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1 hr ago | Reuters

UPDATE 1-Bausch & Lomb's Ista pleads guilty over kickbacks

Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million to settle criminal and civil liability, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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Related Topix: Bausch and Lomb, Medicine, Medical Equipment, US News

4 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

ISTA Pharmaceuticals pleads guilty in NY to promoting drug for unapproved use, will pay $33.5M

Drug-maker ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in New York in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom and has agreed to pay more than $30 million.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Bausch and Lomb, Medical Equipment, Food and Drug Administration

8 hrs ago | C-Health

Prevent diabetes by smoking pot?

Montrealers participated in a march for the legalization of marijuana, Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Montreal.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Marijuana, Smoking, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hospital Administration

10 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Maine hospital, Boston hospital collaborate

LEWISTON, Maine - A Maine hospital group and one of Boston's most prestigious hospitals have announced a collaboration aimed at streamlining services for local cancer patients who need care in Boston.

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Related Topix: Maine, Lewiston, ME, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Hospital Administration

15 hrs ago | Bicester Advertiser

Long wait to set up new NHS watchdog

Healthwatch should have begun representing patients as the Clinical Commissioning Groups took over buying health and social services on April 1. But the body's staff are still not in place and elections to create the group's board are not expected to be completed until the end of July.

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Related Topix: HealthWatch, Medical Equipment, Medicine

19 hrs ago | Asbury Park Press

Majority of Superstorm Sandy deaths were from drowning

The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in... A New Jersey man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his role in a crime that left a... A wall is removed from the house that was washed into the Barnegat Bay from Lyman Avenue in Mantoloking during Superstorm Sandy.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Medicine, Control Group, Queens, NY, New York, NY, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Irene

Thu May 23, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

J&J expects 10-plus new drug applications by 2017

Johnson & Johnson is developing what could eventually be game-changing treatments for depression and pain, and it's aiming to apply for approval of more than 10 new medicines by 2017, executives said Thursday during a review of the health care giant's medicine business.

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Related Topix: Food, J and J Snack Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Advanced Transit Dynamics, VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Startups

Seattle Times

News Summary: J&J predicts surge of new medicines

BIG PLANS: Johnson & Johnson says it's poised by 2017 to seek regulatory approval for a dozen new medicines and two dozen variations of existing ones.

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Related Topix: Food, J and J Snack Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals

ABC 33/40

Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes

Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

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Related Topix: The Descendants, France, World News, Patterson Dental, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Immigration Reform

WCAX-TV Burlington

Latest deadly tornado tests Oklahoma town's mettle

Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Patterson Dental, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Immigration Reform

KTVN Reno

Teen arrested in death of his 2 brothers in Utah

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time... Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after they reported they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether ... (more)

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Utah, Patterson Dental, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Equipment, West Point, UT

WTHR-TV Indianapolis

Body of child found in deadly Minn. landslide

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time... Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after they reported they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether ... (more)

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Related Topix: Landslide, Patterson Dental, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Equipment, St. Paul, MN, St. Louis Park, MN

KSWO

Obama: America at 'crossroads' in terror fight

Authorities in St. Paul say they've recovered the body of a child missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured at a park along the Mississippi River.

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Related Topix: Patterson Dental, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Equipment, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Terrorism, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

TheIndyChannel

Teens arrested in Franklin armed robbery

Police have arrested two teens suspected in an armed robbery at a Johnson County drugstore that prompted police to lockdown Franklin Community Schools on May 16.

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Related Topix: Johnson County, IN, Medicine, Community Health Care, Hospital Administration

Philly.com

J&J forecasts 10 new drug applications by 2017

Johnson & Johnson says it plans to submit more than 10 new treatments to regulators for approval and 25 applications for additional uses of approved drugs by 2017.

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Related Topix: Food, J and J Snack Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, DePuy Orthopaedics, Medical Equipment, Hospital Administration, St Peters Health Care Services

Science, Industry and Business

Rate of bicycle-related fatalities significantly lower in states with helmet laws

Existing research shows that bicyclists who wear helmets have an 88 percent lower risk of brain injury, but researchers at Boston Children's Hospital found that simply having bicycle helmet laws in place showed a 20 percent decrease in deaths and injuries for children younger than 16 who were in bicycle-motor vehicle collisions.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hospital Administration

WKYT

Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is showing a big drop in teen birth rates that some experts say is startling.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Medicine

The Hartford Courant

Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations, Health, Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Merck , MRSA, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals

Wed May 22, 2013

Seattle Times

Pfizer plans offering to pare Zoetis stake

Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. plans to try to sell its controlling stake in its former animal health business, Zoetis Inc., through a voluntary stock exchange with Pfizer shareholders.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Financial Markets, Life, Food, Nutrition, Madison, NJ

Science Daily

Phthalates -- chemicals widely found in plastics and processed food...

Once perceived as harmless, phthalates have come under increasing scrutiny. A growing collection of evidence suggests dietary exposure to phthalates may cause significant metabolic and hormonal abnormalities, especially during early development.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicine, University of Washington

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