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2. Laupheimer Zelltage Attracts Top Scientists to Discuss Recent Advances in Biomanufacturing

Antisense Pharma Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Trabedersen to Treat Malignant Melanoma

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Recognized as Innovations Honoree for FlexMoSys

New Campaign for Rentschler's 'Facility of the Year'

Berthold Awards Marlene DeLuca Prices

BioSpace
Discovery of New White Blood Cell Reveals Target for Better Vaccine Design, Study

Abbott Laboratories's HUMIRA® Approved in Europe for Treatment of Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA)

Horizon Pharma, Inc. Drops as Investors Doubt Company's Marketing; Stock Down - 0.5325(8.44%) @ 10:06AM EDT

Talon Therapeutics, Inc.'s Flower-Powered Cancer Drug Driving Talks, CEO Says

High-Carb Diet Tied to Breast Cancer Risk for Some, International Agency for Research on Cancer Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Earns $3.2 Million Milestone Payment From GlaxoSmithKline in VaxiRNA Collaboration on Flu Vaccine Production

Endovascular Therapy May Result in Significantly Better Outcomes Than Current Standard Treatment for Deadliest Strokes, Study

New Published Paper Shows Efficacy of Lpath, Inc.'s Anti-LPA Antibody, Lpathomab, in Spinal Cord Injury Models

Eisai Inc. and Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Complete Transfer of BELVIQ® (lorcaserin HCl) New Drug Application

Merck & Co., Inc. Net Income Declines by 11% to $1,793 Million in Q2

Biotech News - Business Wire
Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Benefit from New Premier Agreements for RFID Asset Tracking and Management Solutions

SORIN GROUP REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2012 RESULTS

SORIN GROUP ANNUNCIA I DATI DEL SECONDO TRIMESTRE 2012

ACT Treats 10th Patient in Embryonic Stem Cell Trials for Macular Degeneration

Supersonic Imagine anuncia la producción de su 500º ecógrafo Aixplorer® en el mundo

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Hyland Software hosts annual user forum for ECM, EMR software

Bio-Solutions Corp Begins Production of the Type2 Defense. Pursuing $25 Billion plus Type II and Pre-Diabetic Marketplace

Oncobiologics, Inc. Announces a Collaboration Agreement with XOMA Corporation to Utilize XOMA's Fully Human Antibody Libraries for Their Discovery Platform

Overcoming Challenges in Amblyopia Detection using Visual Evoked Potential (VEP)

Elsevier/DirectCourse Curriculum Aligns with APSE Certification Process

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
India Preparing to Introduce Price Controls

Amarin Wins FDA Approval of Vascepa

Hyperion Therapeutics Goes Public

Supreme Court Ruling on Healthcare Reform Will Lower Costs

California's Stem Cell Agency Approves $150 Million Grants

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
SalutarisMD Presents Dosimetry Data for Promising Device to Treat Leading Cause of Blindness at AAPM Annual Meeting

Research and Markets: Bronchiectasis Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Research and Markets: Global Genetic Testing Market Forecast to 2015

Research and Markets: Thromboembolism Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Pri-Med's Integrated Approaches to Cardiometabolic Care Conference Demonstrates Strong Demand for Case-Based Learning Between Specialists and Primary Care Teams

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Wake Up Narcolepsy Continues Funding for Advanced Research on Narcolepsy

French Government Agrees to Fund Study of the PneumRx RePneu Lung Volume Reduction Coil

El gobierno francés acuerda costear un estudio del Sistema de Espiral de Reducción del Volumen Pulmonar PneumRx RePneu

Le gouvernement français accepte de financer une étude sur le dispositif de réduction du volume pulmonaire RePneu de PneumRx

Expanded Analysis of HPTN 052 Study Results Show Cost-Effectiveness of Early Treatment of HIV

CNN Top Stories
Q&A with swimmer Cullen Jones

Disney to 'Santa': Tone it down

3,000 miles ... on a skateboard

Rebels seize military base near Aleppo

Fiancee stabbed in front of him

Contract Pharma
NSF International Acquires Becker & Associates Consulting

Quanticate Adds New Leadership

Adhesives Research Appoints Market Manager

Ricerca Launches Preclinical Assays

Onyx Expands Capabilities

FDA Drugs- What's New
Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Riesgo de convulsiones en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple que toman Ampyra (dalfampridine)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Riesgo de convulsiones en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple que toman Ampyra (dalfampridine)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Seizure risk for multiple sclerosis patients who take Ampyra (dalfampridine)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva información sobre la prolongación del intervalo QT con ondansetrón (Zofran)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva información sobre la prolongación del intervalo QT con ondansetrón (Zofran)

FDA News - Business Wire
EXTENSION Reports Continued Growth in Second Quarter 2012

Proteus Digital Health anuncia aprobación de la FDA de su sensor ingerible

Proteus Digital Health annuncia lautorizzazione della FDA alla commercializzazione del proprio sensore ingeribile

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Nationwide Availability of ZETONNA (ciclesonide) Nasal Aerosol for Allergic Rhinitis

Covidien Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of the Nellcor Bedside SpO2 Patient Monitoring System

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves Tudorza Pressair to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

FDA: More than 150 antiretroviral drugs available through PEPFAR for worldwide HIV/AIDS relief

FDA warns consumers not to eat shellfish from Oyster Bay Harbor, Nassau County, NY

FDA approves Afinitor for advanced breast cancer

FDA approves Kyprolis for some patients with multiple myeloma

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Cord Blood Banking - Information for Consumers

Package Insert - Twinrix

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

FierceBiotech
What turnaround Fitch dashes hopes on drug approval trend

Acura Pharma shares blitzed after Pfizer dumps three partnered programs

Merck Serono launches first biotech spinout from Geneva wreckage

Wall Street oddsmakers betting heavily against Lilly's solanezumab

Shire's CEO, business model win accolades

FierceBiotech IT
Models shed light on cocaine-curbing enzymes

AZ's R&D information chief eyes improved trial success

AstraZeneca taps Amazon-like service for outsourcing research

Illumina seeks cut of bioinformatics biz with cloud system

Complete Genomics, Ingenuity combine forces to understand genomes

FierceBiotech Research
New eye injection drug helped blind mice see (for a while)

Yale team develops drug-targeting method for once-untouchable proteins

Cancer gene found to propel metastasis of breast cancer stem cells

Novel class of Alzheimer's drugs looks promising in animals

A handful of genetic mutations drive acute leukemia transformation

FiercePharma
Shire CEO sees consumer-goods strategies in pharma's future

Pay-for-delay deals could be upended by the Supreme Court

Europeans notch approvals for Vertex, Novartis drugs

Icahn wins a peek at some Forest Labs records

EU OKs Vertex cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco

FiercePharma Manufacturing
EU counterfeit drug seizures surge; most fakes from China

Production jobs to be hot for next 5 years

California county orders drugmakers to pay for drug disposal

Sun Pharma standardizing manufacturing globally

FDA to Congress: Agency can't dodge plant problems to avoid shortages

FierceVaccines
In U.K., Sanofi Pasteur's Pneumovax trumps Pfizer's Prevnar 13

FDA wags finger at Sanofi for no-nos at vaccine plants

GE, iBio unite on plant-based production of vaccines and biologics

Sanofi vaccine combats most viral causes of dengue

Vaxil BioTherapeutics debuts on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Health News - BizJournals.com
Charges won't be filed against protesters

Village lands federal funding to buy two ambulances

L Street by Sutter open after a year

Alnylam nabs $3.2M milestone payment from Glaxo

Medical College to offer genetic testing

Health News - CNBC
A Tale of Two Middle Markets

Osiris Therapeutics takes 2Q loss as payments fall

Arena transfers diet pill application to Eisai

MWI Veterinary shares rise on strong 3Q, guidance

China to Launch Key Projects, Spur Private Investment

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
Merck Serono Begins Job Creation Process

Vertex Cystic Fibrosis Drug Wins European Approval

Vertex CF Drug Wins European Approval

BMS Awards Grants Focused on Combatting HBV and HCV in China and India

Life Science Tool Providers Boast Impressive Sales

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
CFA Commentary on Sunshine Biopharma, Inc. (OTCBB: SBFM)

BIOLASE Conference Call: 2012 Second Quarter, Six-Month Results

Immunovative, Inc. Announces Launch of Website and Newsletter: ImmuNews

Medifocus, Inc. Obtains Newly Allowed Patent and an Extensive Intellectual Property Portfolio as Part of the Recently Announced Asset Purchase With Boston Scientific Covering Prolieve(R) for the Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

Anita Borg Institute Opens Call for Applications for 2013 Top Company for Technical Women Award

MassBio News
State, Local and Industry Officials Join KeraFAST to Open New Headquarters in Boston, MA

MLSC 2012 Capital Program Announcement

2012 Tax Incentive Program Announcement

Q&A With Jonathan Thomas

Policy Update

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Verathon, maker of GlideScope video laryngoscopes, provides free educational DVD to promote best practices in pediatric airway management.

CVS/pharmacy and MinuteClinic Launch Flu Shot Voucher Program for Patients in Need This Flu Season

Sensus Healthcare Announces an Alliance with Mission Search Corporation to provide Commissioning Services for the Sensus SRT-100

Cardiocom Says Bosch Patent Infringement Allegations Are Baseless

CVS/pharmacy's "Project Health" Bringing Free Health Screenings to 10 Cities During August

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GenBank Submission Tools Announcements

GTR News

GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

Nature Biotechnology
Incorporating biomarkers into clinical trial designs: points to consider

TAL effector RVD specificities and efficiencies

Gene therapy matures in the clinic

From academic solos to industrial symphonies

Reading cancer's blueprint

New York Times- Biotechnology
Novel Blood Treatment Lures Athletes in Pain to Germany

Athletes With Chronic Pain Turn to Novel Blood Treatment

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Imagine a World Without AIDS

Helping Patients in Need

The Long, Uphill Battle Against AIDS

Baldness Battle, Fought in the Follicle

For Big Drug Companies, a Headache Looms

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: Nigeria Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q3 2012

XenoPort to Release Second Quarter Financial Results on August 7, 2012

Illinois and Georgia Bio Organizations Join AdvaMed's State Medical Technology Alliance

Research and Markets: Sciatic Pain - Pipeline Review, H1 2012

Research and Markets: Fabry Disease - Pipeline Review, H1 2012

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
150 MORE SCIENTISTS FOR LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE

Aflac Incorporated to Webcast, Live, at RetailInvestorConferences.com on August 2nd

Metabolix Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

Kam Aims Uses Cloud Technology to Bring Affordable Solution to Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Net Medical Xpress Announces Major Expansion and Upgrade for Growing Hospital Market

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Alternate Distribution Channels Claim Opportunities for OTC Drug Sales in the United States, Finds Kline

Radiation Control Technologies, Inc. Announces Exclusive License to Two Patents from the National Institutes of Health

Watson Confirms Epiduo® Gel Patent Challenge

Watson Confirms Xopenox HFA® Patent Challenge

Depomed To Report Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Results On Thursday, August 2, 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
OPM Acquires Optical Inspection Technology Rights from the Connecticut...

Cambridge Healthtech Associates(TM) Announces Results of Survey on...

DoseMonitor® 2.0 from PHS Technologies Group to be Unveiled at...

RURO Introduces Version 5.3 of FreezerPro Software

New Compact Piezo Scanner Can Improve Infrared Camera Resolution by...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Blue Sky Drugs Releases Tips for Summer Health and Medication Safety

Unmet Animal Health Needs and the Need to Ensure Sustainable Food...

Delta Care Rx Comments on New Article Issued by the Inspector-General...

Clinical Trial Options for Competitive Businesses

LabAnswer Receives Prime Award for CIO-SP3 Contract

Scientific American
Storms May Speed Ozone Loss Above the U.S.

Can Bacteria Fight Brain Cancer

Early HIV Treatment Might Save Livelihoods as Well as Lives

Tropical Parks Fail to Protect Animals and Plants [Slide Show]

Social Scientists Might Gain Access to Facebook's Data on User Behavior

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Iona recruit Haynes shot and killed in Chicago

Ex-Hoosier Reed, figure in Knight's firing, dies

Villanova, Purdue in 2K Sports Classic semis

Semifinals set for Legends Classic in Brooklyn

Tar Heels to tip off in Maui vs. Mississippi State

Sports News - ESPN
Penn State plants trees at Paterno statue site

Malzahn dismisses tailback Dyer from Ark. St.

Source: Penn St. junior QB Bolden visits LSU

Iowa RB Johnson suspended after 2nd incident

Penn St. considering changes to plain uniforms

Xconomy Life Sciences
A Lonely Voice Asking Tough Questions on Cancer Cost-Effectiveness

Vertex Wins EU Approval for Cystic Fibrosis Drug

Siluria Attracts Paul Allen, Gets $30M to Turn Natural Gas Into Chemicals, Fuels

Lantos Raises $3.8M to Push 3D Ear Scanner Closer to Market

Allan Jones, the Force Behind Paul Allen's Vision for Brain Science

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)