A Denmark court has ruled in Pfizer’s favor in challenges to two of its patents covering atorvastatin, the active ingredient in Lipitor. (PFE)

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Shares of BioDelivery Sciences International soared for a second straight day Friday, the day after the company announced positive news about its lead experimental drug.

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GTx Inc. CEO Mitchell Steiner will ring Nasdaq’s opening bell on Tuesday, Sept. 2.

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Claes Wahlestedt, who heads Scripps Florida’s efforts to develop drugs for diseases of the central nervous system, has launched new company with business consultant and longtime friend Joe Collard.

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A Mylan Inc. subsidiary will immediately release a generic version of the Alzheimer’s disease drug Razadyne after it won a patent challenge and received regulatory approval, the Canonsburg-based drugmaker said. (MYL)

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Pharmacy Self Care, in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline has launched a special health-promotion initiative on the herpes virus. Herpes viruses are second only to influenza and cold viruses as a cause of human viral disease with eight herpes virus types are known to infect humans. This health campaign is a comprehensive herpes virus education and training resource for pharmacists, pharmacy staff and pharmacy consumers.
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Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions.
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MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, released the Summer 2008 Brandjacking Index™, reporting that brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands, endangering consumers via a supply chain compromised by the sale of questionable prescription drugs through dubious online pharmacies and exchange sites.
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in mice that the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like behavior. In addition, the researchers found that antidepressants and exercise use the same biochemical pathway to exert their effects. These results might help explain some unknown mechanisms of antidepressants and provide a new direction for developing drugs to treat depression, said Dr.
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Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions.
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