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Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire prescription and cosmetic products rights from Polish

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (NYSE: VRX) today announced that it has agreed to acquire the rights to several prescription and cosmetic dermatology products from a privately-held, Polish specialty pharmaceutical company.

30 Oct 2009

Eisai reports global Phase III study results of eribulin mesylate

Eisai Inc. today announced preliminary results from a recently completed Phase III study with eribulin mesylate (E7389), discovered and developed by the company, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

30 Oct 2009

Clinical data on the validation set 'Alzheimer patients versus healthy controls' for AclarusDx presented

ExonHit Therapeutics yesterday presented clinical data on the validation set “Alzheimer patients versus healthy controls” for AclarusDx™ (formerly EHT Dx21), its blood-based diagnostic test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at the 2nd Conference of Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) in Las Vegas, USA.

30 Oct 2009

Case Western Reserve awarded $14.7M to lead study on effects of lowering systolic blood pressure

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $14.7 million, nine-year contract from the National Institutes of Health to be one of five institutions to lead a trial to determine if lowering systolic blood pressure in hypertensive patients, without diabetes, to below the currently recommended level can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and kidney disease and slow cognitive decline.

30 Oct 2009

Research project to improve early diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injuries

With financial backing from a leading nonprofit supporter of military medical research, medical device manufacturer Neuro Kinetics, Inc. (www.neuro-kinetics.com) said today that it is collaborating with the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and three other military medical facilities in a comprehensive research project to improve early diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI).

30 Oct 2009

Dr. Heather Greene to receive 2009 C.A.R.E. Pharmacy Award

Eisai Inc. and the Alzheimer's Association announce today that Heather Greene, PharmD is the recipient of the 2009 C.A.R.E. Pharmacy Award.

30 Oct 2009

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Endo Pharmaceuticals

Endo Pharmaceuticals today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2009.

29 Oct 2009

Ipsen announces sales highlights for the first nine months of 2009

Ipsen reported its sales for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009.

29 Oct 2009

Regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved: Study

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment delayed is more than a year after the original spinal cord injury.

29 Oct 2009

Roche discloses the results of first Phase III clinical study using Taspoglutide

Ipsen (Paris:IPN), an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical group, today announced that its partner Roche has disclosed the results of a first phase III clinical study using Taspoglutide, the first human once weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue originating from Ipsen’s Research.

29 Oct 2009

Dysport drug for treatment of cervical dystonia launched in the United States

Ipsen, an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical group, today announced that Dysport® is now available in the United States for the treatment of cervical dystonia in adults.

29 Oct 2009

Tele-stroke network launched by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center launched a tele-stroke network to help patients in rural communities receive state-of-the-art stroke therapies.

29 Oct 2009

Transient ischemic attacks are treatable and preventable

An estimated 200,000 Americans experience TIAs each year, and more than one-third will later have full strokes. But TIAs, like strokes, are treatable and preventable.

29 Oct 2009

Gene variant may be the cause for bad driving: UC Irvine neuroscientists

Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.

29 Oct 2009

Child Neurology Foundation raises $30,000 during Infantile Spasms Awareness Week

The Child Neurology Foundation (CNF) today announced that $30,000 was raised during Infantile Spasms Awareness Week (October 11-17) that will go towards researching the cause and treatment of this ultra-rare form of epilepsy.

28 Oct 2009

Scientists test rapamycin's effectiveness at rescuing impaired nerve cells

Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and autism.

28 Oct 2009

Debilitating muscle weakness can linger long after hospital discharge

After decades of focusing on the management of respiratory failure, circulatory shock and severe infections that lead to extended stays in hospital intensive care units, critical care researchers are increasingly turning attention to what they believe is a treatable complication developed by many who spend days or weeks confined to an ICU bed: debilitating muscle weakness that can linger long after hospital discharge.

28 Oct 2009

Susceptibility to schizophrenia and autism may have common genetic fingerprints, says researchers

28 Oct 2009

Majority of doctors satisfied with the spiritual services provided by hospital chaplains: Survey

A national survey of physicians' experience with hospital chaplains found that the vast majority of doctors were satisfied with the spiritual services provided. Physicians in the Northeast and those with a dim view of religion's effects on patients, however, were less likely to be pleased.

27 Oct 2009

New data on KAPIDEX for nighttime heartburn in adults with non-erosive GERD presented at the 2009 ACG

New data being presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego showed that treatment with KAPIDEX(TM) (dexlansoprazole) delayed release capsules over a four-week period resulted in a statistically significant greater percentage of nights without heartburn in subjects with non-erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), compared to placebo (p<0.001).

27 Oct 2009

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire prescription and cosmetic products rights from Polish

Eisai reports global Phase III study results of eribulin mesylate

Clinical data on the validation set 'Alzheimer patients versus healthy controls' for AclarusDx presented

Case Western Reserve awarded $14.7M to lead study on effects of lowering systolic blood pressure

Research project to improve early diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injuries

Dr. Heather Greene to receive 2009 C.A.R.E. Pharmacy Award

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Endo Pharmaceuticals

Ipsen announces sales highlights for the first nine months of 2009

Regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved: Study

Roche discloses the results of first Phase III clinical study using Taspoglutide

Dysport drug for treatment of cervical dystonia launched in the United States

Tele-stroke network launched by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Transient ischemic attacks are treatable and preventable

Gene variant may be the cause for bad driving: UC Irvine neuroscientists

Child Neurology Foundation raises $30,000 during Infantile Spasms Awareness Week

Scientists test rapamycin's effectiveness at rescuing impaired nerve cells

Debilitating muscle weakness can linger long after hospital discharge

Susceptibility to schizophrenia and autism may have common genetic fingerprints, says researchers

Majority of doctors satisfied with the spiritual services provided by hospital chaplains: Survey

New data on KAPIDEX for nighttime heartburn in adults with non-erosive GERD presented at the 2009 ACG

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