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Drug makers cut back on ads - Honolulu Advertiser
NEW YORK — This could make media owners sick: Pharmaceutical ad spending they count on to exceed $5 billion a year is losing its potency. Two recent reports say drugmakers cut ad spending in the first six months of this year. TNS Media Intelligence
Source: www.honoluluadvertiser.com

Medtronic's Third-Generation Endeavor(R) Resolute Drug-Eluting Stent - MSN MoneyCentral
Of those treated with the Endeavor ® Resolute drug-eluting stent (DES) from Medtronic, Inc. MDT , in the RESOLUTE IDE trial only two patients required repeat procedures – a remarkably low 1.5 percent rate of target lesion revascularization (TLR
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

MOVES could revolutionize medevacs - Marine Corp Times
The Corps is developing an emergency care system that will remove explosive oxygen canisters from battlefield aircraft and potentially revolutionize civilian emergency medicine, Marine officials said. Pending approval by the Food and Drug
Source: www.marinecorpstimes.com

Family Blames Soldier's Suicide on Anti-Malaria Drug - Washington Post
Susana Ferro, shown with her son Juan "John" Torres before he deployed for Afghanistan, blames the anti-malaria drug Lariam for his 2004 suicide. (Courtesy of Susana Ferro) CHICAGO -- Juan Torres didn't believe that his son, Army Reservist Juan "John
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

States ask baby product companies to avoid BPA - Newsday
HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut 's attorney general on Monday said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was "asleep at the switch" by failing to take action against companies that use the chemical bisphenol A in making baby bottles and baby formula
Source: www.newsday.com

Abbott's XIENCE V(TM) Drug Eluting Stent Outperforms TAXUS(R) in Key - MSN MoneyCentral
New Analysis of SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III Data Confirms Patients Treated with XIENCE V Are at Lower Risk of Experiencing Death, a Heart Attack or a Repeat Procedure Compared to TAXUS(R) at Two Years WASHINGTON , Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Data
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Ban on baby bottles with chemical - Times of India
TORONTO: Canada has declared a chemical widely used in food packaging a toxic substance and will move to ban the sale in Canada of plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A. The toxic classification, issued in Saturday's Canada Gazette, makes
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Family faults antimalaria drug in suicide - Boston Globe
CHICAGO - Juan Torres did not believe that his son, Army Reservist Juan "John" Torres, had killed himself in Afghanistan just weeks before he was to return home in July 2004. He figured that John, 25, was murdered because of his opposition to the
Source: www.boston.com

BioTrove Announces Agreement with BD to Boost Drug Discovery Research - Forbes
BioTrove, Inc. today announced an exclusive alliance with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) to provide customers with a complete solution for sample preparation and data analysis of high-throughput in vitro ADME assays. BD CYP450 Inhibition
Source: www.forbes.com

Sector Snap: Diabetes drug developers gain ground - Forbes
A regulatory delay for Takeda Pharmaceuticals developing diabetes drug alogliptin helped boost shares of competitor Merck & Co. Monday, highlighting the competitive nature of diabetes drug development within the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors
Source: www.forbes.com