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UBICHEM Group Adds New Large Scale Manufacturing Site

Fundación MEDINA Announces Drug Discovery Collaboration with Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

GLYCOTOPE Moves FSH-GEX into Phase-II Clinical Development

President of Israeli Weizmann Institute Meets with Representatives of the Health Axis Europe ...

Omixon Releases Omixon Target for Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis for Diagnostics

BioSpace
Shire plc's Advanced BioHealing, Inc. Plans Hundreds of New Jobs in San Diego Expansion

Long Term Insulin Not Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, Cancer, McMaster University Study

Amgen's Xgeva Wins U.K. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Backing for Some Cancer Patients

Savara Raises $8.6 Million in Series B Financing Round

New Stroke Treatment Could Prevent and Reduce Brain Damage, University of Missouri Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
Pharming Group Undertakes Review of Strategic Options

Sinopharm Group to Float $1.3 Billion in Bonds

New Epidemiological Data Provide Additional Safety Evidence for Sanofi (France)'s Lantus(R)

NeuroDigm Reveals How Chronic Pain Begins in a GEL Animal Model of Neuropathic Pain

Summit Corporation Achieves SMT C1100 Phase 1 Dosing Milestone that Triggers Milestone Payment

Biotech News - Business Wire
2012 BIO International Convention International Leadership Award Winner Announced

Research and Markets: Company Study of Walvax Biotechnology Co, Ltd.,2012

Research and Markets: Biolubricants: A North American and European Market Report

US Market for Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation Devices to Reach Value of over $1.6 Billion by 2016

Identigene Promotes Donna Housley to Lab Director, Strengthens Laboratory Leadership

Biotech News - PR Newswire
HemoShear Publishes Key Review on Human-Relevant Organotypic Systems

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Completes EUSA Pharma Acquisition

Psychemedics Corporation Receives New, Additional FDA Clearances for Hair Analysis Drug Testing

Is Brazil the Next Big Thing in Healthcare

Fortis Vice President of Nursing Robert Anders Named Academy of Nursing Education Fellow by National League for Nursing

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
California Smoking Tax Vote Outcome Too Close to Call

D Bomb

Astellas and Drais Partner to Launch Virtual Company

Dr. Reddy's and Merck Serono Partner on Biosimilars

Chelsea Execs Take Pay Cuts Amid Troubles

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: Metastatic Cancer Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Endosense Announces CE Mark Approval, First Clinical Use of the New TactiCath® Quartz Force-Sensing Ablation Catheter

Presentatie van gegevens over de EndoBarrier®-therapie van GI Dynamics tijdens de 72e wetenschappelijke sessies van de ADA

Samenvatting: CardioKinetix start in Duitsland proef voor behandeling van hartfalen

Resumen: CardioKinetix inicia ensayo europeo postmercado del primer tratamiento de su clase mínimamente invasivo para insuficiencias cardiacas en Alemania

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Multi-Center Clinical Study Intensifies First Strike at High-Risk Cancer in Kids

Echo Therapeutics Presents Positive Clinical Trial Results of the Symphony® tCGM System at the American Diabetes Association's 72nd Scientific Sessions

Positive Ergebnisse der ersten klinischen Studien an Menschen zu einem neuartigen System für künstliche Bauchspeicheldrüsen stellen bedeutenden Fortschritt für Diabetes-Typ-1-Patienten dar

Feasibility of Artificial Pancreas System Demonstrated in Real-World Setting

Resultados positivos de los primeros ensayos clínicos humanos de un sistema artificial de páncreas

CNN Top Stories
Music rebel plays organ in his mind

'Dallas': The original sinner returns

Holder wants deal on 'Furious' docs

Apple snubs Google

Opinion: More debt OK if it adds jobs

Contract Pharma
Stiefel Licenses Toctino from Basilea

Polyphor, Boehringer Form Discovery Pact

Lilly Expands Novast Pact in China

ADVENTRX, Pierre Fabre in Multi-year Manufacturing Pact

Cobra, Alligator Form Alliance

FDA Drugs- What's New
Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Recomendaciones modificadas para observación cardiovascular y uso del medicamento Gilenya (fingolimod) para la esclerosis múltiple

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Recomendaciones modificadas para observación cardiovascular y uso del medicamento Gilenya (fingolimod) para la esclerosis múltiple

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Informe actualizado sobre la seguridad del medicamento Revlimid (lenalidomida) para el cáncer y el riesgo de nuevos tipos de neoplasias (nuevos tipos de cáncer)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Informe actualizado sobre la seguridad del medicamento Revlimid (lenalidomida) para el cáncer y el riesgo de nuevos tipos de neoplasias (nuevos tipos de cáncer)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Revised recommendations for cardiovascular monitoring and use of multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya (fingolimod)

FDA News - Business Wire
Avinger Completes Enrollment of PAD-Focused CONNECT II Global Clinical Trial

Biogen Idec presentará una innovadora estrategia comercial y de cartera

Immunetics Receives FDA Clearance for BacTx Rapid Test for Bacterial Contamination of Platelets

Samenvatting: Biogen Idec belicht commerciële strategie

Edimer Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Lead Compound EDI200

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves Perjeta for type of late-stage breast cancer

U.S. Marshals seized misbranded drugs in Maine

FDA warns consumers about counterfeit version of Teva's Adderall

FDA issues alert on Reumofan Plus

U.S. Marshals seize unapproved new drug from Crescendo Therapeutics LLC

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Draft Guidance for Industry: Amendment to Guidance for Industry: Revised Preventive Measures to Reduce the Possible Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood and Blood Products

Procleix Ultrio Plus Assay

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

FierceBiotech
Third Rock takes lead on $33M C round for antibody upstart Igenica

Sanofi presents parallel apps for blockbuster MS hopeful Lemtrada

Buzz: GlaxoSmithKline interested in BioMarin buyout

GSK continues deal spree with $302M pact for Basilea eczema drug

Lilly takes aim at blockbuster Lantus with promising PhII diabetes drug data

FierceBiotech IT
Stanford spinoff debuts cloud-based R&D software

Pharma rocks many Twitter handles for many reasons

Biogen vet tapped as CIO of Harvard Med School

Novartis predicts drug side effects with computers

Lilly leads docs to cancer drug trials with iPad app

FierceBiotech Research
Enzyme revealed to be bacteria-killing maestro after all

New drug shows reduces post-stroke brain damage risk in mice

2 HIV drugs prevent breast cancer metastasis in preclinical trials

Anti-rejection drug for bone marrow transplants to hit human trials by 2016

A special stem cell may cause deadly vascular disease

FiercePharma
NICE does an about-face, nixing cancer nod on Xgeva

Supreme Court to put Amgen shareholders' class action on trial

Expect a bump to GSK's Human Genome offer, but not a big one

Cubist aims for $2B in sales amid dearth of new antibiotics

Forest Labs slashes forecast on wilting Lexapro sales

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Fresenius' Kabi unit prospers on competitors' mistakes

Maker of disinfectant systems for dialysis gets FDA warning

AmerisourceBergen repackages 2 units to create largest U.S. contract packager

Lilly expands manufacturing in China with Novast deal

Siemens faces more issues with U.S. regulators

FierceVaccines
Vax, hormone combo could up efficacy in prostate cancer

NewLink Genetics takes the stage at ASCO

PCP vaccine close to clinical trials

Polynoma's melanoma vax pushes into late-stage clinical trials

AFFiRiS' Parkinson's therapeutic vax starts clinical trials

Health News - BizJournals.com
Congressmen campaigning against medical device tax at Neuronetics

MD Anderson Orlando gets first TomoHD System for cancer patients

Jeremy Clark to succeed Mullins as Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett CEO

Langhorne consumer health products maker hires ad firm

Carolinas HealthCare adds five Triad hospitals

Health News - CNBC
Lilly makes bigger investment in China drugmaker

Gray to retire at Icon

Diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer, WHO says

Ask all women about abuse, says task force

Omnicell increases its fiscal 2012 guidance

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 Pays Basilea £146M Up Front for Approved Dermatology Product Toctino

Produce Safety Researchers Awarded by ABC Research Laboratories

Europe's IMI Launches Third Wave of Projects Totaling 215M

Sorrento Wins $600K to Develop MRSA Antibodies that Disrupt Quorum Sensing

Blaze Bioscience Scores $5M to Move Tumor Paint Technology into Clinic

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Mediatum to Exhibit at BIO 2012 International Convention

Pfizer Animal Health Extends Support for the AKC Canine Health Foundation

Mobile Medical Apps a Fast Growing Market: Kalorama

Emerald Bio Announces Unprecedented Multi-Target 3D Structural Biology Success

Cornerstone Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Laura Shawver to Board of Directors

MassBio News
500 Massachusetts High School Students Spend a Day in Biotech Laboratories

Xenetic Biosciences moves drug development program to Massachusetts following Governor Patrick's Trade Mission to the UK

Breaking: MassBio Applauds House for Passage of PDUFA

Charlton is BioReady

Visit the MA Pavilion @ BIO 2012

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Bob Saget: A Conversation about Scleroderma

Global Market for Medical Imaging Equipment to Reach $25.3 Billion as Retiring Boomers and Emerging Markets Demand Better Healthcare

United Spinal To "Roll on Capitol Hill:" Voices Aim to Impact Federal Health Care Policy

Ikaria® To Present At 2012 BIO International Convention

Meet Dr. Daral J. Jackwood, Advocate of Open Access Science

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
European agricultural policy goes down the tubers

The need for innovation in biomanufacturing

Should preclinical studies be registered

Reaching across the table

The gatekeepers of effectiveness

New York Times- Biotechnology
Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

Study Backs Continuous Prostate Cancer Treatment

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
E-Mails Highlight Extent of Obama’s Deal With Industry on Health Care

When Children Take Drugs to Succeed

Experimental Surgery Targets Stubbornly High Blood Pressure

Genentech Wins Approval For New Breast Cancer Drug

Johnson & Johnson Reserves Funds for Settlement

OnBioVC
Stemgent, Inc.: Series C $6.3M

Genalyte, Inc.: Series A $11.8M

Relievant Medsystems, Inc.: Series D $30M

ImaginAb, Inc.: Series A $12.5M

BiO2 Medical, Inc.: Series B $13.7M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Overhaul of EU health systems good opportunity for outcomes data providers, says Quintiles

Home visits = regulatory thumbs up ResearchNurses.co thinks so

Home visits are the key to patient retention, says ResearchNurses.co

Kemwell and Boehringer set to finish biologics plant in India

R&D and commercial work together to design trials, says DIA

Pharma News - Business Wire
BioScale Appoints Proteomics Leader Martin Latterich as Chief Scientific Officer

Abbott Norge AS Swiftly Implements Cegedim Relationship Management's Award Winning* Mobile Intelligence Cloud-Based CRM Solution

Riassunto: Abbott Norge AS ha velocemente implementato la soluzione CRM cloud-based pluripremiata* Mobile Intelligence di Cegedim Relationship Management

Abbott Norge AS implementiert preisgekrönte*, cloudbasierte CRM-Lösung Mobile Intelligence von Cegedim Relationship Management

IMeBIO to Introduce Its New Range of Mobile BSL-2 & BSL-3 Laboratories, Delivered Fully Operational & Ready to Use

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Canada's first Ronald McDonald Care Mobile launches in Calgary, Alberta

Blues team with Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford for National Men's Health Week

Spend management firm Science Science Warehouse continues to expand despite economic turmoil

Save the Children Pledges Financial Support for the International NGO Safety and Security Association

Tracking Study: Rural Healthcare Reveals High Value for Americans

Pharma News - PR Newswire
CPhI South America: Indústria farmacêutica recebe na Argentina o 5o Road Show do principal evento de ingredientes e serviços do setor

CPhI South America: Industria farmacéutica recibe en Argentina al 5o Road Show del principal evento de ingredientes y servicios del sector

Global survey finds one in four type 2 diabetes patients do not take basal insulin as prescribed and more than a third suffer from hypoglycemia

Depomed To Present At Wells Fargo Securities 2012 Healthcare Conference

Cempra Inc. Doses First Patients in Solithromycin (CEM-101) Phase 2 Trial in Uncomplicated Urogenital Gonococcal Infections

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
SeraCare Launches First Of Its Kind Anti-Dengue Performance Panel

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to Speak at DIA 2012 48th Annual...

PCE, Inc. Among ICIC and Fortune Magazine's Inner City 100 Winners

Trek Connect, Inc., Achieves SAE AS9100 Revision C Quality Management...

International Science Groups Appeal to Iran for Release of Optics...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
U.S. Students Take Third Place at Volvo Adventure Awards in Gothenburg

Kit Check Solves Age Old Problems With Incorrect and Expired...

17th Annual UnitedHealthCare Empire Challenge To Showcase Top Local...

Brent C.J. Britton Announced as Host of "Creating Happy" on...

eTERA Consulting Announces Unique End-to-End Forens1cs One (sm)...

Scientific American
Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Don't Drink the Water

Better Lithium Ion Battery Aims to Re-Energize Electric Cars

Extended Forecast: Northern Hemisphere Could Be in for Extreme Winters

NASA Scientists Fight Budget Cuts with 'Bake Sale'

Giant Reef Fish Head-Butt Rivals for Sex

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Temple's Wyatt arrested in prostitution sting

C-USA tournament headed to Tulsa in 2013

St. John's receives commitment from Obekpa

Fan who faces drug charges flew with Mizzou

Vols' top rebounder Maymon has minor surgery

Sports News - ESPN
Michigan set to unretire President Ford's No. 48

Accuser No. 2: 'I froze' in Sandusky encounters

Cops leave home; Auburn suspect still at large

Montana, ex-coach Pflugrad reach payout deal

LSU's Mathieu, Bama's McCarron in Twitter war

Xconomy Life Sciences
Qualcomm Offers Cash Prizes for Mobile Apps at Uplinq Hackathon

Acucela, Turning 10, Gears Up for Pivotal Test With Eye Drug

JOBS Act: Important Benefits for Startups Not on the IPO On-Ramp

Ford's Sustainability Roadmap: From EVs to a Future Beyond Cars

Shire Unveils Plan for SD Campus, Regenerative Medicine Expansion

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)