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Salix Pharmaceuticals prices $600M loan offering

Gastrointestinal treatments firm Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) aims to raise $600 million in debt financing. The Raleigh, North Carolina company has priced the $600 million offering of convertible senior notes, which is open to qualified institutional investors. Salix could raise up to $90 million more if purchasers exercise overallotment options. Interest on the notes will be […]

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Salix files NDA for diarrhea drug despite dispute with partner Napo

Gastrointestinal therapeutics firm Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) is pressing ahead with a drug candidate to treat diarrhea in AIDS patients despite a deteriorating relationship with its drug partner that has led to a contract dispute and dueling lawsuits. Raleigh, North Carolina-based Salix today filed a New Drug Application for crofelemer, a filing that comes more than […]

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Salix IBS drug set to start second phase 3 trial in January

The Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) irritable bowel syndrome drug candidate that failed to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval earlier this year is on its way to starting another phase 3 clinical trial. The Raleigh, North Carolina company said an FDA advisory committee has accepted the company’s proposed clinical trial design studying Xifaxan for irritable […]

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Napo terminates Salix agreement, claims SLXP contract breach

Salix Pharmaceuticals‘ (NASDAQ:SLXP) drug partner Napo Pharmaceuticals has terminated the collaboration agreement between the two companies over Salix’s failure to advance a promising anti-diarrhea drug for AIDS patients fast enough for the California company. Termination of the collaboration to develop the drug candidate crofelemer was effective Nov. 4 — a year to the date of […]

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FDA to review Salix constipation drug Relistor for new indication

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will review a constipation drug marketed by Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) to consider adding a new indication for the product. Relistor is an injectable drug approved in 2008 to treat constipation in seriously ill patients who take pain-killing opioid medication. Opioids relieve pain by acting on receptors in the spinal […]

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Three patents awarded for drug from N.C. pharma Salix

Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) is still working through issues that kept regulators from approving a drug for irritable bowel syndrome, but the North Carolina company is securing additional patent rights on the compound for other indications. Morrisville, North Carolina-based Salix announced Wednesday that the U.S. Patent and Trade Office has issued three patents relating to rifaximin, […]

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Salix expands drug delivery technology partnership with Indian pharma

Salix Pharmaceuticals is extending an agreement with an Indian pharmaceutical partner to give Salix exclusive global rights, except for India, to a key drug-delivery technology. Morrisville, North Carolina-based Salix (NASDAQ:SLXP) in 2009 licensed the drug delivery technology from Mumbai, India-based Lupin Pharmaceuticals. Salix uses that technology in its gastrointestinal drug rifaximin, marketed as Xifaxan. Salix […]