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AstraZeneca wins first round in Teva litigation (AP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:37:46 +0000

AP - AstraZeneca PLC won the first round of a legal fight over the release of a generic version of its child asthma medication Pulmicort Respules by rival Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. on Thursday as it also unveiled job cuts in Europe.

AstraZeneca wins first round in Teva litigation (AP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:37:46 +0000

HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks (AP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:01:11 +0000

AP - Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn’t know it, scientists said Thursday.

Pfizer drops bid to sell Viagra over the counter in Europe (AFP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:10:47 +0000

AFP - Pfizer has dropped its bid to market its potency pill Viagra over the counter in Europe, the US pharmaceutical giant announced Thursday.

AstraZeneca to axe 1,400 jobs in Europe, shuts three plants (AFP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:20 +0000

AFP - Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca said Thursday it would slash 1,400 jobs by 2013 as it shuts factories in Belgium, Spain and Sweden.

Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP)

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:52:06 +0000

AP - D’Zhana Simmons says she felt like a “fake person” for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. “But I know that I really was here,” the 14-year-old said, “and I did live without a heart.”

Surgeon who did first US heart transplant dies (AP)

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:08:58 +0000

AP - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation’s first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.

Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP)

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:29:37 +0000

Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate (AP)

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:30:52 +0000

AP - The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.

Big Pharma seeks to shape U.S. healthcare debate (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:07:44 +0000

Reuters - Major drugmakers want their voices heard as U.S. Democrats, traditionally critics of the industry, start crafting plans to expand health insurance coverage and cut the escalating costs of care.