Abbott Laboratories News

Abbott Park, Illinois - Abbott's Ibis technology for detecting and characterizing a vast array of microorganisms has been named one of the top innovations in 2009 by The Scientist magazine.

Abbott Laboratories ' experimental dissolvable heart stent effectively treated heart disease and absorbed into the walls of patients' arteries with no clots reported after three years, paving the way for broader studies of the next-generation device by year-end, the company said.

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Abbott Laboratories said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. won't sell the 145-milligram version of Abbott's TriCor cholesterol-lowering drug until at least 2011 under a patent-infringement lawsuit settlement.

In the decade that Miles White has headed Abbott Laboratories , the healthcare and pharmaceuticals giant has done more than $30 billion worth of deals, greatly expanding its offering of drugs, nutritional products, medical devices and diagnostic equipment.

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"The analysis of these data is ongoing and FDA is making no conclusions about the preliminary findings at this time," the agency said in a statement.

Abbott Laboratories announced on Monday positive results of cholesterol drug Niaspan.

A finding that Merck & Co.a s cholesterol pills Vytorin and Zetia didna t reopen clogged arteries as well as Abbott Laboratories a Niaspan has set off a medical debate on heart treatment strategies.

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Abbott Laboratories this morning confirmed the company's sales and marketing practices of Depakote, the widely used drug to treat bipolar disorder and epilepsy, are under federal investigation.

Abbott Laboratories failed to convince a federal judge to throw out a record $1.67 billion verdict won by Johnson & Johnsona s Centocor unit in a suit over an arthritis drug patent.

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In 2001, Lillie Greene's life was turned upside down. Her son, not knowing he was diabetic, suffered an aneurysm and went into a coma for 32 days.

Abbott Park, Illinois - Abbott announced today that it has received the annual Illinois Continuous Improvement Award for environmental excellence.

Impax Laboratories, Inc. today confirms that it has initiated a challenge of the patents listed by Abbott Laboratories in connection with its TRICORA tablets, 48 mg and 145 mg.

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Abbott Laboratories has opened its Abbott Nutrition facility at the Research Park on the University of Illinois campus.

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Global pharmaceutical companies Baxter International Incorporated : and Abbott Laboratories : this week reported earnings for the third quarter of their 2009 fiscal years.