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21 hours ago ago from A World to Win

Swine flu is big business for pharmaceuticals like Roche, the manufacturer of the antiviral drug Tamiflu and the other giant corporations now producing vaccines to sell to desperate governments. Whether the products actually work is another matter and getting the trial data is nigh on impossible. Big Pharma is effectively a secret society that owes its gigantic profits to the National Health Service in Britain and its equivalent in other ...

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Pfizer conflict controversy continues

10 hours ago ago from Medical Ethics blog

The controversial appointment of Pfizer Canada executive Bernard Prigent to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research was the lead item on the CBC s national morning radio show, The Current . A podcast of the show is available. In the show, Francoise Baylis , Canada Research Chair in bioethics at Dalhousie University, says it is impossible for Prigent to avoid a conflict of interest in the new posting because his job as a Pfizer ...

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13 hours ago ago from Pharma Marketer

There's a data-rich paper out in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery on the history of drug innovation in the industry. I'll get to its real conclusions in another upcoming post, but some of the underlying data are worth a post of their own.

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12 hours ago ago from LegalMalpracticeAttorney.net

The Court Confronts a Grievous Injury For years, the Bush administration has worked with industry to try to water down the public’s protections by preventing states from enforcing rules and regulations tougher than those required by the federal government. It has tried to apply this policy of pre-emption to rules issued by a slew of federal agencies and is now asking the Supreme Court to approve its improper ideological stand when ...

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17 hours ago ago from FanHouse

CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent to the company entitled “Sulfoalkyl Ether Cyclodextrin Compositions and Methods of Preparation Thereof.” This patent, along with other previously issued technology patents, will provide broader protection for CyDex’s Captisol ® technology until 2028. The patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,629,331) ...

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Absorption Systems Appoints Director of Scientific Operations

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Absorption Systems , a leader in testing drugs for ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity), today announced that the company has hired Ramesh B. Bambal, Ph.D., as Director of Scientific Operations. Dr. Bambal joins Absorptions Systems with considerable pharmaceutical industry experience in drug discovery and preclinical development. While at Absorption Systems, Dr. Bambal will oversee drug discovery, business ...

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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Ranked among Orange County’s Top Work Places for 2009

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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGM: SPPI), a commercial stage biotechnology company with a primary focus in oncology, today announced that it has been ranked by the Orange County Register as one of Orange County’s Top Work Places for 2009. “We are pleased to be recognized as one of the Top Work Places in Orange County,” said Rajesh C. Shrotriya, MD, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals. “We believe that ...

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