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b3c newswire
ZZ Biotech Initiates Phase 1 Study with 3K3A-APC for the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

AiCuris Promising Drugs Against Herpes Simplex (AIC316) and Human Cytomegalovirus (Letermovir, ...

CEVEC Licenses its Proprietary Human Cell Lines to Paragon Bioservices, Inc.

Cambridge Research Biochemicals Signs Deal with LI-COR Biosciences for Infrared Dye Labelled ...

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

BioSpace
Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Gets FDA Approval for Generic Diabetes Med

Smoking in Pregnancy Increases Asthma Risk in Preschool, Karolinska Institute Study

Metabolic Protein Wields Phosphate Group to Activate Cancer-Promoting Genes, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Study

Small Generic Drugmakers Like IMPAX Laboratories, Inc., Hi-Tech Pharmacal Seek Niches

Pan-Fried Meat Ups Prostate Cancer Risk, University of Southern California and Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
DPT Laboratories, Ltd. to Supply Imprimis Pharmaceuticals With Clinical Supplies of Topical Anti-Inflammatory Drug

VIVUS, Inc. Tumbles on Concerns About Generic Qsymia

FDA Grants Approval for Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Suboxone Sublingual Film

Tigermed Completes $80 Million IPO on the Exchange

Geron Corporation Gains on Report Touting Experimental Cancer Drugs

Biotech News - Business Wire
LabCorp Announces Proposed Sale of Senior Notes

IntegenX Launches First RapidHIT Human DNA Identification System in Europe

PerkinElmer Releases Newest Version of Flagship Informatics Product: ChemBioOffice® Ultra 13.0 Suite

CleanMed 2014 Conference and Exposition Coming to Cleveland

Research and Markets: Iterative Learning Control Algorithms and Experimental Benchmarking

Biotech News - PR Newswire
UBM Announces Partnership Agreement With Trade Organisation - SIPPO

InspireMD Announces Positive Results From MGuard(TM) Stent MASTER Trial for Emergency Treatment of Heart Attack Patients

Regulus Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

Antares Vision and Xyntek Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership for E-pedigree and Serialization Turn-Key Solution Delivery

Medbox, Inc. Releases 2nd Quarter Financials

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
Elan to Shed Drug Discovery Unit

RNA Therapeutics in the Dealmaking Spotlight

Pfizer's Animal Health Unit Zoetis Files IPO

Inching Closer to a Pill for Men

Whistleblower Sues Genentech

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: An Introduction to Statistics in Early Phase Trials

OneHealth Announces New Clinical Advisory Group

Excelsior Medical Announces Issuance of Second U.S. Patent on SwabFlush

Origin Healthcare Solutions Adds Two Senior Executives to Leadership Team

Research and Markets: Leiomyosarcoma Global Clinical Trials Review, H2, 2012

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
InSightec Receives FDA Approval to Begin Phase I Parkinson's Trial

Juventas Therapeutics doses first patient in Phase II STOP-HF trial

Shedding Light on a Hidden Epidemic - AASLD Endorses the Centers for Disease Control's Plan to Identify Those Infected with Hepatitis C Virus

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Awards Grant to Continue Development of Computational Tools for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery

Kuoni Announces Participants in the Holiday Health Experiment

CNN Top Stories
Rape comment puts abortion issue front and center

Opinion: Why Ryan is not bad for women

Nyad 'feeling strong' in 103-mile swim

Kids chasing ball go on wild ride

Violence-hit mine 'stable, but tense'

Contract Pharma
United Drug to Acquire Bilcare GCS

Antares Vision, Xyntek in E-pedigree and Serialization Pact

DPT Labs, Imprimis in Clinical Supply Pact

INC Research Names CEO, COO

ChanTest Appoints Commercial Officer

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Codeine use in certain children after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy may lead to rare, but life-threatening adverse events or death

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)

FDA News - Business Wire
STAR Total Ankle Replacement to Be Featured on CNBC and Bloomberg International Network

AHF Asks State Health Departments & AIDS Directors, Private Insurers to Place Gilead's New Quad Pill on Prior Authorization Status

BioTime and OncoCyte Corporation Publish Data on the Gene COL10A1 as a Marker and Potential Diagnostic for a Wide Array of Human Cancers

Pharmalucence Announces FDA Approval and Orphan Drug Designation for Use of Sulfur Colloid Injection to Locate Lymph Nodes in Malignant Melanoma Patients

CryoPen Unveils Revolutionary New Cervical Cancer Treatment

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves first generic Actos to treat type 2 diabetes

FDA recommends X-ray or other imaging on implanted heart defibrillators with St. Jude Medical Riata leads to help guide treatment

FDA warns of risk of death from codeine use in some children following surgeries

FDA approves vaccines for the 2012-2013 influenza season

FDA approves vaccine formulation for the 2012-2013 influenza season

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Extension of Expiration Date for Black Widow Spider Antivenin Lot 0667018 (in packaged lot 0585Z) until February 12, 2013 And Instructions for Diluent Use

Black Widow Spider Antivenin (Latrodectus mactans)(Equine) Packaged Lot 0585Z: Information about Expiration Date and Use

Cord Blood Banking - Information for Consumers

Package Insert - Twinrix

Direct Recall Classification Program

FierceBiotech
FDA calendar crowded with blockbuster decisions for Ironwood, Pfizer and Sanofi

New lab organs promise faster, cheaper, better drug development

Regulus Therapeutics files for $58M IPO

Geron generates spark from cancer pipeline

Gene patent ruling seen as win for Myriad, biotech industry

FierceBiotech IT
DNA data-crunching contest draws Sanofi, NIH, others

10 Big Pharma smartphone apps

Lilly's 'big data' ally finds new Indy digs for IT workers

IMS bags planning tech for clinical trials with TTC buyout

Big data analytics bolsters hunt for elusive Huntington's drugs

FierceBiotech Research
Dana-Farber, Broad Institute identify CYCLOPS gene class in cancer fight

Cephalon cancer drug, in combo therapy, kills multiple myeloma cells in mice

Regulus, AstraZeneca team up in microRNA preclinical partnership

Prosthetic retina restores partial sight to blind mice

Gene offers tantalizing leukemia target

FiercePharma
Predictions for emerging markets hit new realities

Company convicted in gray market distribution scheme

China significantly ratchets back drugs on 'essential drugs' list

India's per-capita pricing proposal could ripple through emerging markets

Roche runs short on Boniva after overestimating generic erosion

FiercePharma Manufacturing
It is overfilled pain drug in latest Hospira recall

Roche overestimated generic impact on Boniva demand

GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca support API variation research

Claris closeout letter ends product ban tied to contamination

West-Ward plant problems undermine Hikma earnings

FierceVaccines
Merck's Gardasil the HPV vax of choice in Scotland

Heart disease vaccine steps closer

Antigen Discovery receives $2.5M grant for malaria vax

Feds cut ebola vax funding

FDA approves 6 flu vaccines

Health News - BizJournals.com
$1.1B purchase of M*Modal completed

The Funded: Reviva Pharmaceuticals, Archimedes Labs, Apixio

Aetna buying Coventry to tap increase in Medicare, Medicaid customers

Executive Profile - Graham Gardner

Kindred buying Texas based home-health, hospice company

Health News - CNBC
Medical Merger Monday

Planned Parenthood launches new U.S. breast health initiative

Small Business Needs Capital, Opportunities: Titans' McNair

New coupons aim to keep people off generic drugs

Assessing Ryan's Policy Proposals

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
Convergence CT Deploys Advanced Clinical Data Warehouse at Advocate Health Care

It's Tool Time for VCs

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Invests $11.9 Million in NARSAD Grants for a New Generation of Mental Health Research

AstraZeneca Partners on miRNA Inhibitors

Firms Flock to Epic's CTC Platform

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
SCYNEXIS to Present on Screening Technology Used in Anti-Malarial Research at ACS National Meeting

CardioComm Solutions Selected to Provide Remote ECG Services for Canadian Based AIM Health Group

Non-Profit Healthcare Advocacy Organizations Join Home Medical Equipment Industry at Medtrade

Nue Science Responds to "Organ Chip" Testing, New Alternative to Animal Testing

Fina Biosolutions Licenses Rights to Its Vaccine Conjugation Technology for Development and Manufacturing of PNEUMOCOCCAL Vaccines in China to Chengdu Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd

MassBio News
GNS Healthcare And CHDI Foundation Collaborate To Build Computer Model Of Huntington's Disease

Stericycle Hosting Four FREE DOT Hazmat Trainings for MassBio Members Via Webex

Stericycle Adds SteriSafe for MassBio Members

FierceBiotech will announce 2012 "Fierce 15" at BioPharm America in September

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

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
UTHealth Receives FDA Approval To Market New Coronary Flow Reserve Quantification Software

Pennsylvania Department of Health Presents Nearly $3.5 Million in Health Research Grants

PRMA and ProMed Alliance Meet with US HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Summer Is the Best Time for Injectable Treatments

Sports Reaction Center Continues to Make Significant Impact in Concussion Management

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
Reply to In support of the European Union biosimilar framework

In support of the European Union biosimilar framework

It's the problem, stupid!

Adult stem cell therapies walk the line

Biotech weathers 2Q12 slump

New York Times- Biotechnology
Court Reaffirms Right of Myriad Genetics to Patent Genes

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Get Antibiotics Off the Farm

Amgen, Citing Weak Results, Halts Study of a Cancer Drug

Pfizer Animal Health Unit Files for I.P.O.

Beware the Nocebo Effect

Amgen, Citing Weak Results, Halts Study of Pancreatic Cancer Drug

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: Epidemiology: Social Anxiety Disorder - Highly co-morbid anxiety disorder will continue to remain a significant public health burden

Research and Markets: Emerging Pharmaceutical Markets in the Middle East to 2017

Research and Markets: Pharmaceutical Diversification Trends 2012

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland Selects ChartLogic EHR

Research and Markets: Essential Thrombocythemia - Pipeline Review, H2 2012

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
VHL Family Alliance Launches New Website

LabCorp Commends CDC for Revised HCV Testing Guidelines; Leading HCV Tests Available Through Monogram Biosciences, part of LabCorp's Specialty Testing Group

Texas Dentists Provide Free Dental Care to Community Members in Need

Virginia College in Jackson Nursing Program Receives Full Accreditation

Real World Data and Health Outcomes

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Indegene présente TrialPedia 2.0 avec « Advantage Insights », la plate-forme d'analyse d'études cliniques et d'aide à la décision la plus complète pour l'industrie pharmaceutique

Indegene stellt TrialPedia 2.0 mit "Advantage Insights" vor und wird damit zur umfassendsten Plattform für klinische Studienanalytik und Entscheidungsfindung in der Pharmaindustrie

Indegene Introduces TrialPedia 2.0 with 'Advantage Insights', Making It the Most Comprehensive Clinical Trial Analytics and Decision Support Platform for the Pharma Industry

Sae-A Trading Sponsors Medical Mission to Haiti

Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces FDA Approval of Two New Dosage Strengths of Suboxone® Sublingual Film (C-III) for Maintenance Treatment of Opioid Dependence

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
Genomind Announces New Scientific Advisory Board Member

Neurodynamics Flow: Learn Faster, Perform Better, and Think Smarter...

German Company Introduces Advanced Gray Scale Nano Lithography System

Enviro-Equipment Inc. Awarded Exclusive Contract to Manufacture...

Shipping Off: Molderizer Treats Customers With Non-Toxic Mold...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
PAINWeek to Feature In-Depth Examination of Pain from Diabetes

Rx relief® Receives Joint Commission Certification

Dr. Jeffery J. Twidwell, M.D. Becomes An InTone Specialist

Rottenstein Law Group Looks Forward to First DePuy Pinnacle Trial

Infotrieve Extends Mobile Library Capabilities for Clients and their...

Scientific American
First Evidence Found for Photosynthesis in Insects

Synthetic Biology Book Published in DNA

E. Coli Strain Linked to Cancer in Mice

First Practical Maser (Microwave Laser) Is Built

Cancer-Fighting Compound Might Double as Reversible Male Contraceptive

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Ex-ISU F Godfrey not joining LSU as planned

Seton Hall PG recruit Carr arrested, report says

Coaches group files brief with Supreme Court

E. Michigan's Murphy staying, says no to Magic

Northwestern's 7-2 center Ajou ruled eligible

Sports News - ESPN
Rutgers names Nova as starting QB over Dodd

Wisconsin tabs transfer O'Brien as starting QB

Texas WR Hales shifts to new role on team

ND product Samardzija critical of new uniforms

Florida holds 'sluggish' practice open to fans

Xconomy Life Sciences
Alzheimer's R&D Isnt Doomed, it's Learning From Failure

IPOs, Biogen, Northeastern, & More From the Boston Life Sciences Roundup

San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Regulus, MEI Pharma, Qualcomm & More

IDRI, Medicago To Test Self-Injectable Pandemic Flu Vaccine

Raising the Bar for Neuroscience in the Northwest

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)