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Amgen Inc said on Monday its experimental new type of cholesterol fighter met the primary goal of a late-stage trial by significantly cutting "bad" LDL cholesterol among patients with a genetic tendency towards very high levels of the artery clogging fat.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says a medical imaging company will pay $6.2 million to settle claims it failed to pay corporate taxes to New York City and the state.

The National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff has collaborated with charitable foundation the Wellcome Trust and music photographer Neil "Twink" Tinning on a series of documentaries about mental health issues Last Chance Saloon, follows Twink, formerly the official photographer for The Jam, as he embarks on a year-long journey to understand ... (more)

Margaret Campbell Haynes of Charlotte, N.C. and William James Haynes II of New York, N.Y. announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Insley Haynes of San Francisco, Calif., to David Thomas Warren Jr. of San Francisco, Calif., son of David and Sally Warren of Hilton Head Island, S.C. Ms.

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Kymab, a monoclonal antibody biopharmaceutical company founded on research from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, announced today the publication in Nature Scientists at Kymab have engineered a mouse with the full set of genes encoding the human antibody repertoire, calling this new technology Kymouse.

The report was released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The company manages its operations through five segments: Primary Care, Specialty Care and Oncology, Established Products and Emerging Markets, Animal Health and Consumer Healthcare, and Nutrition.

For a decade, Bob Chikos remained loyal to one toothpaste: Rembrandt's Gentle White.

What is Amitabh Bachchan concerned about? The ailing elephant Bijlee. He has appealed to animal lovers to rescue the tusker who had collapsed near Wockhardt Hospital in Mulund last week.

There is no evidence that GM crops are more dangerous than conventionally farmed food, a group of scientists allegedly linked to the biotech industry have advised UK PM David Cameron.

With its elegant aroma and especially its reparative and protective properties, Orchid flowers are ideal materials for developing cosmetics, revealed National Cheng Kung University Research Center of Orchid whose research results have extended to Lan-Hui Biotech.

Patch Staff Report The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 's mobile application delivers up-to-the-minute health information at your fingertips whenever you need it.

Medical device maker Hologic Inc appointed a former Johnson & Johnson executive as chief operating officer, three months after naming a new chief executive and striking a deal with activist investor Carl Icahn.

An experimental Amgen Inc cancer vaccine used to treat advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, proved effective in a late-stage study in shrinking tumors in a way that suggests the drug triggered the intended systemic immune response, according to data presented on Friday.

Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved NOXAFIL injection , a new formulation of NOXAFIL for intravenous use.

Schneiderman says Friday that Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. and its former parent company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, allegedly did not pay state business franchise taxes, New York City corporation taxes or MTA surcharges from 2002 to 2006.

Giving companies like Nuclea Biotechnologies seed money to grow is exactly how Gov. Deval Patrick believes he is "intentionally" creating jobs in the life science field.

Dyax Corp. today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 8,000,000 shares of its common stock, offered at a price to the public of $9.25 per share.

A computer-aided design tool has been developed to create genetic languages to guide the design of biological systems.