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FDA Warns Public of Extortion Scam by FDA Impersonators

Posted by worldpharmanews 4 days ago (http://www.worldpharmanews.com)
Category: Research & Development | Tags: fda

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about a fraudulent scheme to extort money from consumers by callers who falsely identify themselves as "FDA special agents" or other FDA o read more »
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces $2.5 Billion in Cuts and Layoffs

Posted by cliffmz 6 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: bms layoffs downsizing job loss

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) made a presentation this morning at the Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference that showed the company plans on saving an additional $2.5 billion in “productivity initiatives. read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: FDA And DOJ File Court Papers In November 2008 To Shut Down Actavis Totowa LLC

Posted by tjlpa 6 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: fda actavis digitek drug-safety

Federal Government Seeks A Permanent Injunction Against This Drug Company That Produced Defective Digitek (Digoxin) Pills read more »
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Pfizer Launches Global Regenerative Medicine Research Unit

Posted by worldpharmanews 6 days ago (http://www.worldpharmanews.com)
Category: Research & Development | Tags: pfizer regenerative unit

Pfizer today announced the launch of a new research unit known as Pfizer Regenerative Medicine. This independent research unit will build on recent scientific progress in understanding the biology of read more »
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Rep. Dingell: Economic Stimulus Should Include NIH, Medicaid

Posted by alex 6 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs

Congress is about to meet in a lame duck session to try and help the economy by spending some extra money.
John Dingell, the Dem who chairs the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, hel read more »
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SEROQUEL XR and SEROQUEL Approved in Europe for New Indications

Posted by worldpharmanews 7 days ago (http://www.worldpharmanews.com)
Category: Product | Tags: astrazeneca seroquel

AstraZeneca has announced that the once-daily formulation SEROQUEL XR (quetiapine fumarate extended release tablets) and SEROQUEL (quetiapine fumarate) have been approved under the European Mutual Re read more »
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Express Scripts Offers $1M Rewards For Extortion

Posted by Pharmalot 8 days ago (http://www.pharmalot.com)
Category: Blogs

The pharmacy benefits manager says a small number of its clients have received letters threatening to expose the personal info of its members, and the threats are believed to be connected to an extor read more »
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EU project IMMIDIET warns: control hypertension in Europe

Posted by worldpharmanews 8 days ago (http://www.worldpharmanews.com)
Category: Research & Development | Tags: immidiet

An EU-funded population study has shown that hypertension, an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is a serious problem in Europe. The results of the IMMIDIET project indicate that high read more »
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Drug Injury Watch: When Will We Learn The Real Extent Of Generic Drug Recalls By Actavis And ETHEX

Posted by tjlpa 8 days ago (http://www.drug-injury.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: actavis ethex drug-recall generics

Numerous Instances Where Out-Of-Spec Oversized Pills With Double The API Dose Are Produced: How And When Did This Happen? read more »
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New Technology: Using Google to Track the Flu

Posted by cliffmz 8 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: google technology flu tracker

No matter what you may think of Google, you gotta love the brilliance and innovative moxy of the guys who run that company. In today’s New York Times, there was a story about a new web tool called Go read more »
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