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View Article  EMEA filing for first vaccine using Soluvia microinjection system
18-Feb-2008 - The first European approval application for a vaccine delivered via a new intradermal (ID) microinjection system developed by BD (Becton, Dickinson & Company) has been filed by Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccines division of the Sanofi-Aventis group.

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View Article  FDA evaluated wrong Chinese drug factory
Producer of heparin ingredient went uninspected because of name mix-up

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View Article  EMEA filing for first vaccine using Soluvia microinjection system
18-Feb-2008 - The first European approval application for a vaccine delivered via a new intradermal (ID) microinjection system developed by BD (Becton, Dickinson & Company) has been filed by Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccines division of the Sanofi-Aventis group.

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In-Pharmatechnologist.com
View Article  F.D.A. Seeks to Broaden Range of Use for Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.

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View Article  China Didn’t Check Drug Supplier, Files Show
An ingredient in a blood thinner linked to four deaths was made at an uncertified plant in China that was not inspected.

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View Article  GEN News Highlights - 2/15/08
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Feb 14 2008, 11:55 AM EST
Evotec to Provide $37M to CHDI in Collaboration Extension
Research fees will drive search for novel drug candidates for the treatment of Huntington's disease until 2010.Full Story

Feb 14 2008, 12:08 PM EST
Alexion Purchases Patents Related to Approved Drug from OMRF for $10M
Deal covers complement-inhibition inventions and will dismiss claims and counterclaims between the organizations.Full Story

Feb 13 2008, 11:27 AM EST
Dutch Center and GeneGo to Collaborate on Toxicity Testing
The five-year, €25 million project will use firm's platforms for earlier identification of xenobiotic adverse effects.Full Story

Feb 13 2008, 11:25 AM EST
Chemizon Invests in KRIBB to Form Spin-Out
The new biopharmaceutical company will conduct R&D activities in oncology, CNS, and infectious disease indications.Full Story

Feb 12 2008, 01:11 PM EST
Dyax and Sanofi-Aventis Ink Oncology Antibody Deal Worth $500M
Terms include worldwide, exclusive rights to a preclinical candidate and nonexclusive license to phage-display technology.Full Story

Feb 12 2008, 01:09 PM EST
Scientists Uncover More Gene-Protein Binding Events than Previously Expected
PLoS Biology paper also reports that most of the detected bindings are nonfunctional.Full Story

Feb 12 2008, 01:07 PM EST
BG Medicine to Mine Danish Population Research for Cardiovascular Biomarkers
Copenhagen General Population Study offers opportunity for discovery of blood biomarkers in individuals who suffer a heart attack without prior history of cardiovascular disease.Full Story

Feb 12 2008, 01:02 PM EST
Dana-Farber Allies With Merck & Co. on Cancer Drug R&D
Collaboration hopes to raise the current 95% failure rate in clinical trials through the use of genomic information.Full Story

Feb 11 2008, 11:43 AM EST
Newron Acquires Hunter-Fleming for $11.6M Upfront
Milestones for success of CNS candidates could total over $24 million.Full Story

Feb 11 2008, 11:36 AM EST
Scientists Find Cellular Receptor for HIV
Virus uses alpha 4 beta 7 to create a stable junction between immune cells, according to Nature Immunology paper.Full Story

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View Article  Proposed Biosimilars Legislation Makes Progress
Washington, DC (Feb 8)—A follow-on biologics approval pathway may be on the way. US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt accepted Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) suggestion that the US Food and Drug Administration and Congress work together to formulate legislation for such a pathway.

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Pharmaceutical Technology
View Article  Baxter Voluntarily Recalls Heparin Lots
Deerfield, IL and Rockville, MD (Feb. 11)—Baxter Healthcare Corporation is providing an update to its January 2008 heparin sodium injection 1000 units/mL 10 and 30 mL multi-dose vial voluntary recall of nine lots, which the company initiated as a precautionary measure due to an increase in reports of adverse reactions that may be associated with the drug.

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Pharmaceutical Technology
View Article  China plant implicated in heparin scare "never" inspected by FDA
14-Feb-2008 - Questions are hanging over the role of a Chinese manufacturing facility in the Baxter heparin scare after it has emerged that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never inspected the facility.

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View Article  Baxter suspends production of heparin after deaths
13-Feb-2008 - Baxter International has suspended the production of its blood-thinning drug heparin in multi-dose vials, following the deaths of four patients in the USA who were given the drug in high doses.

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