Nabi Biopharmaceuticals stockholders approved a licensing deal with GlaxoSmithKline PLC, giving it the first chance at owning the rights to the Rockville biotech’s last remaining product, a smoking cessation vaccine called NicVax.

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Like bugs scurrying out from under an overturned rock, the perpetuators of health care fraud in South Florida are finding new schemes to hide behind to siphon off public dollars.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $7 million to provide lawmakers in Southeast Asia with evidence so they can raise taxes on cigarettes in various countries.

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InterMune Inc. formally asked European regulators to approve the use of the drug pirfenidone for treatment of patients with lung-scarring idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis - that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent addiction - is based on a rodent study demonstrating that blocking new growth of specific brain nerve cells increases vulnerability for cocaine addiction and relapse…
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A gene signature, first identified in mouse colon cancer cells, may help identify patients at risk of colon cancer recurrence, according to a recent study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers…
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A team of Michigan State University scientists - using a new cooling method they created - has uncovered the inner workings of a key iron-containing enzyme, a discovery that could help researchers develop new medicines or understand how enzymes repair DNA. Taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, known as TauD, is a bacterial enzyme that is important in metabolism…
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Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have discovered how cells communicate with each other during times of cellular injury. The findings shed new light on how the body repairs itself when organs become diseased, through small particles known as microvesicles, and offers hope for tissue regeneration…
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A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable of triggering an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work…
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface…
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