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3 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Pfizer Broke Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses: Video

Nov. 9 -- Pfizer Inc. has paid some of the largest fines in the industry after promising to stop marketing drugs for off-label uses in 2004.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Video, Business News

7 hrs ago | The Straits Times

GSK to give 50m H1N1 vaccines

BRITISH pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said on Tuesday it will donate 50 million doses of its H1N1 flu vaccine to the World Health Organisation to distribute to developing countries.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Influenza

11 hrs ago | Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Bristol-Myers signs development deal with Alder

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Alder Biopharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday they signed a collaboration deal potentially worth $1 billion, with a key focus on a rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

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Related Topix: Bristol Myers Squibb, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthritis, Health

15 hrs ago | Salon.com

FDA extends review of XenoPort-Glaxo pain drug

The Food and Drug Administration needs three more months to review an application to a neuropathic pain drug being developed by XenoPort Inc.

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Related Topix: Startups, XenoPort, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthcare Industry

Mon Nov 09, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Angiotech narrows third-quarter loss

Vancouver - Published on Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 8:59AM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Central Jersey

Bridgewater-based Enzon Pharmaceuticals enters into $300 million deal

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced Monday that it intends to sell its specialty pharmaceutical business to the sigma-tau Group for more than $300 million.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro

ClipSyndicate

Glassman Sees `Fine Line' for Off-Label Drug Marketing: Video

Nov. 9 -- Robert Glassman, private equity partner at OrbiMed Advisors, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker and Deirdre Bolton about the practice of so-called off-label drug marketing and its impact on the industry.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Business News, Video

KCBY-TV Coos Bay

Pfizer trimming research plants after buying Wyeth

Pfizer trimming research plants after buying Wyeth NEW YORK - The world's biggest drugmaker is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing others, and cutting the jobs of roughly 15 percent of its scientists and support staff.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Medical News Today

Significantly More Smokers With Mild-To-Moderate COPD Quit...

Significantly More Smokers With Mild-To-Moderate COPD Quit Smoking Using CHANTIX/CHAMPIX Compared With Placebo Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma ; COPD Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 13:00 PST New study results showed that 42.3 percent of smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, UC Los Angeles, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication, Pfizer, Healthcare Industry

MediLexicon

Antigenics Provides Details On GlaxoSmithKline's Pivotal Malaria Vaccine Trial With QS-21 Adjuvant

Antigenics, Inc. today indicated that GlaxoSmithKline's Phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial, containing Antigenics' QS-21 Stimulon adjuvant, has enrolled more than 5,000 children to date and is expected to involve up to 16,000 children.

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Related Topix: Antigenics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Malaria, Health, GlaxoSmithKline

Sun Nov 08, 2009

CBS 13

Trains Kill Two In Bay Area

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro, Medicine, A.P. Pharma, Healthcare Industry, Redwood City, CA

Medical News

Positive interim data from the multicenter randomized Phase II trial of palifosfamide presented

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. presented today at the 15th Annual Connective Tissue Oncology Society Meeting, positive interim data from the multicenter randomized Phase II trial of palifosfamide treating patients with unresectable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, ZIOPHARM Oncology, Oncology, Medicine, Startups, Zio, Sarcoma, Health, Doxorubicin (generic), Adriamycin, Doxil, Medication

Medical News Today

Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Collaborators Present Positive Phase II...

Main Category: Lung Cancer Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Conferences ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 07 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Oncolytics Biotech Inc.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, San Antonio Metro, Health

Pharmaceutical Processing

FDA Approves Labeling Update for REYATAZ Capsules

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced that the FDA has approved a labeling update for REYATAZ A to include long-term data from the CASTLE Study.

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Related Topix: Reyataz, Atazanavir Sulfate (generic), Bristol Myers Squibb, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Norvir, Ritonavir (generic)

The Globe and Mail

Wall Street insider trading probe widens

Wall Street insider trading probe widens An unidentified suspect charged with fraud and conspiracy in the Galleon Group insider trading scandal arrives at Manhattan Federal Court in FBI custody on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Services, McKenna, WA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Axcan Pharma

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Incyte's 3rd-quarter loss narrows on lower costs following pipeline prioritization move

Biotechnology company Incyte Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter loss narrowed on lower costs as it prioritized is pipeline of potential products.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Incyte, Healthcare Industry

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Bloomberg Business News

Worker Productivity in U.S. Increases 9.5%, the Fastest Pace in Six Years

The productivity of U.S. workers surged in the third quarter at the fastest pace in six years as companies squeezed more from remaining staff to boost profits.

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Related Topix: Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro

Earth Times

Quintiles Opens Expanded Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Singapore

To meet the growing demand for its services throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Quintiles, the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide, today announced the official grand opening of its expanded regional headquarters facility in Singapore's Science Park I.

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Related Topix: Quintiles Transnational

WAVY-TV Portsmouth

Poll: 33 pct. able to get H1N1 vaccine

Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthcare Industry, Family, Kids

Drug Store News

Nutrition 21 gains license for ProBiomega

PURCHASE,A N.Y. Nutrition 21 on Friday announced that the company has obtained an exclusive license for a patented combination of a probiotic and omega-3 fish oil from ProbioHealth and ProbioFerm.

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Related Topix: Nutrition 21, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

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