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8 hrs ago | Sun Journal

More than 80 participate in Bike MS training ride

Spandex was the attire of choice Saturday when a large pack of bicyclists rode out together to get in shape for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Eastern N.C. Chapter's bike ride in September.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, New Bern, NC

16 hrs ago | Http

GTC Agreement Takes Aim At MS

Framingham-based GTC Biotherapeutics Inc. now has the rights to develop and commercialize a protein that could be used to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, GTC Biotherapeutics, Health

Fri Jul 10, 2009

MediLexicon

Drug Manufacturer Receives Fast Track Designation From FDA

Pharmaceutical firm Biogen Idec announced that the American drug watchdog the Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track designation for its multiple sclerosis drug PEGylated interferon beta-1a . The company is currently enrolling patients in a global Phase III study evaluating the effectiveness and safety of either bi-weekly or ...

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Biogen Idec, Health

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Western Morning News

'Con victims' lost A 700,000

MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer William McIntyre allegedly conned 19 people out of a total of more than A 700,000, a jury at Truro Crown Court has been told.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

Biogen-Idec MS drug put on FDA Fast Track

A multiple sclerosis drug being developed by Biogen Idec has won Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opening the door for a quicker trip through the approval process.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Law, Biotech, Biogen Idec, Medicine, Health, Avonex, Interferon Beta-1a (generic), Medication

Med Ad News

GTC Biotherapeutics In-Licenses Recombinant Human Alpha-Fetoprotein From Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to the development and commercialization of recombinant human alpha-fetoprotein , including the recombinant, non-glycosylated version of rhAFP known as MM-093, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases from Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, GTC Biotherapeutics, Health, Myasthenia Gravis, Cambridge, MA

Tue Jul 07, 2009

BioSpace

Kineta Inc. Acquires Novel Drug Candidates from for Potential...

Kineta, Inc. of Seattle and Airmid Incorporated of Redwood City, CA jointly announce an agreement in which a Kineta subsidiary has acquired exclusive commercial rights to a portfolio of novel therapeutic compounds from Airmid.

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Related Topix: Redwood City, CA, Medicine, Health, UC Irvine

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Acorda Therapeutics shares fall on concerns Biogen partnership could cramp buyout possibility

Shares of Acorda Therapeutics Inc. fell Wednesday after the company gave Biogen Idec Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Acorda Therapeutics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health

Mon Jul 06, 2009

HealthCentral

Financial Assistance For Other Ms Related Needs

In my last post , I provided a list of places that may be able to help you with financial assistance for your MS medications.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Charitable Organizations, Home, Mortgage

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Medical News Today

New Control System Of The Body Discovered - Important Modulator...

New Control System Of The Body Discovered - Important Modulator Of Immune Cell Entry Into The Brain - Perhaps New Target For The Therapy Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Multiple Sclerosis ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 29 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT Researchers in Berlin, Germany have ameliorated inflammation of the ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Neurology, Health, World News, Germany, Stanford, CA

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Hartford Courant

Greater New Britain: Southington Teen Claims Adversity Tightened Bonds Of Love

People Submitted by Karen E. Butler on 2009-07-02.   Southington residents Jennifer Castonguay and her daughter Jessica Castonguay at the June 8 reception honoring the 2009 Hayley's Hope & Michaela's Miracle MS Scholarship recipients.

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Related Topix: Jennifer, Ballad, Southington, CT, New Britain, CT, Medicine, Health, Farmington, CT

Thu Jul 02, 2009

MediLexicon

Important Modulator Of Immune Cell Entry Into The Brain Discovered

Researchers in Berlin, Germany have ameliorated inflammation of the brain in mice caused by immune cells.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Medicine, Health, Stanford, CA

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Med Ad News

Biogen Idec and Acorda Therapeutics Announce Collaboration Agreement...

Biogen Idec and Acorda Therapeutics Announce Collaboration Agreement to Develop and Commercialize MS Therapy Fampridine-SR in Markets Outside the U.S. Acorda to Continue to Develop and Commercialize Fampridine-SR in the U.S. Upfront Payment of $110 Million; Potential Deal Value Over $500 Million Acorda to Host Conference Call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Biogen Idec, Acorda Therapeutics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health, Elan Corporation Plc

Science Blog

New clue into how brain stem cells develop into cells which repair damaged tissue

The joint research, funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the UK MS Society as well as the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was conducted by scientists at the University of California San Francisco and University of Cambridge and was published today in the journal Genes and Development.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Charitable Organizations, Biotech, UC San Francisco

BioSpace

UCB Group and Biogen Idec, Inc. (Massachusetts) Discontinue Phase II Clinical Trial of CDP323

UCB and Biogen Idec announced today the discontinuation of the Phase II clinical trial of CDP323 for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis .

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Related Topix: Biotech, Biogen Idec, Medicine, Health

Tue Jun 30, 2009

LancasterOnline

MS patient should find support elsewhe...

DEAR ANNIE: I am 49, the eldest of four siblings and have been suffering with multiple sclerosis for years.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Fleetwood Today

MP Maclean set to stand down David Maclean, Conservative MP for...

David Maclean, Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border for 26 years, is to stand down at the next election.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

CiteULike

Modern multiple sclerosis treatment - what is approved, what is on the horizon.

NEW dalia NEW Abstract In the mid-1990s, the implementation of the immunomodulatory drugs interferon-beta and glatiramer acetate offered the first evidence-based treatment option for multiple sclerosis .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

10th Tysabri PML case sinks Biogen shares

The Biogen Idec sign welcomes visitors to the company's RTP operations. Shares of Biogen Idec sunk Monday after the biotechnology giant confirmed that another patient taking the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Biogen Idec, Medicine, Health, Elan Corporation Plc, Food and Drug Administration

Science, Industry and Business

New Control System of the Body Discovered - Important Modulator of Immune Cell Entry into the Brain

Researchers in Berlin, Germany have ameliorated inflammation of the brain in mice caused by immune cells.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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