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b3c newswire
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

Cytheris SA Appoints as Chief Executive Officer

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

BioSpace - Breaking News
Pharming Group Redeems Final Tranche of Convertible Bond

Prima Biomed Shareholders' Briefing Webcast & Dial In Details

Celgene Corporation Board Authorizes Additional $2.5 Billion Share Buyback

UCB, Inc. and Conclude First Phase of Discovery Chemistry Collaboration

Full Spectrum Genetics and BioBlocks, Inc. Enter Collaboration to Discover Novel Small Molecule Therapeutics That Inhibit a Commercially Validated Cancer Target

Biotech News - Business Wire
Cannabis Science Published on HIV Haven.com Cannabinoid Research Shows Promise for HIV TAT Inhibition Authored by Dr. Robert Melamede, Ph.D. and Dr. David Miller, Ph.D.

CircuLite® to Present at Wells Fargo Securities Healthcare Conference

Golden Helix Establishes Direct Presence in Japan

Aeris Therapeutics Receives US Patent 8,198,365 with Broad Claims to Methods of Non-Surgical Lung Volume Reduction

RF Surgical Awarded Contract from HealthTrust Purchasing Group

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Pitavastatin bei LDL-C-Senkung äquivalent mit anderen Statinen, aber bei Wirkung auf HDL-C und Triglyzeride überlegen, zeigt Durchsicht von Primärveröffentlichungen

Algae Farm (USA) Patent Update

Generex Announces OncUView.tv Interviews Featuring the Antigen Express AE37 Breast Cancer Vaccine at ASCO 2012

FDA Clears New Siemens SOMATOM Perspective CT Scanner

New Applications in Drug Discovery Platforms to Fuel Advance of Stem Cells, Says Frost & Sullivan

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
Endosense Completes Enrollment in TOCCASTAR IDE Study of Its TactiCath® Force-Sensing Ablation Catheter

SANUWAVE Technology Shown to Prevent Osteoarthritis Onset Over Time

New Data Presented at the Society for Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting Supports Efficacy Profile of Imaging Agent [18F]Flutemetamol for Detection of Amyloid Plaque Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Pistachios Shown to Help Reduce Blood Pressure and Biological Responses to Everyday Stress

Research and Markets: Metastatic Cancer Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
JDRF and Novo Nordisk Establish R&D Collaboration for Type 1 Diabetes

Innovimmune Biotherapeutics Receives NIH Grant for Development of Novel Automimmune Compounds

Had it With Lice New Innovative Treatment Kills Head Lice, Eggs and Larvae in Seconds

ICU Medical's Custom IV System with MicroClave® Needlefree Connector Shown to Help Reduce NICU Infection Rates and Medication Errors

Heart Rhythm Study Shows CardioFocus HeartLight EAS Provides Durable Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

CNN Top Stories
Homeless man finds, keeps $77,000

U.S. drone fires on al Qaeda hideouts

Cops get creative tracking pimp

Couple stuck 9 days in wilderness

Suspect in Auburn killings surrenders

Contract Pharma
Almac Introduces QP Program for EU Trials

Financial Report: Patheon 2Q12

Cytovance Wins BiologicsMD Contract

SGS Opens Assay Lab in France

ASI Becomes Tergus Pharma

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
Stratatech's StrataGraft® Skin Substitute Granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation

Resumen: Avinger finaliza la inscripción de pacientes en el ensayo clínico mundial CONNECT II en pacientes con enfermedad arterial periférica

New Phase III Data Showed Merck's Investigational Insomnia Medicine Suvorexant Improved Patients' Ability to Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep

OSI Systems Introduces AriaTele Telemetry Transmitter

SORIN GROUP ET ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES LANCENT UNE SOLUTION DE SUIVI A DISTANCE DES PATIENTS PORTEURS DAPPAREILS CARDIAQUES EN EUROPE

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
Newron snaps up Karolinska CNS spinoff in $20M buyout deal

Upsher-Smith embraces biotech with $553M deal to buy Proximagen

Merck preps FDA app after racking up positive PhIIIs on new sleep drug

Rhythm banks $25M for mid-stage work on diabetes, obesity drugs

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

FierceBiotech IT
Sequoia-backed startup enters race to make sense of the genome

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

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
AstraZeneca cuts 400 jobs in Sweden

Are the dog days over for Johnson & Johnson

Big Pharma's Japanese sales gain as U.S., Europe lag

Pharma's Top 5 Golden Handshakes of the Last 5 Years

Merck plots FDA app as sleep drug aces new trial

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
Nurses to strike at Bay Area Sutter hospitals

Florida Hospital Medical Group, MinuteClinic agree to collaboration

Analytical Solutions changes name, looks to hire

CalPERS plans premium hikes

Top pay in nonprofit arts and media slideshow

Health News - CNBC
Merck insomnia drug meets goal in 2 studies

Fish oil supplements may not prevent mental decline

Imaging use up in HMOs, adds to radiation worry

Merck sleep drug hits most goals of pivotal trials

Being heavy may help men with one type of cancer: study

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
Upsher-Smith Takes Over Proximagen for CNS Disease Therapeutics

Rhythm Scores $25M to Advance Peptide Treatments for Metabolic Disorders

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

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Kessler Foundation Names John O'Neill, PhD, to Rehabilitation Research Team

Lundbeck's Innovative Alzheimer's Drug Met Primary Cognition Endpoint

Radiant Sage's CEO Venkatesan Thangaraj to Chair Panel at DIA 2012

MdBio Foundation to Launch National Gaming Initiative to Improve U.S. STEM Education

EPIC Alliance Addresses Hot Topics for Female Electrophysiologists at Cardiostim 2012

MassBio News
CB Richard Ellis N.E. Partners, LP Brings MassBio to Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.'s 300 Technology Square

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

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Masimo Signs Pronto-7 Distribution Deal with Henry Schein

Inovalon to Present at AHIP's Institute 2012

Omega Laboratories Applauds the Adoption of Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA) by Major Hair Testing Laboratories

Asthma Prevalence at Its Highest Level Ever

Cardiosolutions, Inc. Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Dexterity Steerable Introducer

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
Human Genome Sciences Rejects A $2.59 Billion Bid From Glaxo

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

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
Alexion to Present at Wells Fargo Securities Healthcare Conference

Leaders in Personalized Medicine to Discuss Clinical and Market Access Challenges at 4th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference

BIO Announces Dr. Michael Rosenblatt, Merck Chief Medical Officer, as Keynote Speaker for the BIO Convention in China

Research and Markets: Pressure Ulcers Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Research and Markets: Game Changers in Breast Cancer Therapies

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Healthcare Professionals Honored With 2012 Guiding Light Caregiver Awards

Seventh Sense Biosystems Appoints President and CEO and Closes $10 Million Series-A Financing

Exploring the E-space at Pharma E-marketing Congress

Smile Train: Allowing Patients Born with Cleft Lip and Palate to Live Normal Lives

CKO Kickboxing Seeks Family Oriented Franchisees at International Franchise Expo

Pharma News - PR Newswire
FMC Corporation Acquires Phytone, Ltd., a Leading European Natural Colors Business

Vincent Mehdizadeh, Founder and CEO of Prescription Vending Machines, Inc., a subsidiary of Medbox, Inc., Featured on Smallcapvoice.com

As Pertussis Cases Climb, Survey Shows Most Parents With Young Children Overlook Vital Precaution That Helps Protect Babies

Clinical Safety Data for ChromaDex®'s Patented pTeroPure® (pterostilbene) Released at 6th World Congress on Polyphenols Applications in Paris

Herborium Group Updates Shareholders on Potential Acquisition

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
Romer Labs Launches New Website

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

PRWeb - Biotechnology
Specialty Pharmaceutical Company Selects 360 Vantage for Integrated...

Parabel, Inc. and Lemna Asia SDN BHD Sign License Agreement

The Top Science Fiction Novel of 2011 Now Only $3.95 as Thrilling...

BioPharm Systems to Exhibit at the 2012 DIA Annual Meeting in...

SeraCare Launches First Of Its Kind Anti-Dengue Performance Panel

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Terry Yon Fights for Higher Standards of Efficiency in American...

Diabetes Support Supplements a New Product from ProactiveLife Contains...

HGH Facts and Definitive Information Now Available at HGHLive.com

Top Secret Nutrition Announces the Signing of Ultimate Fighting...

Zosma Ventures Files Suit in Federal Court Against Alleged...

Scientific American
Walking the Line: How to Identify Safe Limits for Human Impacts on the Planet

Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: A Michigan Tribe Battles a Global Corporation

Genome Test Slammed for Assessing 'Racial Purity'

Scientific Journal Offers Flat Fee to Authors for 'All You Can Publish'

NASA Scientists Fight Budget Cuts with "Bake Sale"

Sports - ESPN Basketball
N.D. vote lets school boot Fighting Sioux name

Trial of Oklahoma State's Williams postponed

Temple's Wyatt arrested in prostitution sting

C-USA tournament headed to Tulsa in 2013

St. John's receives commitment from Obekpa

Sports News - ESPN
Football league's new rules aim to protect kids

Tuesday talks deemed positive by BCS officials

Auburn killing suspect turns himself in to police

Official: Auburn killing suspect has been caught

Docs contradict testimony from Penn St. brass

Xconomy Life Sciences
InDi Unit Looks to Take PET Imaging From Black & White to Technicolor

New InDi Unit Looks to Take PET Imaging From Black & White to Technicolor

Rhythm Drums Up $25M to Advance Diabetes and Obesity Drugs

Merck Sleep Drug Hits Trial Goals, Raising Hopes for New Blockbuster

Dental Implant Startup Wins Top Prize at UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge

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)