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Friday | Aidsmap

Brazil rejects tenofovir patent

Brazil's National Institute of Industrial Property has rejected a patent on Gilead's version of tenofovir, one of the most commonly used antiretroviral drugs, following a lengthy investigation.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu Sep 04, 2008

PharmaGossip

Gilead - Viread: patently wrong

Brazil's government has turned down a patent application from US drugmaker Gilead Sciences for its HIV/AIDS drug Viread , after the country's patent office ruled that it lacked technological inventiveness.

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Related Topix: Viread, Tenofovir (generic), Medicine, Medication, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, HIV/AIDS, Health

Tue Sep 02, 2008

San Francisco Chronicle

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Google to release its Internet browser today Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer Google Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Sun Aug 31, 2008

Environmental Science & Tech.

Growth Amid Pharma Cutbacks

The biopharmaceutical company plans to add about 1,900 jobs and double office and lab facilities at its Foster City, Calif., headquarters over the next 10 years.

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Related Topix: Durham, NC, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Cystic Fibrosis

Thu Aug 28, 2008

PR-inside.com

Gilead Sciences to Present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare...

Patrick O'Brien, Investor Relations, 650-522-1936 Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that its corporate presentation will be webcast from the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference in Boston.

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

Wed Aug 27, 2008

Investor's Business Daily

Long-Term Investor: Gilead's Sales Still Dependent On HIV Drugs

Biotechs often take years before producing a profit, as they're often in the development stages of drugs.

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Related Topix: Foster City, CA, HIV/AIDS, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Financial Markets, Opinion

Fri Aug 22, 2008

The San Francisco Business Times

Gilead's hiring plan: 1,900 new jobs

Gilead Sciences Inc. plans to nearly double the office and R&D space at its Foster City headquarters as it adds 1,900 jobs there over 10 years.

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Related Topix: Startups, Gilead Sciences, HIV/AIDS, Health, Medicine, Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Wed Aug 20, 2008

Asian Week

Gilead Sciences Offers New Hep B Treatment

Produced by the Foster City-based Gilead Sciences, the once-daily tablet Viread has been granted marketing approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the ...

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Related Topix: Marketing, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Startups, Medicine, Gilead Sciences, Healthcare Industry, UC Davis, Hepatitis, Health

Mon Aug 18, 2008

Fool.com

Funds for a Sick Economy?

Overshadowed by gyrations in the credit, commodity, and energy markets, biotech has been a sleeper with positive returns.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Amgen, Celgene, Genentech, Genzyme General, Financial Markets

Sun Aug 17, 2008

HIV and Hepatitis

FDA Approves Gilead's Tenofovir (Viread) for Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B

Gilead Sciences this week announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved tenofovir for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection .

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Related Topix: Marketing, Startups, Gilead Sciences, Biotech, Healthcare Law, Medicine, Law, Healthcare Industry, Food and Drug Administration

Mon Aug 11, 2008

Reuters

Gilead wins OK to promote drug for hepatitis B

Gilead Sciences said on Monday it won U.S. approval to promote its AIDS drug Viread for treating adults with chronic hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a potentially life-threatening infection that can destroy the ...

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Related Topix: Hepatitis, Medicine, Health, Liver Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Viread, Tenofovir (generic), Medication

Sat Aug 09, 2008

TheStreet.com

Health Winners & Losers: Gilead

Investors were high on health stocks Friday, reestablishing gains for the week's close.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Amgen, Healthcare Industry, Celgene, ImClone Systems, Bristol Myers Squibb, Financial Markets

Wed Aug 06, 2008

Birmingham News Online

Continue reading "UAB's Richard Whitley joins Gilead Sciences board"

Dr. Richard J. Whitley, a UAB pediatrics, microbiology, medicine and neurosurgery professor, has been named a director for Gilead Sciences Inc ., the Foster City, Calif.-based biopharmaceutical company said ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Mon Aug 04, 2008

Bloomberg Business News

Gilead to Test AIDS Drugs on Healthy People to See if HIV Infections Stop

Drugs made by Gilead Sciences Inc . that have been shown to treat the AIDS virus will be tested in healthy people to see if they can prevent the lethal disease.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, HIV/AIDS, Health

Sun Aug 03, 2008

Bizjournals

New HIV data strengthens case for Gilead drug

Data presented at an international HIV conference this month could boost sales of Gilead Sciences Inc.

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Related Topix: Startups, Gilead Sciences, Medicine, Health, HIV/AIDS, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Viread, Tenofovir (generic), Medication, Ziagen, Abacavir (generic)

Sat Aug 02, 2008

Fox News

Gilead, Merck Sign Deal To Distribute HIV Medication

The granddaddy of monthly economic reports is the federal reading on the employment situation.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Business News

Fri Aug 01, 2008

BioSpace

Gilead Sciences Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc. Enter Into an Agreement to ...

Gilead Sciences Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc. Enter Into an Agreement to Register and Distribute HIV Medication Atripla in Twelve Countries 8/1/2008 FOSTER CITY, Calif.

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Related Topix: Whitehouse Station, NJ, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Startups, Gilead Sciences, HIV/AIDS, Health, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

PR-inside.com

Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Genentech, Biogen Idec, Gilead, Celgene and Pfizer

Today's interview is with senior analyst Jason Napodano, who discusses Genentech , Biogen Idec , Gilead , Celgene and Pfizer .

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Celgene, Medicine, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Healthcare Industry, Financial Markets

Thu Jul 31, 2008

Investor's Business Daily

Strong Principles Translate To Growth

When Eugene Sit founded his Sit Mid Cap Growth fund nearly 27 years ago, he insisted it follow two principles: integrity and above-average, sustainable growth.

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Related Topix: Outsourcing, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Biotech, Opinion

Wed Jul 30, 2008

JoongAng Ilbo English News

U.S. buys local anti-AIDS drug

A Korean state research institute said yesterday it has sold technology for producing an effective anti-AIDS material to a leading pharmaceutical company in the United States.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

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