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Vioxx Risks Could Have Been Detected Earlier: Study

ABC News | 4 hours 26 minutes ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart risks from taking Merck & Co Inc's painkiller Vioxx could have been detected more than three years before the company withdrew the drug from the market in September 2004, had the data been openly available, U.... (more)


Psychiatric Solutions formalizes military support efforts

Tennessean (Nashville), The | 4 hours 29 minutes ago

Psychiatric Solutions Inc. has launched a program that expands behavioral health services members of the military and their families receive at its facilities.... (more)


Essent Healthcare to consolidate services at Texas hospital

Tennessean (Nashville), The | 4 hours 29 minutes ago

Essent Healthcare said that it is consolidating acute care services offered by its Paris Regional Medical Center in Paris, Texas, at one campus.... (more)


Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Yahoo! | 5 hours 33 minutes ago

MARIETTA, Pa. ? Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.... (more)


Medtronic, Macy's Options Attract Bulls

TheStreet.com | 5 hours 39 minutes ago

OptionMonster co-founder Pete Najarian provides options picks Monday, Wednesday and Friday in TheStreet.com's Deep in the Money Calls newsletter.... (more)


Oncolytics says it sold $12.8M in stock and options to fund trial of cancer drug Reolysin

Sun (Baltimore), The | 6 hours 14 minutes ago

Canadian drug developer Oncolytics Biotech Inc. said Monday it raised $12.8 million through a sale of stock and options.... (more)


Fonar Shares Drop on Volume Spike

TheStreet.com | 6 hours 14 minutes ago

MELVILLE, N.Y. (TheStreet) -- Fonar Corp. (FONR Quote) shares tumbled Monday on above-average volume after the medical equipment maker reported a third-quarter loss that swelled from a year earlier.... (more)


$75M verdict unsealed in Prempro-cancer case

Seattle Times, The | 6 hours 16 minutes ago

A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug.... (more)


NOVEMBER 24, 2009 Analysis Finds Vioxx's Heart Attack Risk in 2001

Barron's (subscription required) | 6 hours 20 minutes ago

There was strong evidence showing Vioxx significantly increased the risk of heart attacks and deaths at least three years before the painkiller was pulled from the market, according to researchers who conducted a new analysis of clinical-trial data on the drug.... (more)


GSK withdraws regulatory application for additional use of Avodart

Drug Store News | 6 hours 23 minutes ago

By Alaric DeArmentLONDON (Nov. 23) British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is temporarily withdrawing its regulatory approval application seeking an additional use for a cancer drug in order to update it, the company announced Monday.... (more)


Oncolytics completes $12.8M stock and warrant sale

Miami Herald, The | 6 hours 26 minutes ago

NEW YORK -- Canadian drug developer Oncolytics Biotech Inc. said Monday it raised $12.8 million through a sale of stock and options.... (more)


Spray can prevent premature ejaculation: study

Yahoo! | 6 hours 27 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? A spray that numbs the penis can help prevent premature ejaculation, doctors reported on Thursday, and drug maker Sciele Pharma Inc, a division of Japan's Shionogi, plans to file for U.S. approval next year.... (more)




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