Berlin -- Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, announced today that an orphan drug designation has been granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ciprofloxacin dry powder inhaler (DPI) for the management of chronic pulmonary infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic A s

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South San Francisco, CA -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) announced today that its fast skeletal muscle troponin activator, CK-2017357, has been granted orphan-drug designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the potential treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (C

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LAKE BLUFF, Ill. -- NeoPharm, Inc. (Other OTC: NEOL.PK), announced today that it has filed an orphan drug application with the Office of Orphan Products Development of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have Orphan Drug Designation granted to IL13-PE38QQR (IL13-PE) for the The

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Dancers from as far afield as Adelaide and Mildura will kick up their heels at the annual Hospital Charity Ball Weekend of DanceThe ball, in its third year, is organised by members of the Warrnambool Charity Dance and Warrnambool and District Old Time Dance ClubAfter the success of previous one-d

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Jackson Jinright only says one word, “Mama.&rdquoHis dad, Travis, encourages him to say, “Da-da” but Jackson only smiles and says, “Mama.&rdquo“He calls everybody he loves, ‘Mama,’” said his grandmother, Barbara Jinright of Troy. “And we love

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Shawn Ahrens remembers the Valentine's Day fire raging in the Cicero house, the flames suddenly shooting through the roof and knocking down the chimney. Dozens of bricks toppled on the firefighter's head and battered him until he was unconscious and buried alive"Next thing I know, I woke up in the

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As the Harvard women’s basketball team walked off the court Tuesday night, they knew that the rest of the year would be differentWith the season over, weekends would no longer be dominated by traveling and back-to-back competitions, and practices would not consume every free moment of time.

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The brooms were working overtime - it was a clean sweep for the SIU Edwardsville hockey team in Mid-America Collegiate Hockey Association postseason awardsSIUE walked away with four individual honors and four players were named to the all-league first teamSIUE head coach Larry Thatcher, who led t

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Barbara Lind of Bourne, owner of the Tin Man Diner in North Falmouth, knows about helping people in needShe formerly worked at a group home and regularly hosts free lunches for people with mental illness and other challengesBut these days the subject of Lind's advocacy is closer to homeShe says

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DEAD SEA, Jordan -- Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held here March 7-10, 2010Lymphoma is a cancer of th

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