Daily news email for May 10, 2012 | Click here for updated news

SourceSolution News
We want to hear from you! Click here let us know how we can make this news email better.

Manage projects more efficiently. Try PlanIt free for 15 days.

Create quality questionnaires and RFPs more quickly, weight responses and manage suppliers.

Discounted advertising rates on www.sourcesolution.com for all BIOCOM members starting at $100/month

Use PlanIt as your next deal room! Click here to learn more.

b3c newswire
Definiens Expands Functionality of Its Leading Solution for Quantitative Digital Pathology with ...

Antisense Pharma Internationalizes Management Board

Mucosis Announces Positive Proof-Of-Concept Data for Mimopath® Platform In Humans

Nuevolution Announces Receipt of Milestone Payment from Boehringer Ingelheim

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and c-LEcta Sign Sales Agreement

BioSpace
Having a "Purpose in Life" May Help Shield You From Dementia, Rush University Medical Center Study

Sunscreen Ingredient May Increase Skin Cancer Risk, Study

Grant & Eisenhofer Represents Lead Whistleblower in Historic $1.6 Billion Settlement With Abbott Laboratories Over Off-Label Marketing of Antiepileptic Medication Depakote

Santen Pharmaceutical Nabs Japanese Co-Promotion Rights to Bayer HealthCare and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s Eylea

Novartis AG: Pasireotide Works Well in Phase III Acromegaly Trial

BioSpace - Breaking News
Teijin Pharma's Febuxostat (FEBURIC) Launches in Taiwan - Novel Drug for Treatment of Hyperuricemia With Gout

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation's LNP Technology Enables Alnylam Pharmaceuticals's ALN-TTR01 Clinical Data

Genetic Technologies Limited Executes Settlement and License Agreement With GeneSeek Inc.

Mucosis B.V. Announces Positive Proof-Of-Concept Data for Mimopath Platform in Humans

Ranbaxy Laboratories Q1 Jumps 300%, What are Analysts Saying

Biotech News - Business Wire
Samenvatting: Smithers Rapra en EuropaBio publiceren agenda voor 5e Europese Forum voor Industriële Biotechnologie

Mothers of America Vote for Aerogen on Capitol Hill

La bioéconomie se mondialise Smithers Rapra et EuropaBio communiquent lagenda du 5ème Forum européen de la biotechnologie industrielle

Resumen: La bioeconomía se internacionaliza - Smithers Rapra y EuropaBio anuncian agenda para el 5º Foro europeo para la biotecnología industrial

Axonia Medical Completes $2 Million Seed Financing

Biotech News - PR Newswire
McCabe, Duval Wins Diagnostic Marketing Association Award

ThromboGenics NV - Business Update

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals to Present at The 11th Annual JMP Securities Research Conference

Regeneron Announces Presentation at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Healthcare Conference

EPA Approves a Dry Formulation of Marrone Bio Innovations' Grandevo Biopesticide

Biotechnology - Moreover
Analysis of Relative Performance in the Biotechnology Industry for Shares of Incyte (INCY, ONXX, ALKS, SPPI, MITI)

Top 5 Companies in the Biotechnology Industry with the Best Relative Performance (CPHD, IMGN, HGSI, SGEN, RIGL)

NIH Translational Center Should Raise All Boats, BIO Says

Immunogen, inc. reports second quarter fiscal year 2012 financial results and provides quarterly update

Biotechnology to be 21st-century industry: Life Tech CEO

Burrill Report
VCs See Sharp Drop in Biotech Investment

Investor Groups to Help Laid-Off Merck KGaA Employees Form Spin-offs

NIH Seeks to Find Uses for Shelved Compounds

Piecing Together the Proteome

Friction for Pharma Abroad, But Progress Too

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
Study Shows Longer Arrhythmia Detection Window Reduces Shocks for Medtronic Implantable Defibrillator Patients

Arcadia Solutions to Present at the Montana HIMSS Chapter Meeting

First Automated Insulin Dosage Titration System Demonstrates Positive Results in Clinical Study, Says Hygieia, Inc.

ImmunoCellular Provides an Update on Enrollment for the Company's Phase II Clinical Trial

Clinical Results by Twelve Electrophysiologists at Eight Independent U.S. Sites Replicate the Acute Results of the CONFIRM Trial

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Cedars-Sinai Implants 1st SynCardia Total Artificial Heart to Bridge Mother of Three to Second Heart Transplant

S-ICD® System von Cameron Health erfüllt primäre Sicherheits- und Wirksamkeitsendpunkte der klinischen IDE-Studie

Le système S-ICD® de Cameron Health atteint les points finaux primaires de sécurité et d'efficacité dans une étude clinique IDE (exemption des dispositifs de recherche)

Boston Scientific Announces Schedule For EuroPCR 2012

Cameron Health's S-ICD® System Meets Primary Safety and Efficacy Endpoints in IDE Clinical Study

CNN Top Stories
In-law: Fugitive thinks girls are his

Mom: I'm jealous of my baby

Kidnap suspect on 'Most Wanted' list

Russia foils 2014 Olympic terror plot

2012 Olympic flame lit

Contract Pharma
Cytovance Biologics Names LeBlanc to Board

Tris Pharma Adds To Management Team

GE Healthcare Completes Xcellerex Acquisition

Novozymes Begins Commercial Supply From China Facility

NSF-DBA, Semler Research Center In India Pact

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Safety review update of cancer drug Revlimid (lenalidomide) and risk of developing new types of malignancies

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Información actualizada sobre la interacción entre el medicamento Victrelis (boceprevir) y ciertos medicamentos reforzados inhibidores de la proteasa del VIH

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Información actualizada sobre la interacción entre el medicamento Victrelis (boceprevir) y ciertos medicamentos reforzados inhibidores de la proteasa del VIH

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva advertencia y contraindicación sobre medicamentos para la presión arterial que contienen aliskiren

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva advertencia y contraindicación sobre medicamentos para la presión arterial que contienen aliskiren

FDA News - Business Wire
Samenvatting: FDA geeft goedkeuring aan volgende generatie BIOTRONIK ICD's en CRT-D's

FDA erteilt Zulassung für ICDs und CRT-Ds der nächsten Generation von BIOTRONIK

FDA Approves BIOTRONIK Next Generation ICDs and CRT-Ds

PharPoint Research is Recipient of CED's North Carolina Companies to Watch Award

SORIN GROUP ANNUNCIA LAPPROVAZIONE DELLA FDA ED IL LANCIO COMMERCIALE DELLA GAMMA COMPLETA DI ELETTROCATETERI PER DISPOSITIVI CARDIACI IMPIANTABILI

FDA Press Releases
FDA issues alert on potential dangers of unproven treatment for multiple sclerosis

FDA proposal aims to help reduce unnecessary radiation exposure for children

FDA issues final rule on sterility testing of biological products

FDA permits marketing of a new device for abdominal surgery

FDA approves new orphan drug to treat a form of Gaucher disease

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Moon Marine USA Corporation voluntarily recalls frozen raw yellowfin tuna product Nakaochi Scrape associated with a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly infections

Multi-Center Fellowship in Regenerative Medicine

FDA Webinar on Safety of the Blood Supply

WinRho SDF Liquid

Flebogamma DIF 5%

FierceBiotech
Biotech startup Egalet lassos $14.3M B round, new CEO

Subpar clinical trials probed in India's review of regulation

Biotech gambler Blech loses big in securities scam

UPDATED: FDA advisers sign off on Pfizer's arthritis pill

Third Rock's Levin calls for teamwork in personalized medicine

FierceBiotech IT
Crowdsourcing tool tapped to spot malaria

Investors pour $50.8M into genomics standout Oxford Nanopore

Software provider to Merck taps IBM cloud to fight fake drugs

Startup tries Apple-like strategy in genomics field

A case for 'open source' clinical trial data (locked behind a pay wall)

FierceBiotech Research
Researchers find key to premature aging syndrome

Honeybee substance freezes prostate cancer growth (Hint, it's not honey)

Controversial bird flu study details revealed

Stem cells grown from skin treat muscular dystrophy in mice

University of Miami gains $10M to expand stem cell R&D

FiercePharma
J&J opens up Doxil rationing on 'limited' new supply

Glaxo can nail HGS buy with slightly bigger bid, analysts say

Roche's Tarceva wins NICE nod for first-line use

Indian panel accuses Big Pharma of colluding with regulators

With generics horde advancing, Pfizer gives up Lipitor push

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Ranbaxy to make drugs in Malaysia, Nigeria

FDA critical of Genentech's Avastin production

12-year-old consent decree lifted from Abbott

Pfizer may announce $129M expansion in Belgium

Patheon exiting most manufacturing at U.K. plant

FierceVaccines
MMR and autism: Italy's courts get involved

Pneumococcal vax cuts deaths, but cases tripled

First 'cross-kingdom' vax effective in PhI

Study: Further insight into Merck HIV vax infection increase

Study: Further insight into HIV vax that increased infection

Health News - BizJournals.com
Boulder Crest Retreat to break ground in Loudoun County May 18

EntreMed keeps its listing

Scott Memorial enters agreement with Norton, LifePoint

Osceola Regional starts work on $52.6M patient tower

Mylan raises guidance, plans 500M share repurchase

Health News - CNBC
Experts unconvinced by changes to psychiatric guide

PSS World plans strategic shift after weak 4Q

FDA warns MS patients about risky stent treatment

US stocks gain on unemployment report

Cameron Health's under-skin ICD safe, effective

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
GSK, HGS Saddle Up for Acquisition Battle Valuing HGS at $2.6B

NCCN Foundation Announces 2012 Young Investigator Awards

GEN Poll Respondents 'somewhat Optimistic VC Market Will Improve This Year

Beckman Coulter to Start Sequencing Clinical Samples

CHI, BCG Issue Report on FDA's Drug Review Performance

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
NCPDP Recap: 2012 Annual Technology and Business Conference

ISTA Pharmaceuticals Highlights PROLENSA(TM) Clinical Data at the 2012 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting

Over-the-Counter Drug Sales Saw Little Boost From Recession: Kalorama

Theratechnologies Inc.: New GRF Peptide TH1173 Enters Important Pre-Clinical Phase

Theratechnologies inc. : Le nouveau peptide TH1173 entre dans une importante phase prinique

MassBio News
10 reasons to attend the BIO International Convention

New Therapy Helps Patients Soar to New Heights

BIO 2012 Massachusetts Pavillion Patient Profiles

By Popular Demand: New Professional Development Courses Aim to Meet Industry Needs

10 reasons to attend bio international convention

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Great Mother's Day Story: Dr. Barrie May just reached maternity milestone--his 10,000th delivery at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center

AnyPresence Named a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award

U.S. Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren to Address Several Hundred Frontline Nurses at Mass. Nurses Association's Clinical Conference at DCU Center

Trip to the Ob/Gyn Can Be a Heart-Warning Experience

Symposium über einen epikardialen Ansatz zur posterioren Kardialablation auf der Heart Rhythm 2012

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GTR News

GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

PubMed Health Featured Reviews

Nature Biotechnology
High-efficiency TALEN-based gene editing produces disease-resistant rice

Recasting natural product research

A work in progress

Drug pipeline: 1Q12

Biotech equities heat up in 1Q12

New York Times- Biotechnology
DEALBOOK; Human Genome Sciences Rejects A $2.59 Billion Bid From Glaxo

White House Promotes a Bioeconomy

George Rathmann, Chief of Amgen, Dies at 84

Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances

Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Took Research

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer’s Rheumatoid Arthritis Pill Wins Federal Panel’s Approval

Panel Supports Arthritis Pill

Senate Panel to Examine Painkiller Makers’ Financial Ties

Senate Panel to Examine Narcotic Drug Makers’ Financial Ties

Vertex’s Cystic Fibrosis Therapy Is Called ‘Game-Changing’

OnBioVC
ImmuneXcite, Inc.: Series A $2.4M

AirXpanders, Inc.: Series D $10.3M

MC10, Inc.: Series B $2M

CN Creative, Ltd.: Series A $3.1M

SEA Medical Systems, Inc.: Series B $3M

Outsourcing-Pharma
SGS adds formulation development services and expands US lab

Once a friend now an enemy: Over zealous EU regulators could hamper the CMO market, says analyst

Pharmas must give patients voice says DIA Europe director

Improve patient compliance by designing trials around real life, says expert

People special: social media gets job hunters noticed

Pharma News - Business Wire
Cardionovum® Will Launch Two Drug-Eluting Balloon (DEB) Dilatation Catheter Product Families at EuroPCR 2012

Research and Markets: OTC Pharmaceuticals in Singapore

CORRECTING and REPLACING The International Myeloma Foundation Says Three Studies Highlighting Myeloma Treatment-Advances Are Featured Together in the Prestigious New England Journal of Medicine

PharMerica to Present at the 11th Annual JMP Securities Research Conference

Samenvatting: New England Journal of Medicine: rapport over behandeling REVLIMID (lenalidomide) bij patiënten met multiple myeloma

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
No Kill Movement Growing In Florida, More Counties Looking To Catch The Wave

IntelliCell BioSciences Announces Frederick Frank as Executive Advisor to Board of Directors

Infraredx Announces TVC Imaging System to be Featured in Panels, Live Case Broadcasts and Plenary Session at EuroPCR 2012

Globalsurance.com Flags Hong Kong Insurance Trends

Research and Markets: 6th Asian Pacific Congress of Heart Failure (APCHF) - Post-Conference Review and Analysis

Pharma News - PR Newswire
ULURU Inc. Announces Conference Call To Discuss Financial Results For The First Quarter Ended March 31, 2012

MinuteClinic Opens Its First Walk-in Medical Clinics Inside CVS/pharmacy Stores in San Antonio

SOCMA's BPTF Welcomes House Committee Passage of FDA Reform Act

High Expectations for New U.S. Biosimilar Pharmaceuticals Following FDA Guidance Documents

CORRECTION - Bayer Animal Health: Garfield überwindet die Angst vor dem Tierarzt bei der Behandlung von Nierenleiden bei Katzen

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
: Pharmaceuticals look to cure pipeline concerns

Drug firms sign up to new tropical disease fight

Cannabis Science Presents Newest Photographs From 3rd Cancer Patient That Show Cancer Tumors Dying and Areas That Are No

Micro Labs attracts private equity and pharma interest: VCCircle

Novartis net dips by 5.3% to Rs.38 crore in Q3

PR Leap - Biotech
SHEL LAB Introduces the Bactrox Chamber

Abcam Launches Potent, Novel Dynamin Inhibitor Licensed from the University of Newcastle and Children's Medical Research Institute

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

PRWeb - Biotechnology
Clinovo Reaches Over 500 Unique Downloads of CDISC Express Since...

Skilled Professionals, Lower Costs and Increasing Government Support...

RHT Consulting Completes Breakthrough Future State Technology Transfer...

Foresight Group International AG Achieves Oracle PartnerNetwork...

The MedZilla.com Employment Report for May 2012 -- Unemployment Rate...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Aging Population, Changing Lifestyles, and the Launch of New Drugs...

Center for Human Reproduction and University of Rochester School of...

Emerson Hospital Gets More from MEDITECH with Electronic Forms on...

WhyAmIUnhealthy.com Reveals Shocking Truth about Overly Medicating and...

The Best Pain Clinics in Arizona are Now Offering Chronic Back and...

Scientific American
Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds

Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappearing, but Are Their Wild Cousins in Trouble, Too [Slide Show]

Brain Scans Reveal Dogs' Thoughts

Giant Flealike Pest Put the Bite on Dinosaurs

Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Look to Genetics

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Former Illinois guard Head transferring to SMU

Former Tulsa star Seals joins Manning's staff

Crean defends decision to end Kentucky series

Oakland wants to take Butler's place in Horizon

LSU G Turner granted release but might stay

Sports News - ESPN
Report: WVU players charged with shoplifting

NCAA: WR Arnett can play for Spartans in '12

Oklahoma bans WRs Reynolds, Franks, Jackson

Pryor took money to help family, report says

Penn State AD says program 'holding up well'

Xconomy Life Sciences
IDRI, Aeras Team Up to Develop Tuberculosis Vaccine

NY's Cancer Research Institute Looks to Boost Cancer Immunotherapy

A 10-Point Plan to Stimulate Biotech & the Economy as a Whole

Seattle Genetics Misses 1st Quarter Sales Estimate, But Sees $1B Future

San Diego's MediciNova Nears Turning Point with Lead Drug for Asthma

Yahoo Biotech News
Slow, costly process stymies generic biotech drugs (Reuters)

Analysis: Slow, costly process stymies generic biotech drugs (Reuters)

Waves Break Coral Embryo into Identical Twins (LiveScience.com)

Autoinjector Version of MS Drug Approved (HealthDay)

Fake Avastin had salt, starch, chemicals: Roche (Reuters)