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b3c newswire
Sartorius Officially Opens New Filter and Aseptic Bag Production Facility in Puerto Rico

Definiens Expands Large Data Analytics Functionality to Accelerate Image-based Research and ...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Bosch Packaging Technology Announce Global Collaboration

Sistemic Announces Customer Agreement with Cytori Therapeutics

CellCentric and ZoBio Enter into Partnership to Develop Lead Compounds Against Epigenetic Drug ...

BioSpace
Genetic Variant is Linked to Obesity and Insulin Resistance, Maastricht University Medical Center Study

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Expands and Develops Management Team

Low Testosterone Not Normal Part of Aging, University of Adelaide Study

Monitored Vitamin D Therapy Safe for Patients With High Blood Calcium Levels

Shark Oil for HIV Shot Takes Cue From Hemingway's Old Man, Novartis AG Reveals

BioSpace - Breaking News
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Completes Acquisition of EKR Therapeutics, Inc.

Perrigo Company Receives FDA Approval and Commences Launch of Clindamycin Phosphate and Benzoyl Peroxide 1.2% / 5% Gel

Topica Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 2b/3 Study of Luliconazole in Patients With Onychomycosis of the Toenails

Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. Reports Positive Preliminary Results for AT2220

EvaluatePharma Names Debbie Paul CEO, Americas to Lead Growth in Key Region

Biotech News - Business Wire
Aptus Endosystems Completes $25 Million Series BB Financing

World Coagulation Testing Market Analyzed in New VPG Study Published at MarketPublishers.om

Arcadia Biosciences and Bioseed Research India to Develop Long Shelf Life Tomato

California Stem Cell Medical Director Robert O. Dillman, M.D. to Present Details, Phase II Trial Results of Melanoma Therapy at Biotherapeutics & Stem Cell Processing Symposium

Unibased Systems Architecture to Support the Transition to ICD-10 for Medical Diagnosis and Inpatient Procedure Coding in Newest ForSite2020® Release

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Technology Industry Executive Joins TriCore Solutions' Management Team as Executive Vice President

Selexis Lubris Partnership Advances Difficult-to-Express Protein Towards Clinic

Roche introduces cobas p 312 pre-analytical system as compact, front-end automation solution for sample management in US and Canada

Prosperous Agriculture Reports Outstanding Sales Result for First Half of 2012

Biggest Names in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare Industry to Gather for Groundbreaking Event in Parsippany, New Jersey on September 11-12, 2012

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
Celgene Withdraws EU Application for Revlimid

Celgene Withdraws EU Application for Revlimed

BGI and Hospital Plan to Sequence 1,000 Rare Diseases

BIO Study: Bayh-Dole Shows Big Returns

The Biotech Story You Wont Read in your Local Newspaper

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: Deglutition Disorders Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Biodesix Proteomic Analysis of Innovative Immunotherapy Clinical Trial in Pancreas Cancer Presented at European Society of Medical Oncology's (ESMO) World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer

Nashville based VenX, LLC Announces Firstin-Man Clinicals for New Vein Treatment Technology

M*Modal Selected by TransTech Medical Solutions for Best-in-Class Clinical Documentation

Nevro Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patents for Innovative Chronic Pain Treatment

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Researchers Evaluate Computer-based Treatment for People with Schizophrenia

The Expanding Role Of Integrative Medicine In Cancer Treatment

PTC Therapeutics Initiates Open-Label Study for Ataluren in Patients with Nonsense Mutation Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy

PRIMA Study Shows Treatment with Privigen® Improved Function in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Lancet Neurology veröffentlicht wichtige Phase-III-Studiendaten zum Einsatz von Zonisamid in 1x täglicher Gabe in der Monotherapie für Patienten mit neu diagnostizierter fokaler Epilepsie

CNN Top Stories
Movie hunks get naked, naughty

Contempt vote on Holder still on

Watch a fireworks stand explode

Rielle: Edwards breakup 'painful'

Matt Sandusky tells of years of abuse

Contract Pharma
Roche To Close Former U.S. HQ

Covance To Boost Greenfield Site

Impact, Tolmar in Generic Topical Pact

Patheon in Pact with AdventRx

SL Pharma Expands CRO Offerings

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Cefepime and risk of seizure in patients not receiving dosage adjustments for kidney impairment

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 News - Business Wire
Tonix Pharmaceuticals to Present at LHA Life Sciences & Medical Technologies Virtual Conference on June 28

DIA 2012 Annual Meeting Panel Features Heads of FDA, EMA, and Health Canada

Enhance Lyme Disease Confirmation Testing With Line Immunossay Technology

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Receives Health Canada Clearance to Study a Novel Treatment for Fibromyalgia

Alnylam Expands and Develops Management Team

FDA Press Releases
FDA allows marketing of first test to identify certain bacteria associated with bloodstream infections

FDA approves first glaucoma stent for use with cataract surgery

Updated FDA Statement on Compounded Versions of hydroxyprogesterone caproate (the active ingredient in Makena)

FDA approves new combination vaccine that protects children against two bacterial diseases

FDA urges that oysters, clams, mussels, and some types of scallops from Korea should be removed from the market

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Direct Recall Classification Program

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

FierceBiotech
Report: 5 biopharma companies prep final offers for Amylin

Celgene offers up to $500M for promising antibody

Supernus shares soar on epilepsy drug OK

Covance blueprints $150M CRO expansion, ready to hire 465

PDUFA bill breezes through Senate, on way to president

FierceBiotech IT
Mobile tech isn't ideal for recruitment in clinical trials

DIA Update: BioClinica, Clinical Ink and PharmaVigilant CEOs map future of electronic clinical trials

Why Microsoft's Yammer buyout matters in pharma

Shifting gears from $1,000 genome to big data analytics

Oracle rolls out cloud apps for clinical trial recruitment

FierceBiotech Research
Scientists wield human stem cells to engineer blood-brain barrier structures

Cleveland BioLabs drug, chemo kill neuroblastomas in mice

At long last, 2nd controversial look at bird flu virus finally published

U.K. researchers enhance tracking for stem cell injections

Isis drug achieves Huntington's breakthrough in rodents

FiercePharma
Amylin shareholder sues board for self-enrichment

Drug-buying moves threaten sales from India to Ireland

GSK chief: Europe's woes may slice pharma prices by 6%

NICE says yes to Tarceva, Zytiga, Botox, no to Herceptin, Tyverb

Merck, AstraZeneca rejig stomach-drug partnership

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Stryker closing 2 Gaymar plants to cut costs

Novartis plant in Russia two years out

Cook Indiana plant gets FDA approval for vial filling

FDA lifts import alert for AkzoNobel plant

Stryker closing 2 Gaymar plant to cut costs

FierceVaccines
Therapeutic cancer vaccines: Optimism for the future at BIO 2012

Anthrax vax to move into new Phase II trials

CSL flu shot fits linked to viral components

Controversy halts HPV vax trial in India

HPV DNA vax should enter the clinic in 2013

Health News - BizJournals.com
CVS's MinuteClinic headed to Cincinnati

Blue Cross will pay $100 to members who reach health goals

Congress passes FDA bill; drugs, devices may get faster approval

Cutters Gloves purchased by Shock Doctor

Rensselaer stem cell researcher receives $3 million in awards

Health News - CNBC
No excess suicide risk found with asthma drugs

ObamaCare: What Happens When Supreme Court Decides

Medtronic wins U.S. patent case over stent grafts

Cornerstone Therapeutics buys EKR Therapeutics

Spanish forced to pay up for drugs as cuts bite

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
FDA Bill Sails Through Senate

Harrington Project Establishes BioMotiv Commercialization Arm

GenesisCare Announces Investment by KKR

Sartorius Opens Facility in Puerto Rico

GEN TEN Saluted at BIO 2012

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Hepregen Corporation Receives National Science Foundation Grant Under SBIR Phase II-B Program

International Anesthesia Research Society Awards $750,000 Research Grant to Study Safety of Pediatric Anesthesia

Experienced Life Science Executive Joins biOasis Board of Directors

MethylGene Announces the Appointment of Dr. Rodney Lappe to its Board of Directors

MethylGene annonce la nomination de Dr Rodney Lappe on conseil d'administration

MassBio News
MassBio Releases 2012 Complete Guide to the New England Life Sciences Industry at BIO

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

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Derry Medical and Derry Imaging Select Calypso for Website Redesign

PM Pediatrics Announces First-Ever Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine Fellowship Set to Launch July 1, 2012

Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau announces launch of Medical Meetings Initiative; recruits top leaders to Advisory Council

Combat Medical Systems buyout of Z-Medica ushers in new growth

Barbados Fertility Centre: Do you really need an app to tell you when to have sex

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
Pediatric Prescriptions Down for Allergies, Up for A.D.H.D.

In Documents on Pain Drug Celebrex, Signs of Doubt and Deception

Newswallah: Long Reads Edition

Former N.F.L. Quarterback Leaf Sentenced to Addiction Treatment

Roche and Seaside Team Up to Develop Autism Drugs

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
Wockhardt targets CMO space for diversification

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

Pharma News - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation: Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Company Profile, SWOT & Financial Report

Research and Markets: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2019

Ligand to Present at the JMP Securities 7th Annual Healthcare Conference

Trifecta Announces Release of Investigator Training Technology: InvestigatorSpace.com

Accelr8 Closes on Investment

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Statement from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on Passage of the EXPERRT Act in the U.S. Senate

Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation Launches New Website with Updated Features and Research Rich Content

Webinar, Featuring Health Care Analyst Jeff Goldsmith and Eliza's Alexandra Drane, Offers Immediate Answers to Questions about the Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Ruling

Elastin-rp Receives Endorsement by Celebrated Plastic Surgeon Dr. Jon Perlman

Roche to streamline research and development activities

Pharma News - PR Newswire
NanoMarkets Releases New Report on Thin-Film and Printed Batteries

Arena Pharmaceuticals and Eisai Announce FDA Approval of BELVIQ® (lorcaserin HCl) for Chronic Weight Management in Adults who are Overweight with a Comorbidity or Obese

GlaxoSmithKline Employees Embark on Long-Term Volunteer Assignments throughout the World

Omeros Prices $30 Million Public Offering of Common Stock

Star Scientific Announces Noteworthy Anatabloc® Scientific Presentation at ENDO 2012

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
picoSpin-45 Miniature NMR Spectrometer Wins R&D 100 Award

First Genetic Cure For Cancer Anchors Provocative New Thriller

Aesthetics Pharmaceutical Company Selects 360 Vantage Closed Loop...

BIT Companies and DRG Diagnostics Unveil First Hybrid Analyzer

Oil 4 Less LLC, the Home of Codatron TM Announces New Management...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
iPatientCare Interviewed by Health Data Management for Evolution of...

Kidney Cancer Association's Survivors Project

Gold Standard Gum Disease Treatment From Eludril And Elgydium

CSS's Software Solutions Enhance Patient Outcomes

Gammagard Approved for Multifocal Motor Neuropathy: Severe Adverse...

Scientific American
Anticlotting Compounds Shown to Protect Mice from Radiation Poisoning

How the Brain Views Race

California Condors Face Menace of Carcasses Laden with Bullet Lead

Oil Exploration Ramps Up in U.S. Arctic

Anti-Clotting Compounds Shown to Protect Mice from Radiation Poisoning

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Providence recruit Dunn may miss five months

MSU-UConn to open Nov. 9 in Germany

Brennan: Projecting NBA draft lottery based on NCAA production

Calipari: Mizzou, A&M make strongest SEC ever

Former Houston standout Luckenbill dies at 72

Sports News - ESPN
Stanford takes 18th consecutive Directors' Cup

NCAA presidents approve 4-team playoff

Wojciechowski: Pop the cork for a playoff

Aggies suspend Jenkins, Matthews for 1 game

NCAA presidents approve 4-team playoff for '14

Xconomy Life Sciences
Remembering Walter Zable and Cubic's Era of Electronics Innovation

NJ Shocker: Roche to Shutter Nutley R&D Site

Roche Deal Gives Seaside a Leg Up in Autism Race

NPS Rallies as Good News Flows for Two Rare-Disease Drugs

Clash of the BioPharma Titans Looms Over Biosimilars

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)