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Sunday Dec 13 | Bizjournals

Business group gathers to push a oeprogressivea agenda

Leaders of the nonprofit startup Progressive Business Leaders Network realize that fundraising in this economy is tricky.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Fri Dec 11, 2009

Mass High Tech

Vertex appoints Wysenksi its new commercial head

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has appointed Nancy J. Wysenski as executive vice president and chief commercial officer.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Lexiva, Fosamprenavir Calcium (generic), Medication

Thu Dec 10, 2009

M2.com

Profiles Smokefree Innotec, Inc. & Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Boston, MA, -- Smokefree Innotec, Inc. ; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated TheWallStreetLeader.com is part of Stock Profiler.US, LLC's News Division.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Boston, MA Metro, Marketing, Smoking

Pharmaceutical Processing

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Appointment of Nancy J. Wysenski as Chief Commercial Officer

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced the appointment of Nancy J. Wysenski as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Marketing

Fri Dec 04, 2009

BusinessWeek

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Gain on BofA News

The nation's largest lender gained more than 3 percent in Germany as the move to pay down debt helped free the bank from restrictions on executive pay that had hampered its search for a new leader.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, 9, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services

Thu Dec 03, 2009

TheStreet.com

Vertex Raising Money -- Again!: BioBuzz

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is addicted to two things -- spending money and raising the same.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Food and Drug Administration

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Business Wire

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell 11,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten offering at a price to the public of $38.50 per share, which would result in aggregate gross proceeds of $442.8 million.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Financial Services, Investment Services, Investment Banking

Mass High Tech

Vertex plans sale of 10M shares

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. says it intends to offer 10 million shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Financial Services

Tue Dec 01, 2009

The Motley Fool

Great Call on MGM Mirage! What's Next?

It's quite an exciting time to be involved with casino operator MGM Mirage . After $8.5 billion and much hand-wringing , the company is getting set to open its massive CityCenter project, a 67-acre complex which the company hopes will help reduce its $13 billion in debt and drive it forward in a postrecession world.

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Related Topix: Media, Hotels, MGM Mirage, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Cystic Fibrosis, Health, Hepatitis

Wed Nov 25, 2009

BioSpace

Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. Pursuing New Drug for Liver, Hopes to Help People Stay Mentally Sharp

Xconomy.com -- The liver is hot in the biotech world. Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals has made headlines this year with an antiviral drug that it hopes will do for hepatitis Ca 'a chronic liver-damaging condition affecting millions of peoplea 'what a previous generation of treatments did for HIV.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Boston.com

One lab's trash becomes a poorer one's treasure

When Nina Dudnik arrived at Harvard Medical School in 2001 to pursue her doctorate, her eyes weren't drawn to the marble hallways, the state-of-the-art facilities, or the august faculty.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, World News, Kenya, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Boston Metro

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

WHEATON, Ill.-- --First Trust/Aberdeen Global Opportunity Income Fund has declared the Fund's regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution payable... WHEATON, Ill.-- --First Trust/FIDAC Mortgage Income Fund has declared the Fund's regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution payable on December... WHEATON, Ill.-- --First ...

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Related Topix: Wheaton, IL, Public Relations, Product Recalls, Home, Mortgage, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Tue Nov 17, 2009

CNN Money

Tech stocks off the beaten path

If you only look at its performance so far this year, Ivy Science & Technology, which has $1 billion in assets, doesn't look terribly impressive.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Amgen

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

ARLINGTON, Va.-- --The Consumer Electronics Association today announced that Dr.

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Related Topix: Business Wire, Startups, Real Estate, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Cleveland Cliffs, Mining, Metals, New York, Financial Services, Morgan Stanley

Thu Nov 12, 2009

American Chronicle

News and FDA Updates for Teva

A complete list of all headlines and biomedical stock developments can be found on BioMedReports.Com On 11/10/09, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Law, Biotech, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Medicine, Prevacid, Lansoprazole (generic), Medication, Healthcare Industry, Opinion

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Mass High Tech

Vertex exchanges notes for company stock

Holders of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s 2013 convertible senior subordinated notes have agreed to trade about $109 million worth for about 4.8 million shares of Vertex common stock - about 140,000 shares more than the number of shares promised via the notes, the company announced today.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Bioscience Technology

Vertex Pharma trades 2013 debt for new shares

Drug developer Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday that holders of $109 million in convertible notes due in 2013 have agreed to swap the notes for about 4.8 million shares of common stock.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Biology, Science

Bioscience Technology

Vertex Pharma trades 2013 debt for new shares

Drug developer Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday that holders of $109 million in convertible notes due in 2013 have agreed to swap the notes for about 4.8 million shares of common stock.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Mon Nov 09, 2009

TheStreet.com

Doc Offers Top Hep C Drug Picks: BioBuzz

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' experimental hepatitis C drug telaprevir was the star of last week's big hepatitis C research meeting, according to a well-respected doctor in the field who briefed institutional investors this afternoon.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Hepatitis, Health, Diabetes, Business News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

WSB-TV

Vertex Jumps On Data For Twice-Daily Telaprevir

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said a study shows its hepatitis C drug telaprevir can be dosed twice per day instead of three times, and Vertex shares shot to their highest price in two years.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Hepatitis, Health, Cambridge, MA

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