Pozen shares soared Thursday on news that federal regulators have approved the method used to measure the effectiveness of an experimental arthritis treatment – clearing the path for the Chapel Hill company to seek permission to sell the drug in the United States.

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Symphogen AS has acquired the technology and programs of Receptor BioLogix Inc., the companies said Thursday.

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Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered that a prototype drug reduces heart enlargement, one of the most common causes of heart failure. Heart failure, which occurs when the heart can’t pump enough blood throughout the body, affects 5 million people in the United States. The condition contributes to 300,000 deaths each year.
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Researchers seeking ways to defeat malaria have found a way to get help from the parasite that causes the disease. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis stepped aside and let Plasmodium falciparum, one of the deadliest strains of malaria, do a significant portion of the genetic engineering work in their new study.
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Recent talks are about the recession, economic downturn, credit crunch and so on. However, the pharma giant Pfizer made a remarkable start in 2009. Pfizer acquires its rival big pharma company Wyeth for about $68bn for stock and cash. This acquisition is said to be the one of the biggest in the pharmaceutical history.
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Researchers may have found why women have an edge in keeping a healthier balance between the amount of salt they eat and excrete - at least before reaching menopause. Premenopausal women are known to have fewer problems with salt-sensitive hypertension and hypertension in general, but afterward their risks are essentially the same as men, says Dr. David Pollock, renal physiologist in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia.
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that the protein Stat3 plays a key role in regulating mitochondria, the energy-producing machines of cells. This discovery could one day lead to the development of new treatments for heart disease to boost energy in failing heart muscle or to master the abnormal metabolism of cancer. In the study, published online Jan.
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Researchers at the department of Microbiology of the University of Granada have carried out an analysis of the DNA extracted from different varieties of craft goat’s cheese, determining that most of them belong to the group of lactic bacteria, which could have important technological and functional properties, and be even beneficial for health. The doctoral thesis by Antonio M.
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What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy - leaving the door open to recurrence - from those that don’t? Weizmann Institute scientists developed an original method for imaging and analyzing many thousands of living cells to reveal exactly how a chemotherapy drug affects each one. For research student Ariel Cohen, together with Naama Geva-Zatorsky and Eran Eden in the lab of Prof.
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Researchers at Heidelberg University have found a molecular mechanism for anaphylactic shock. The activation of specific proteins in the cell walls of small blood vessels plays an important role. Suppressing the respective genes protects mice from the potentially fatal reactions of the immune and circulatory systems (anaphylactic shock) without disrupting circulatory regulation. This paves the way for the development of new drugs for the treatment and prevention of anaphylactic shock.
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