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1 hr ago | AndhraNews

Sun Pharma to License Key Escitalopram Patent Applications to Lundbeck

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that along with Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd , it had entered into agreements with Forest Laboratories, Inc., Forest Laboratories Holdings, Ltd., and H. Lundbeck A/S to settle the legal proceedings related to Lexapro tablets.

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Related Topix: Lexapro, Escitalopram (generic), Medication, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Forest Labs, Marketing

6 hrs ago | Fox Philadelphia

FDA Clears Blood Thinner Effient

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly anticipated blood thinner from Eli Lilly after more than 18 months of review.

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Related Topix: SanofiSynthlabo, Bristol Myers Squibb, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

10 hrs ago | India Gazette

Mahindra Satyam retains contract with GlaxoSmithKline

India Gazette Thursday 9th July, 2009 Mahindra Satyam renewed a five-year multi-million dollar contract with GlaxoSmithKline to provide system application products and other critical systems support worldwide, the IT services provider said here Thursday.

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Related Topix: Satyam Computer Services, Software, Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthcare Industry

14 hrs ago | Macon Area Online

Wall Street ekes out gains

Thu Jul 9, 2009 4:45pm EDT - Flags fly outside of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building in the financial district of New York May 8, 2009.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Financial Markets, Mining, Alcoa, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry

18 hrs ago | KansasCity.com

Oil drops below $60 as traders eye company results

Oil prices dropped below $60 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors braced for a slew of company earnings reports next week that will provide clues on the strength of crude demand.Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 68 cents at $59.73 a barrel by late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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Related Topix: Alcoa, Mining, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu Jul 09, 2009

KSWB-TV San Diego

Assembly votes to give city final say over Children's Pool seals

The state Assembly voted unanimously Thursday to approve a bill that gives the city of San Diego more authority over the fate of a colony of harbor seals at the Children's Pool in La Jolla.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, San Diego Metro, La-Jolla, CA, La Jolla Pharmaceutical, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

M2.com

Targacept says AstraZeneca will advance AZD3480 programme in deficit/hyperactivity disorder

AstraZeneca also confirmed plans to continue development of AZD1446 for Alzheimer's disease.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Targacept , AstraZeneca Group, ADHD, Health, Alzheimer's

Kansas City Star

Obama phones flu meeting to say get ready for fall

President Barack Obama is adding his personal call to states to get ready for a possible swine flu resurgence in the fall.Obama telephoned the National Institutes of Health all the way from Italy Thursday to tell a meeting of 500 flu officials not to promote panic - but to make sure "we are promoting vigilance and preparation."Saying the potential ...

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

The Plain Dealer

Continue reading "Merck, Portola in $470 million deal for anticlotting drug"

Merck & Co. and Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday they have signed an exclusive deal to develop and market an experimental drug to prevent strokes in people with a dangerous irregular heart rhythm.

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Related Topix: Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Stroke, Marketing

ClickOnDetroit.com

WHO OKs Cervical Cancer Vaccine Cervarix

The World Health Organization has approved a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, meaning U.N. agencies and partners can now officially buy millions of doses of the vaccine for poor countries worldwide.

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Related Topix: Cervical Cancer, Health, Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthcare Industry

The Winnipeg Free Press

Colabor Income Fund to covert to corporation, to pay quarterly dividend

Colabor Income Fund said Tuesday that it will convert to a corporate structure in an arrangement with ConjuChem Biotechnologies Inc.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Travel

Wed Jul 08, 2009

WOIO

New drug fights anthrax toxin

Scientists report that experiments in animals show that a new, monoclonal antibody drug might safely cure anthrax poisoning in humans.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Human Genome Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Law, University of Rochester, Immunology, Biology, Science

KAKE-TV Wichita

Obama To Name Gene Guru Francis Collins NIH Chief

President Barack Obama will nominate gene guru Dr. Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Chicago Tribune

Closing arguments end in Ala. lawsuit accusing drug company of overcharging Medicaid programs

Closing arguments have ended in the state of Alabama 's lawsuit against a California -based drug maker accused of cheating the state's Medicaid program out of millions of dollars.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Alabama, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Business News

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

New York jazz festival gets new sponsor

A new sponsor has emerged to resurrect New York's flagship jazz festival and help support some of the country's largest and oldest jazz events, organizers said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Cardinal Health, Marketing, Newport, RI, Jazz, Tony Bennett

RTE Business

US firm's Cork plan to add 30 jobs

US biotechnology company Gilead Sciences is to set up a new financial centre for its European businesses in Cork, creating 30 new jobs.

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Related Topix: Gilead Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Salon.com

Appeals court rules for Abbott in AIDS drug case

A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit accusing Abbott Laboratories of antitrust violations over a sudden 400-percent price hike of a popular AIDS drug.

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Related Topix: Abbott Laboratories, HIV/AIDS, Health, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Tue Jul 07, 2009

GlobeSt.com

New Pfizer Biotech Research...

Pfizer this week officially killed plans to open a biotech research center in leased space near UCSF's Mission Bay Campus.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Real Estate, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, San Francisco Metro, South San Francisco, CA

Chicago Tribune

GlaxoSmithKline says study shows Cervarix vaccine could protect against further HPV strains

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday a study shows its human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix was effective against the types of HPV that are most likely to cause cervical cancer , but also fought other strains of the disease.

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Related Topix: Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthcare Industry, Cervical Cancer, Health, Business News

GlobeNewswire

King and Pain Therapeutics Announce REMOXY(r) NDA Update

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pain Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that on July 2, 2009, King met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to discuss the Complete Response Letter regarding the New Drug Application for REMOXY .

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Related Topix: Pain Therapeutics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Startups, King Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Marketing

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