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Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines from the week of November 13, 2006
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- Back to its core, aaiPharma growing in Morrisville
- Drug benefit firm scores
- Reversal of fortune: Drug results drive Vertex growth
- Gilead cuts HIV drug prices in poorest nations
- Life science firms bringing tax windfall to U.S.
- Vioxx verdict could cause local tremors
- Locals respond with hurricane relief efforts
- PDL makes strides in treating heart failure
- Voyager files for IPO, aims for $129M
- A&G raises $2M to test cancer screening products
- Investors feeling fussy as Martek reports 3Q loss
- Senior executive to leave Advancis
- Lipid sees success in monkey virus trials
- Cargill to buy Degussa unit for $670M
- Geron plans stock offering, Merck buying $18M in shares
- Emory administrator joins UAB as dean of graduate school
- Edwards board OKs stock buyback
- Alkermes gets nod to market schizophrenia drug in Italy
- AIDS groups raise money for hurricane victims
- Glaxo to pay $150M to settle fraudulent pricing case
- Encore hits 25M mark
- Spherix sweetener nears European approval
- Pennsylvania pharmaceutical company extends contract with DPT
- LabCorp launches genomic testing
- Wake Forest names new director for research park
- VaxGen will sell part of Korean company
- Kendle official to oversee expansion efforts
- Medtronic names new neurologics chief
- UC to study diseases that blind
- Merck starts mag
- FDA extends review of drug by Cephalon, partner
- Northeastern wins $3.3 Cancer Institute grant
- Praecis Pharma reports promising early data on lymphoma drug
- UTEK's latest alliance focuses on life science technologies
- Myogen completes offering
- SLU, Siga to develop smallpox drug
- GSK, Roche to test osteoporosis drug
- Genzyme test identifies patients for lung-cancer therapies
- Sunesis stock falls 7 percent in IPO
- Stanford gets $6.25M lymphoma grant
- Hepatitis warning issued for gaming expo attendees
- Tempe student's diabetic testing the focus of lawsuit
- Medtronic receives FDA approval for bone growth protein
- Hopkins to study how stem cells could help hearts
- Hopkins scientist lands $2.5M to study viruses
- Target to sell pink products to support breast cancer research
- Survey: Minnesota seniors slow to join new Medicare drug plan
- Glaxo to market Allergan's Botox in Japan, China
- Australian drug firm to pay $104M for Control Delivery Systems
- PolyMedica sells women's health unit to Amerifit for $45M
- Emory, Georgia Tech named 'National Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence'
- Local biotech raises $8.5M
- MGI Pharma completes Guilford deal
- Dynavax Technologies to sell 4M shares
- Codexis reaches second Pfizer deal milestone
- Benitec drops patent suit against Nucleonics
- CU researcher receives Nobel Prize
- UMass-Amherst microbiologist lands $21.8M research grant
- Express Scripts to push generic prescriptions next year
- UT receives $3.5M for drug development
- Endo shareholder's stock on the block
- State Street German unit to manage funds for French pension
- UNC to participate in $144.3M cancer nanotechnology initiative
- EntreMed's arthritis drug shows promise
- Chicago fund to buy $20M of Ceptor stock
- Hutchinson cancer center gets $18M grant
- GenVec HIV vaccine reaches Phase II
- FDA to review drug; GSK to pay Pozen $20M
- Court halts Big Isle algae project
- Surface Logix completes first human trial for new drug
- ResCare calls remaining senior notes for redemption
- Guidant reports more device failures
- Nastech developing nasal insulin formula
- Advanced Neuromodulation being sold in $1.3B deal
- Local biotech firm gets order from Lehigh University
- Sona MedSpa opens Greensboro location
- Altus Pharmaceuticals files for IPO
- GenVec looks to sell cell-therapy program
- Uroplasty shares soar on device approval
- Genentech inks another brain cancer deal
- State would borrow $1B for Stem Cell Institute under Paterson plan
- Alinea Pharmaceuticals lands $45M first round
- Broussard named president of US Oncology
- Discovery Labs resubmits drug candidate
- UMass opens Biologic Laboratories expansion
- CareStat acquired by Ohio trust
- Idenix Pharmaceuticals to sell 6.6M shares
- BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' Q3 revenue hit by NIH grant reduction
- Sapiens' boss stepping down; new CEO named
- Charles River plans lab closing to cut costs
- Nabi plunges on failed staph vaccine
- SAFC Biosciences inks agreement with ProBioGen
- 'Compounding' pharmacy opens
- FDA approves Genentech drug in combo use
- Advancis ready for another Phase III trial
- Sirna loss drops
- Merck wins in second Vioxx trial
- Revenue up, net loss down at GenVec
- Merck prevails in case against Vioxx
- St. Jude gets gov't OK to buy Advanced Neuromodulation
