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Pfizer Inc. unveiled its attempt to quiet consumer drug-advertising critics on Thursday by pledging not to directly promote any new product to patients for at least six months and to only target adult audiences ...

TPELIER , A Ferrisburgh attorney has agreed to pay nearly $80,000 to settle charges that he bought stock in a company he represented after learning the company was about to be sold, the Securities and Exchange ...

This kiss has indeed lingered. The woman in an iconic photograph of an American sailor rapturously kissing a nurse during a V-J Day parade unveiled a sculpture of the clinch yesterday, saying she still doesn't ...

New York drug giant Pfizer Inc. has adopted a series of changes in the way it advertises to consumers that go beyond the industry's new voluntary guidelines.3.1

The worldwide boom in flat-screen televisions, DVD recorders and MP3 players has helped to boost ... Chemicals Ex-Bayer staff charged A US jury on Wednesday indicted two former executives of Bayer AG, the German chemicals producer, over an international conspiracy to fix the price of rubber ...2.7

The PMI Market Risk Index, a national survey produced quarterly by PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., Walnut, Calif., ranks the seven-county Pittsburgh area as having the lowest risk of a decline in housing prices ...3.1

James F. Lynch, chairman of Xspedius Communications LLC, will take over as interim president and chief executive after the resignation of Mark W. Senda, who had led the company in O'Fallon, Mo., for the last ...2.7

Four-time world champion Allen Johnson is one step away from being the first track athlete to win five world titles in the same event after he breezed into the final of the 110 metres hurdles at the world ...2.9

Medical products manufacturer Hospira Inc. Thursday said it may face either distributing its own ... One-time charges included $10 million for expenses related to building its own infrastructure worldwide and about $13.4 million related to the sale of a Salt Lake City, Utah, manufacturing plant.2.7

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, announced today that it has signed an agreement with the State of California Department of Health ...2.7

Biotech company will invest its second round of funding in combating antibacterial resistance ... Food and Drug Administration, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, malaria, and childhood ear infections are just some of the diseases that have become hard to treat with antibiotic drugs.2.7

One in six American high school students has asthma, and many will have a breathing attack this year while in the classroom.2.7

AXP NASDAQ SYMBOL : AXCA MONT SAINT-HILAIRE, QC, Aug. 11 /CNW Telbec/ - Axcan Pharma Inc.2.7

On the first day of his official visit to El Salvador, Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan today met with President Elias Antonio Saca at the Presidential Residence, in a private meeting that covered ...2.7

More precisely, it was a day on which individual investors received yet another lesson in the law of "no free lunches." Whilst researching past financial performance for a column discussing the H1 2005 results ...2.7

LAVAL, QC, Aug. 11 /CNW/ - Warnex Inc. today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005.2.7

Dyax Corp. announced today its presentation at the Drug Discovery Technology Conference , highlighting the Company's discovery that antibody targeting of Tie-1 leads to the inhibition of primary tumor growth in ...2.7

Botry-zen is slicing the number of shares on issue as it prepares for its second capital-raising programme of more than $4 million.2.7

The completed sequence of the rice genome could help speed up the development of new varieties for the world's poor.2.7

Scientists discover how Nipah and Hendra viruses enter human and animal cells Two research teams funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified how Nipah and Hendra viruses are able to get into ...2.7

The Board of Directors for Genome Prairie are pleased to announce the appointment of Jerome Konecsni as President and Chief Executive Officer to succeed Dr.2.7

But if he says that it is impossible it is almost certainly wrong. When Clarke wrote those words a generation ago, how many people thought that in the early years of the 21st century farmers would routinely ...2

Pfizer Inc. pledged Thursday not to advertise new medicines directly to consumers for at least six months and only to promote its impotency treatment Viagra on TV to predominantly adult audiences.5.2

CV Therapeutics Inc.'s regadenoson to boost coronary blood flow for better myocardial perfusion imaging hit the primary endpoint in the first of two pivotal Phase III studies, and the company is awaiting ...4.1

Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary, Barr Laboratories, Inc., has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its application to manufacture and market ...3.1

A local medical researcher has discovered a way of treating osteoporosis that is making a big splash in the scientific community and should provide women with a more successful, economic way to treat bone loss.2.7

AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest AIDS organization in the US which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Central America and Asia -- including three clinics in Honduras: in San Pedro ...2.7

Microbix Biosystems Inc. today announced a 54-per-cent increase in revenue and profitability for the third quarter ended June 30, 2005.2.7

As the $11 billion medical arm of General Electric Co., GE Healthcare Technologies is a world-renowned maker of diagnostic imaging equipment.2.9

Next year is when the new Medicare drug program takes effect, giving generic pharmaceutical ... Go to NEXT PAGE Nine Long-Shot Stocks That Could Double (TheStreet.2.7

Deerfield-based Walgreen Co., Aetna Inc. and MedImpact Healthcare Systems Inc. have agreed to a deal under which they will pass along drugmaker rebates and provide more pricing information to help clients cut ...4

DEESIDE-based medical diagnostics and pharmaceuticals group Provalis is to seek a new chief executive after the resignation of Philip Gould, who had been with it for more than seven years.2.7

This Michigan State School of Packaging grad says he's not stopping until he's 80.2.9

Aquapharm Bio + Discovery Ltd , a leading UK marine biotechnology company developing, amongst other things, anti-infective drug candidates from marine natural products, is pleased to announce the completion ...2.7

A patent fight led by an Orange County law firm could add up to a windfall for a generic drug maker ... Jan Weir, a partner at Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth LLC of Newport Beach, led Amphastar's legal team.2.7