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Angel groups are investing more but making the money harder to get

Angel groups are investing more but making the money harder to get

June 17, 2013 4:11 pm by | 0 Comments

This is the second of a two-part series on the evolution of angel investing. To read part one, click here.As groups of high-net-worth individuals continue to band together in the ... Read more
ViroPharma isn’t looking, but sources say pharma companies are interested in bringing this orphan into their families

ViroPharma isn’t looking, but sources say pharma companies are interested in bringing this orphan into their families

June 17, 2013 11:29 am by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ViroPharma Inc is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter.While ViroPharma is not ... Read more
Supreme Court: FTC can challenge deals that keep cheaper generic drugs off market

Supreme Court: FTC can challenge deals that keep cheaper generic drugs off market

June 17, 2013 11:26 am by | 0 Comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Federal Trade Commission can challenge deals that brand-name drug companies make with generic rivals to keep cheaper products ... Read more
J&J continues to build prostate cancer portfolio with $1B Aragon deal

J&J continues to build prostate cancer portfolio with $1B Aragon deal

June 17, 2013 8:16 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it would pay up to $1 billion for Aragon Pharmaceuticals and its experimental drugs for prostate cancer, bolstering J&J's role in the field after ... Read more
Crosser system shakes things up for patients with PAD, helps prevent amputations

Crosser system shakes things up for patients with PAD, helps prevent amputations

June 17, 2013 3:05 am by | 0 Comments

By his own acknowledgement, you don't want to get to the point where you have to see Dr. Joseph Quintana. Quintana, an interventional cardiologist with Cardiology Care Consultants, deals with ... Read more
Roche’s Avastin approved in Japan for treatment of aggressive brain cancer

Roche’s Avastin approved in Japan for treatment of aggressive brain cancer

June 17, 2013 1:39 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry has approved drug Avastin for the treatment of aggressive brain cancer in Japan, Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche said on Monday.Avastin is the first new ... Read more
New biotech company may prevent blood clots through its anticoagulant drug

New biotech company may prevent blood clots through its anticoagulant drug

June 16, 2013 7:04 pm by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have won early financial backing for a new kind of anticoagulant drug they believe may prevent dangerous blood clots without causing bleeding - a previously ... Read more
Teva’s Pfizer settlement triggers Moody’s downgrade

Teva’s Pfizer settlement triggers Moody’s downgrade

June 16, 2013 3:53 pm by | 0 Comments

On Friday, Moody's Investor Service reiterated its A3 rating for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA), but lowered the outlook from "Stable" to "Negative", following the company's $1.6 ... Read more
Cognitive behavior therapy or drugs for patients with depression? A brain scan could tell

Cognitive behavior therapy or drugs for patients with depression? A brain scan could tell

June 14, 2013 5:51 pm by | 0 Comments

A biomarker could cut the trial-and-error of finding a patient's best therapy. A brain scan could one day help doctors prescribe the best treatment to patients with major depressive disorder. ... Read more
Controversial restless legs syndrome tied to men’s earlier deaths

Controversial restless legs syndrome tied to men’s earlier deaths

June 14, 2013 4:12 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men with restless legs syndrome (RLS) were more likely to die during an eight-year study than those without the condition, even after their age and ... Read more
Saudi Health Ministry reports another death from MERS, brings global total to 33

Saudi Health Ministry reports another death from MERS, brings global total to 33

June 14, 2013 2:14 pm by | 0 Comments

RIYADH (Reuters) - One more person has died and two more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus, MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Friday.Saudi ... Read more
India’s Ranbaxy has “ambitious growth plan” in U.S., will file generic drugs for marketing exclusivity

India’s Ranbaxy has “ambitious growth plan” in U.S., will file generic drugs for marketing exclusivity

June 14, 2013 12:05 pm by | 0 Comments

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's No.1 drugmaker by sales, plans to file three to four generic drug applications every year that can earn it a six-month marketing exclusivity in ... Read more
Teva under investigation in Paris, six deaths may have resulted from packaging mistakes

Teva under investigation in Paris, six deaths may have resulted from packaging mistakes

June 14, 2013 12:00 pm by | 0 Comments

"Bloomberg" reports that Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into drug packaging mistakes at a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) plant in Sens, in north-central France, which ... Read more
More research needed for use of anti-seizure drugs to treat women’s genital pain

More research needed for use of anti-seizure drugs to treat women’s genital pain

June 14, 2013 11:20 am by | 0 Comments

Based on these studies, "it's very difficult to make definitive statements on efficacy," said Dr. Raphael Leo, the study's author from the State University of New York at Buffalo. "Certainly, ... Read more
North Carolina’s Triad region, a neighbor to biotech hub RTP, launches new StartUp Lab

North Carolina’s Triad region, a neighbor to biotech hub RTP, launches new StartUp Lab

June 14, 2013 9:55 am by | 0 Comments

Research Triangle Park might be North Carolina’s hotbed for biotechnology, but the neighboring Piedmont Triad region has quite a bit going on in the way of healthcare innovation, too.An economic ... Read more