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OSIR reports net income of $15.7M for fourth-quarter 2009 compared to net loss of $7.8M in 2008: MicroStockProfit.com

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Osiris Therapeutics Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

6 May 2010

New research to improve effectiveness of nicotine vaccination for cigarette smokers

If Pradeep K. Garg, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center figures out why some smokers are more addicted to nicotine than others, it could lead to more successful smoking cessation treatments.

6 May 2010

Prescription drug may have new use in boosting effectiveness of vaccines for bacterial, viral diseases

A prescription drug already approved to treat genital warts and skin cancer may have a new use in boosting the effectiveness of future vaccines for bacterial and viral diseases, such as hepatitis C and HIV (the AIDS virus). These findings appear in ACS' Molecular Pharmaceutics, a bi-monthly journal.

6 May 2010

Labopharm's first-quarter fiscal 2010 revenues from product sales decrease $0.4M to $3.2M

Labopharm Inc. today reported its financial results for the first quarter 2010.

6 May 2010

Colonoscopy preparation drugs administered same day as procedure equally effective: Researchers

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that colonoscopy preparation drugs administered the same day as the procedure are equally effective to those given the night before and the morning of the procedure, but result in less complaints of side effects such as abdominal pain, sleep loss and workday interference.

6 May 2010

Cohera Medical reports top-line results from Tissuglu clinical trial

Cohera Medical, Inc.® today announced that top-line clinical study results demonstrate the safety and preliminary effectiveness of the company's lead surgical adhesive product, TissuGlu®.

6 May 2010

Pharmasset reports net loss of $16.1 million for fiscal second-quarter 2010

Pharmasset, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections, today reported financial results and operational highlights for the quarter ended March 31, 2010.

6 May 2010

GENFIT announces milestone as compound developed in partnership enters the clinic

GENFIT (Alternext: ALGFT; ISIN: FR0004163111), a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of drug discovery and development, focusing on the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of cardiometabolic and associated disorders, today announces the achievement of a milestone in the therapeutic research collaboration with one of its strategic pharmaceutical partners.

6 May 2010

EpiCept provides update on corporate strategy, reports net loss of $4.5M for first-quarter 2010

EpiCept Corporation today announced operating and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2010, and provided an update with respect to the Company's key business initiatives.

6 May 2010

Increase in antibiotic resistance found in soil microbes

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are reporting disturbing evidence that soil microbes have become progressively more resistant to antibiotics over the last 60 years. Surprisingly, this trend continues despite apparent more stringent rules on use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, and improved sewage treatment technology that broadly improves water quality in surrounding environments.

6 May 2010

New York federal court jury favors Merck in Maley FOSAMAX case

Merck today said a unanimous federal court jury in New York found in its favor in the Maley v. Merck case, rejecting the claims of a plaintiff who blamed her dental and jaw-related problems on her FOSAMAX use.

6 May 2010

Investigations on Tylenol recall from House Committee

Following the massive recall of children’s and infants’ fever medicine Tylenol and other over the counter drugs (like Motrin, Benadryl and Zyrtec) for children a congressional committee has urged an investigation into the problem.

6 May 2010

New combination eye drops effective in treating bacterial keratitis

Scientists are reporting development of a potential new way of enabling patients with bacterial keratitis to stick with the extraordinarily intensive treatment needed for this potentially blinding eye infection.

6 May 2010

Savient Pharmaceuticals' total revenues reach $1.1M in first-quarter 2010

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its board of directors, with input from its financial advisors, has determined that a sale of Savient post-approval of KRYSTEXXA by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (assuming KRYSTEXXA is approved) would be the best way to realize the full commercial potential of KRYSTEXXA on a global basis and would be the optimal outcome for the Company's shareholders and other stakeholders.

6 May 2010

Watson Laboratories files raloxifene hydrochloride tablet ANDA

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today confirmed that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc. filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market a raloxifene hydrochloride tablet. Watson's raloxifene hydrochloride tablet is a generic version of Eli Lilly's EVISTA®.

6 May 2010

BioScrip, drugstore.com form strategic partnership

drugstore.com, inc., a leading online retailer of health, beauty, vision and pharmacy products, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with BioScrip, Inc. (BIOS), through its BioScrip Pharmacy Services subsidiary, to sell the assets of its pharmacy subsidiary and to have BioScrip provide, through a strategic partnership, pharmacy services to drugstore.com customers. drugstore.com expects its customers' transition to the new platform to be seamless.

6 May 2010

Allos Therapeutics reports net loss of $20.5 million for first-quarter 2010

Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

6 May 2010

FDA approves Provenge for treating men with advanced prostate cancer

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new 'cancer vaccine' for treating men with advanced prostate cancer.

6 May 2010

New breakthrough: Seaweed for treatment of swine flu

In a groundbreaking new discovery a Tasmanian company has used seaweed as treatment for swine flu. The lab trials have been going on for the past nine months using the undaria seaweed (better know as wakame seaweed) harvested from waters at Triabunna, of Tasmania's East Coast.

5 May 2010

CPEX Pharmaceuticals reports record quarterly royalty revenues from Testim sales

CPEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. For the quarter CPEX reported revenues of $5.3 million and a net loss of $940,000.

5 May 2010

Pharmaceutical News

OSIR reports net income of $15.7M for fourth-quarter 2009 compared to net loss of $7.8M in 2008: MicroStockProfit.com

New research to improve effectiveness of nicotine vaccination for cigarette smokers

Prescription drug may have new use in boosting effectiveness of vaccines for bacterial, viral diseases

Labopharm's first-quarter fiscal 2010 revenues from product sales decrease $0.4M to $3.2M

Colonoscopy preparation drugs administered same day as procedure equally effective: Researchers

Cohera Medical reports top-line results from Tissuglu clinical trial

Pharmasset reports net loss of $16.1 million for fiscal second-quarter 2010

GENFIT announces milestone as compound developed in partnership enters the clinic

EpiCept provides update on corporate strategy, reports net loss of $4.5M for first-quarter 2010

Increase in antibiotic resistance found in soil microbes

New York federal court jury favors Merck in Maley FOSAMAX case

Investigations on Tylenol recall from House Committee

New combination eye drops effective in treating bacterial keratitis

Savient Pharmaceuticals' total revenues reach $1.1M in first-quarter 2010

Watson Laboratories files raloxifene hydrochloride tablet ANDA

BioScrip, drugstore.com form strategic partnership

Allos Therapeutics reports net loss of $20.5 million for first-quarter 2010

FDA approves Provenge for treating men with advanced prostate cancer

New breakthrough: Seaweed for treatment of swine flu

CPEX Pharmaceuticals reports record quarterly royalty revenues from Testim sales

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