More should be done across Europe to ensure that people with rare forms of cancer are not denied access to the best possible treatment, say the organizers of a major European cancer conference to be held in Milan on 9 and 10 March 2010"People with rare diseases have the same right to receive prope

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London, UK -- Ark Therapeutics Group plc (AKT: LSE) ("Ark" or "the Company"), announces that it has filed documentation with the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") in relation to its request for re-examination of the marketing approval application ("MAA") for Cerepro®, Ark's novel gene based Th

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HAYWARD, Calif. -- Aradigm Corporation (OTCBB:ARDM) (the "Company") today announced that it dosed the first patient in the U.S. as part of its ORBIT-1 (Once-daily Respiratory Bronchiectasis Inhalation Treatment) trial, an international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b study T

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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers along with collaborators from Life Technologies are reporting on the application of a new approach for sequencing RNA to study cancer tumors. Their findings from a proof-of-principle study on oral carcinomas appear in the current issue of PLoS One, the V

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NEW YORK -- reco® jeans (www.recojeans.com), the leading manufacturer of true recycled denim jeans, today announced the company will create a special denim ribbon in support of the Global Genes Project (www.globalgenesproject.org), an initiative designed to raise awareness about the prevalence

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FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:GILD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Cayston(R)(aztreonam for inhalation solution) as a treatment to improve respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with Cayston'

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RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mirapex ER® (pramipexole dihydrochloride) extended-release tablets, a new once-daily treatment option for the signs and symptoms of early idiopathic MI

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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, in the Crohn's disease drug market, the premium price of Centocor Ortho Biotech/Janssen-Cilag's Stelara and Abbott's briakinumab will drive robust sales

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the first patient has received an initial dose in a Phase 1/2 clinical study combining MM-121 with Tarceva® (erlotinib) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLCThis is the first of multiple trials that Merrimack

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PROVIDENCE, RI -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded a two-year development grant to researchers with Hasbro Children's Hospital and the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center to better understand the role behavioral health plays in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a The $

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