News Articles from Friday 29^th of May 2009

17:30: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces Date of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

17:22: TorreyPines Therapeutics Announces its Board of Directors' Approval of Plan of Liquidation and Dissolution

17:07: Schwarzenegger Wants To Eliminate Home Care For 400,000 Elderly, Blind and Disabled Californians

17:00: Endo Announces Compensation for New CFO Alan Levin

17:00: Smart Balance to Present at William Blair Growth Stock Conference

16:55: West Pharmaceutical Services to Present at the 2009 UBS Global Specialty Pharmaceuticals Conference

16:39: Lung Cancer Alliance Calls American Cancer Society's Claim of Progress Selective

16:30: Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Reports Single Agent Phase 2 Data of KRX-0401 (Perifosine) Further Demonstrating KRX-0401's Activity in the Treatment of Advanced Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer

15:24: Britannia Members Back Super-Mutual Merger With the Co-Operative Financial Services

15:15: Former NIH Head Joins Mayo Clinic Trustees

14:41: The Pill Kills Women: Largest Protest Against Birth Control Pill

14:23: Progressive Leaders to Announce the Largest Health Care Reform Campaign in American History

13:25: Beckman Coulter to Present at the 2009 Goldman Sachs Healthcare Conference

13:12: FDA Advisory Panel Makes Favorable Recommendation for GlaxoSmithKline and Genmab's ARZERRA(TM) (ofatumumab)

13:09: ALIMTA(R) (pemetrexed for injection) Receives Positive Opinion From CHMP as Maintenance Therapy for Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

12:41: Monterey Mushrooms Launches Vitamin D Enriched Sun Grill-A-Bella and White Mushrooms

12:36: Hospital Car Parking Fees Top the List of Life's Biggest Injustices

12:21: New Study Shows Probiotics Linked to Metabolism

12:20: Bayer Announces Leukine(R) Data Presentations at 45th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

12:04: Home At HSC

11:57: New Cellular Bioenergetics Workshops Series Inaugurated by Seahorse Bioscience with Two of the World's Leading Bioenergetics Researchers

11:51: The Female Health Company Switches to the NASDAQ Stock Market

11:32: Abbott Named One of the Top 10 Companies for Scientists

11:25: AUDIO from Medialink, Bayer Healthcare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals: Facts About Hepatitis

11:11: Spirus Medical Announces Complete Examinations of the Small Intestine by Physicians Using Endo-Ease(TM)

11:05: Caldwell Consumer Health Becomes Revive Personal Products, Inc., with OPTIONS(TM) Line of Women's Sexual Health Products & Oral Health Brands; See Us at NACDS Booth 533 (The Emerson Group)

10:54: ViroPharma Announces Meeting of FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology on Bioequivalence Recommendations for Oral Vancomycin Hydrochloride Products

10:45: New Interactive Tools From ACG Aim to Bring Hope to Millions of IBS Patients Searching for Relief

10:38: PRA International Oncology Experts at ASCO

10:31: Advanced Life Sciences Announces Posting of Briefing Documents for FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Restanza(TM) (cethromycin)

10:30: J. Craig Venter Institute Awarded $43 Million, Five Year Contract From NIAID to Continue to Develop and Provide Sequencing, Genotyping, and Bioinformatics Expertise and Services in Infectious Diseases

10:00: PA Department of Health Launches Spanish-Language Smoking Cessation Resource Web Site

10:00: Women's Health Foundation, POISE(R) Brand Look for Passionate Women's Health Advocates

10:00: Chico's Raises $200K for the American Heart Association

09:49: Join Men's Health Network in Celebration of Men's Health Month

09:44: Student Veteran Health Examined in First-of-Its-Kind Study by University of Minnesota/Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

09:31: Zeus to Present at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago

09:31: Gifford Named Zeus Director of International Sales

09:26: Phosphagenics Announces Completion of Transdermal Patch Prototypes

09:20: Beacon Equity Issues Stock Alerts on Leading Pharmaceutical Giants

09:13: Exiqon Diagnostics Partners With MedTrust Online to Promote KRAS Mutation Analysis and Other Innovative Molecular Oncology Diagnostic Services to Oncologists

09:02: Citi Private Equity Executive Joins Water Street Healthcare Partners

08:25: Father's Day Present: Freedom From Fear and Attachments

08:15: Bausch & Lomb Receives FDA Approval of Besivance(TM), New Topical Ophthalmic Antibacterial for the Treatment of Bacterial Conjunctivitis ('Pink Eye')

08:00: New Preliminary Data from Two Studies Show Clinical Activity of Neratinib in Combination with Trastuzumab and in Combination with Paclitaxel in Advanced HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer

08:00: Landauer Names Douglas R. Gipson Chief Nuclear Executive

08:00: Amylin Pharmaceuticals to Present Compelling Efficacy and Safety Data From Diabetes Programs at ADA 2009

08:00: Mylan Receives Tentative FDA Approval for Generic Version of Singulair(R)

08:00: Vion Pharmaceuticals to Present Data on Onrigin(TM)at the ASCO(R) Annual Meeting

08:00: Genomic Health Study Shows Breast Cancers in Men Display Very Similar Gene Signatures to Those in Women

08:00: New Fast and Precise Treatment Planning System Among Varian Medical Systems Highlights at American Brachytherapy Society 2009 Meeting

07:30: Dey L.P. to Market EMSAM(R) Skin Patch for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

07:00: Kenneth L. Reed, M.D. Performs First State of the Art AccuraScope(TM) Procedure in Dallas

07:00: Association Wants One Million People to Commit to CPR Training

06:00: Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Announces Top-Line Results of CPP-109 Phase II Trial for Cocaine Addiction

06:00: Perceptive Informatics Enhances Investigator Application of New RECIST Version in Imaging-Based Oncology Trials

05:00: Global Creative, Media and Technology Agency LBi Launches Cutting Edge Social Movement for the British Red Cross in Support of Refugee Week

04:47: Gerresheimer Opens New High-Tech Production Facility for Pharma Glass in China