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b3c newswire
BioWelder® TC: Fully Automated Device for Welding Large and Liquid-Filled TPE Tubing

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

BioSpace
Jennerex, Inc. Appoints as President and Chief Executive Officer

Health Canada Warns Hospira, Inc. Over Paclitaxel Batches

Injecting Life-Saving Oxygen Into a Vein, Study

OxyContin Maker, Purdue Pharma L.P., Guards Exclusivity

"Death Carrot" Could Hold the Key to New Cancer Drugs, Johns Hopkins University Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
Synta Pharmaceuticals Announces Results from Interim Analysis of the Randomized Phase 2b/3 GALAXY Trial Evaluating Ganetespib Plus Docetaxel in Second-Line Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company Initiates TOURMALINE-MM1 Pivotal Phase 3 Trial of MLN9708 in Patients With Relapsed and/or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Expansion of Phase 3 NAPOLI-1 Study of MM-398 in Late Stage Pancreatic Cancer

Isotechnika Pharma Inc.'s Partner 3SBio Inc. Recieves Approval for Phase 3 Trial of Voclosporin in China

New Publication in Two-Year Study in Over 1,500 Patients Compares Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company's Trajenta (Linagliptin) to the Commonly Prescribed Sulphonylurea Glimepiride

Biotech News - Business Wire
Fluxion Biosciences Announces Collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine for Circulating Tumor Cell Analysis

Verastem Announces Annual Research and Development Day and Webcast

US Orthopedic Extremity Device Market to Reach $4.2 Billion by 2016

MPR Hires Bruce Gray to Product Development Group

GenSpera G-202 Data in Peer-Reviewed Journal Supports Prodrug Strategy

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Innovation Leaders from Across Industries will Convene to Share Best Practices and Breakthrough Successes at Open Innovation Leadership Summit

Janssen Acquires CorImmun

Access Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Data From MuGard Phase 4 Clinical Trial In Oral Mucositis At MASCC/ISOO 2012 Symposium

Unigene's Oral PTH Phase 2 Proof-of-Concept Data to be Presented at Upcoming Scientific Conferences

3SBio Obtains SFDA Approval to Join Global Phase III Trial for Voclosporin

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
EndoGastric Solutions Announces Second Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing TIF Procedure to PPI Therapy for the Treatment of GERD

Research and Markets: Sjogren's Syndrome Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

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

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
La reducción potencial de Hem-Avert® en secciones de cesárea podría reducir significativamente el coste del parto

Mögliche Verringerung der Anzahl von Kaiserschnitten durch Hem-Avert® könnte die Entbindungskosten signifikant reduzieren

La réduction potentielle du nombre de césariennes grâce à Hem-Avert® pourrait réduire de manière significative les coûts liés à l'accouchement

Researchers Evaluate Computer-based Treatment for People with Schizophrenia

The Expanding Role Of Integrative Medicine In Cancer Treatment

CNN Top Stories
Farmers parody LMFAO song

Purse-snatching turns violent

Reporter stripped, sexually attacked

5-4 decision affirms individual mandate

Weather may calm wildfires

Contract Pharma
Merck Serono, Quintiles in Employment Collaboration

Roche To Close Former U.S. HQ

Covance To Boost Greenfield Site

Impact, Tolmar in Generic Topical Pact

Patheon in Pact with AdventRx

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
Supreme Court Affordable Care Act Ruling Must Now Lead to Implementation That Will Promote Innovation and Expand Access, Says BIO

Even with Three Potential Launches on the Multiple Sclerosis Market Horizon, U.S. Neurologists Continue to Anticipate Significant Growth for Tysabri and Gilenya over the Next Six Months, According to a Recent BioTrends Report

Gilead presenta solicitud de nuevo fármaco ante la FDA de EE.UU. para elvitegravir, un inhibidor de la integrasa contra el VIH para pacientes que ya hayan recibido tratamiento

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

Gilead reicht New Drug Application für HIV-Integraseinhibitor Elvitegravir für vorbehandelte Patienten bei US-Behörde FDA ein

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves Belviq to treat some overweight or obese adults

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 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
Vertex shares slide as analysts query final data on PhII CF trial

Biotech threats disappear as Supreme Court upholds health law

FDA offers Bayer, Onyx fast review for regorafenib

Nicotine-fighting antibodies may offer a new approach to treating addiction

Success in PhII clears Vertex's path to late-stage study of cystic fibrosis combo

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
Sandoz challenges Ranbaxy's 180-day lock on Nexium copies

Health Canada says particles found in Hospira's paclitaxel vials

Purdue fights to extend OxyContin monopoly

Arena's next challenge: Build up Belviq sales

With individual mandate upheld, pharma gets its new patients

FiercePharma Manufacturing
AMAG closing plant, moving to contract manufacturing

Drugs mislabeled after Shamrock ignored FDA

Merck closing Cherokee fermentation operations

Daiichi Sankyo opens first U.S. manufacturing plant

Stryker closing 2 Gaymar plants to cut costs

FierceVaccines
Sanofi's Hexaxim vax gets EMA thumbs up

Cuban hepatitis B vax cuts disease

BioDiem steps closer to a dengue vaccine

Swine flu shots a success for Scotland

Texas researchers improve Rift Valley vaccine

Health News - BizJournals.com
Clayton McWhorter on profiting from health reform

Denied at Supreme Court, health reform opponents turn attention to election

Virginia politicians, leaders react to health care ruling

St. Louis execs react to Supreme Court health-care ruling

Top of the List: Central Ohio's largest assisted-living facilities

Health News - CNBC
TIMELINE-Chronology of Obama healthcare law legal battle

Snap Analysis: The long arm of the U.S. healthcare ruling

Sector Snap: Diagnostic lab operators rise

Hospital shares up on health ruling, insurers down

Health Care Decision & Your Money

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
Biosimilars Streamlining Survives in Supreme Court

FDA Bill Sails Through Senate

Harrington Project Establishes BioMotiv Commercialization Arm

GenesisCare Announces Investment by KKR

Sartorius Opens Facility in Puerto Rico

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
American Diabetes Association Applauds the U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Uphold the Affordable Care Act

The Mi-Forms iPad & Android Apps Offer Robust Mobile-Forms to the Enterprise

Investigational Cis-urocanic Acid Eye Drops for Dry Eye Syndrome Well Tolerated, in Phase 1 Clinical Study

Hydromer, Inc. Enters Into a Strategic Development Agreement With N8 Medical Inc. for a New Class of Antimicrobial Coatings

Genelux Corporation Announces Ground-Breaking Clinical Study Evaluating Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus in Canine Cancer Patients

MassBio News
Breaking: Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act

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

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Mitch Rothschild, Vitals' CEO, Comments On Supreme Court's Healthcare Ruling

Nouveau Life Pharmaceuticals (NOUV) Provides Update and Details for Affiliate Sales Program

Market response to Kallo technology

Catholic Health Association Pleased With Supreme Court Ruling On Affordable Care Act

Prime Therapeutics comments on Supreme Court ruling on healthcare reform law

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
Diet Drug Gains F.D.A. Endorsement

F.D.A. Delays Action on Eliquis From Pfizer and Bristol-Myers

Combating Acid Reflux May Bring Host of Ills

Roche to Shut Down Former U.S. Headquarters, After 83 Years

Prescription Drug to Aid Weight Loss Wins F.D.A. Backing

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: Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis - 2012 Report Offers A Large Online Study Amongst Over 2,000 Patients

Riassunto: Dati definitivi ottenuti da studio di combinazione di fase 2 di VX-809 e KALYDECO (ivacaftor) indicano miglioramenti statisticamente rilevanti nella funzione polmonare in persone affette da fibrosi cistica con due copie della mutazione F508del

Sucampo Appoints Silvia Taylor, MBA, as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Public Relations, and Corporate Communications

Samenvatting: Definitieve data van fase 2 studie VX-809 and KALYDECO tonen verbetering in longfunctie bij mensen met Cystic Fibrosis

Resumen: Los datos finales del estudio de fase 2 del tratamiento combinado de VX-809 y KALYDECO TM (ivacaftor) han revelado mejoras estadísticamente significativas en la función pulmonar de los pacientes con fibrosis quística con dos copias de la mutación F508del

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
GHX CEO Bruce Johnson Responds to Healthcare Reform Decision

Statement Of Mental Health America On Supreme Court's Decision Upholding Affordable Care Act

AAHC Urges Continued Commitment to Comprehensive Health Policy

Hazelden Applauds Health Care Ruling

Supreme Court Ruling is a Major Blow to Entrepreneurship, Small Business Owners

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Lilly Statement on Affordable Care Act Ruling by Supreme Court

Pricing and Reimbursement in Russia - Big Pharma Take Advantage of Reimbursement for Costly Drugs Through the DLO's Seven Nosologies Program

Marshall Edwards Announces Name Change to MEI Pharma ("MEIP")

Demand for Product Pipeline Review and Analysis Rises in the Global Pharma Industry

BioDelivery Sciences Announces Positive Results from BEMA Buprenorphine/Naloxone (BNX) Pharmacokinetic Study

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
World Biomass Pellet Market Examined in New GlobalData Report Now...

Pittcon 2013 Announces Call for Topics for Conferee Networking...

The Human Genome Is Displayed in the Dimension of Time in Web-Based...

Media Advisory: Explore Leading-edge Forensic DNA Technologies and...

Genomind to Participate in National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Medical Cannabis Resource Site Doobons.com Helps the Cash Hyde...

California Healthcare Institute Issues Statement on Supreme Court...

Verizon's mobile data price increase confirms need for proactive TEM /...

First Advantage Litigation Consulting Enhances Global RPM Document...

Pharmica Consulting Reports from HIMSS Conference

Scientific American
Health Act Intact: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care

North Carolina Sea Level Rises Despite Senators

Dinosaurs Might Have Had Warm-Blooded Animals' Fast Metabolism

Supernova Could Have Caused Mysterious 'Red Crucifix' in Sky in 774 A.D.

Anticlotting Compounds Shown to Protect Mice from Radiation Poisoning

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Ex-NBA, Cincy forward Cummings found dead

NC State: Brown's surgery 'temporary setback'

Providence recruit Dunn may miss five months

MSU-UConn to open Nov. 9 in Germany

Brennan: Projecting NBA draft lottery based on NCAA production

Sports News - ESPN
Ex-Notre Dame coach pleads guilty in standoff

FSU RB agrees to spend 3 more days in jail

Rose Bowl to remain on ESPN through 2026

Texas' Brown hoping playoff reignites stipend

Irish AD: Playoff panel should emphasize SOS

Xconomy Life Sciences
Omeros Pockets $28M in Stock Sale

After Big Oops, Vertex Plows Ahead With Cystic Fibrosis Drug Combo

Corporate VC Investing Drops in Q1, Mobile Funding Poised to Jump

Qualcomm Steps into the Sun with Focus on Mobile OS Development

Arena Shares Boom on FDA Approval of Obesity Drug

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)