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December 13, 2009
Lawsuits claim Wyeth's menopausal hormone drugs cause breast cancer

Women across the United States allege in lawsuits that they developed breast cancer and other...

December 13, 2009
Novo Nordisk inks deal with ZymoGenetics

Novo Nordisk has signed a deal with a U.S. biotech company to license a drug...

December 10, 2009
Gov. Mitt Romney to deliver keynote address at Sixth Annual Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit

One of the nation's largest specialty pharmacy channel management organizations will have former Massachusetts governor...

December 10, 2009
Sandoz launches topical psoriasis treatment

Sandoz has launched its version of a topical drug used to treat psoriasis of the...

December 9, 2009
Centric Health Resources receives URAC accreditation

Healthcare-accrediting organization URAC has awarded specialty pharmacy accreditation to Centric Health Resources, Centric announced....

December 9, 2009
IMS Health develops product for specialty pharmacy market

Healthcare market research company IMS Health announced Monday the availability of a new analytical product...

December 9, 2009
Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy to participate in MS study

Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy, a subsidiary of Walgreens, was chosen to participate in the "Therapy Optimization...

December 8, 2009
CVS Caremark closes specialty pharmacy operations in Rockville, Md.

CVS Caremark has confirmed that it is closing its specialty pharmacy operations in Rockville, Md.,...

December 8, 2009
Former Wyeth executive joins VaxInnate

A former Wyeth executive will join the board of a company biotech company that develops...

December 7, 2009
Genentech, Biogen Idec cancer therapy study yields positive results

A combination of a biotech drug with a chemotherapy treatment helped patients with chronic lymphocytic...

December 7, 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Personalized medicine market to grow 11% annually

Personalized medicine, which targets individualized treatment and care based on personal and genetic variation, is...

December 7, 2009
Teva seeks FDA approval for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia biosimilar

Teva has filed a regulatory approval application with the Food and Drug Administration for a...

December 6, 2009
Celgene Corp. to acquire Gloucester Pharmaceuticals

Celgene Corp. plans to acquire Cambridge, Mass.-based Gloucester Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth more than...

December 6, 2009
FDA rejects EMD Serono's MS drug

The Food and Drug Administration has declined to file a regulatory approval application from the...

December 6, 2009
Santarus gets FDA approval for new PPI

Within a week of the switch approval of Zegerid OTC, specialty biopharmaceutical company Santarus, which...

December 6, 2009
Treatment for relapsed multiple myeloma may be 'promising', study says

Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Facet Biotech Corp. have gotten “potentially promising” data from...

December 3, 2009
Nearly 100 new HIV treatments are in development, PhRMA says

Nearly 100 new drugs are in development as treatments and vaccines for HIV, according to...

December 2, 2009
Pfizer, Protalix to develop Gaucher’s disease treatment

Pfizer and Protalix have entered an agreement potentially worth more than $100 million to develop...

December 1, 2009
Watson completes acquisition of Arrow Group

Generic drug maker Watson Pharmaceuticals has completed its $1.05 billion acquisition of Arrow Group, the...

November 30, 2009
Express Scripts completes acquisition of WellPoint's NextRx subsidiaries

An acquisition of a health benefits company's subsidiaries by a pharmacy benefit manager will integrate...

November 29, 2009
FDA approves Agriflu

Another flu vaccine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration....

November 29, 2009
RXi Pharmaceuticals, medical school to collaborate for ALS cure

Three philanthropic organizations and a drug company will work together to fight a debilitating disease...

November 29, 2009
Sanofi, Intelliject sign licensing agreement for auto injector

The U.S. subsidiary of French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis will work with a Richmond, Va.-based company...

November 23, 2009
Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy expands to Southern California

Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy last week announced the opening of its branch in San Bernardino, Calif....

November 22, 2009
European Medicines Agency advisory committee gives 'negative opinion' of expanded use of Erbitux

An advisory committee in Europe has given a thumbs-down to efforts by Merck KGaA to...