edge

Bringing business risk into sharp focus

The NIH's role in accelerating translational sciences

Building stem-cell genomics in California and beyond

Foundation Medicine

New York Times- Biotechnology
Amgen and Watson to Work Together on Generic Drugs

A Genome Deluge

Drew Endy: Better Computing for the Things We Care About Most

DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data

China’s New Economic Plan Focuses on Raising Standards of Living

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Dutasteride Is Seen to Curtail Cancer Left in Prostate

When the Drug Maker Pays the Doctor

Hard Truths About Disclosure

Who Else Is Paying Your Doctor

F.D.A. Delays Approval of New Diabetes Drug

OnBioVC
Intuity Medical, Inc.: Series D $12M

Cleveland Heartlab, Inc.: Series B $18.4M

Monteris Medical, Inc.: Series C $8.6M

Sorbent Therapeutics, Inc.: Series B

OnBioVC: End Piracy, Not Liberty

Outsourcing-Pharma
Parexel discusses transdermal drug delivery techs

Sponsors and CROs differ on perception of service quality, says the Avoca Group

Recipharm CEO talks CMO sector recovery and Asian plans

Covance adding mass spec for biosimilars

Embedded service providers are future of the industry, says RPS

Pharma News - Business Wire
SCRA Technology Ventures SC Launch Companies to Partner

SMHS Launches New Website Design for its Low Cost Prescription Program

Covidien publica información clínica sobre escisión de placas para el tratamiento de lesiones calcificadas

Covidien publie des données cliniques sur les systèmes d'excision de plaque pour le traitement des lésions calcifiées

Fitch: Watson's Acquisition of Ascent Pharmahealth in Line with Rating Rationale

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
AstraZeneca Donates $3.8 million in Medicines for U.S. Free Clinics

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Asks Kids to "Make the Play" for a Healthier Michigan

China Health Resource Signs Two New Agreements for the Sale of Gastrodia Valued At $1.07 Million USD

ICON Strengthens Global Scientific Council with the Appointments of Professor Brendan Buckley and Dr. Nicholas Alp

Global Diabetes Devices Market 2010-2014

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Validation & Compliance Institute Provides Affordable Online FDA Training

Thomson CompuMark Reduces Drug Approval Delays by Identifying Conflicting Trademarks in International Markets

Connexit Launch Aims to Reshape Business of Long-Term Care

Top OTC Secrets From Your Pharmacist

Mylan to Host Investor Day on Feb. 21, 2012, in New York City

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
pharmaCline to be Featured on 21st Century Health Television January 25, 2012

Ending the doctor gravy train

1st Seminar for Clinical Pharmacology

Deals and Moves: Jan. 23

Pharmacyclics Shares Climbing Higher, Up 2.8%

PR Leap - Biotech
Abcam Biochemicals is launched; the new name for Ascent Scientific products

AL-TAR Services, Inc. Adds Thermo-Scientific Product Line to its Online Lab Equipment Store

Ascent Scientific Launch Novel Dynamin Inhibitor Dyngo-4a™ with Children's Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle

AL-TAR Services, Inc. Names Robert Nugent Director of Business Development

Ascent Scientific licenses novel clathrin inhibitors from Freie Universität Berlin, University of Newcastle and Children's Medical Research Institute

PRWeb - Biotechnology
Nebraska Doctor Claims Traditional View of Symptoms and Diagnosis is...

Bowl Games Played on Advanced Matrix® Turf and Convertible Fields...

American Hydroponics Appoints Scott Kornberg as Chief Technology...

GS1 EPCglobal Software Certification Mark Awarded to FastPoint...

Kitware Receives Phase II Funding for the Development of a...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
The Hire an Esquire - Digital Legal Partnership Cuts Legal Costs by...

Clinical Trials GPS Shares 2011 Q4 Findings; Almost 40% of Trials...

New Concern Over Gum Disease Link to Pneumonia, Warns Eludril and...

Big Mountain Drugs Offers Xalatan Coupon in Honor of Glaucoma...

Superbones West Podiatry Conference to Be First Podiatric Conference...

Scientific American
Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men Do

The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear

Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men

Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein

Study Fails to Confirm Existence of Arsenic-Based Life

Sports - ESPN Basketball
King: Slow down and enjoy the surprises

Ex-Oklahoma St. G Gulley enrolls at Arkansas

Murray State's Aska cleared after 6 games out

Robinson carries No. 5 Kansas past Texas A&M

Cuse runs past Cincy to rebound from 1st loss

Sports News - ESPN
Past, present Penn St. players pay respects

Griffey's son Trey will play receiver at Arizona

Texas regents mull changes to Brown's deal

Son: JoePa was upbeat at end, never bitter

Source: Big East football to add Navy in 2015

Xconomy Life Sciences
Millennium Wins FDA OK for New Velcade, Looks to Fend Off Onyx

Vertex Vows to Fight On With Alios Drugs in High-Stakes Hepatitis C Race

Millennium Wins FDA OK for New Velcade, Looks to Fend Off Onyx

Novo Nordisk Adds Diabetes Research to Seattle Immunology Team

San Diego Tech Roundup: Venture Capital, Tealium, Qualcomm, & More

Yahoo Biotech News
Thoroughbred Racehorses Get Speed from Just a Few Ancestors (LiveScience.com)

Small Stem Cell Study Claims Early Success in Treating Eye Disease (HealthDay)

New Genetic Clues to Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK (AP)

Man gets life for millionaire's murder in fraud scheme (Reuters)