Drug Law Weekly

- Former Senator Bob Dole announces growth in use of new Medicare Drug Discount card

Align Technology, Inc. - U.S. District Court finds lawsuit challenging digital dentistry patents invalid

Biophan Technologies, Inc. - Biomedical technology firm reaches milestone in intellectual property

DeRoyal - Ortholign design patent dispute resolved, lawsuit dismissed

Eye Health - Canadian Intellectual Property Office issues patent for lutein

General Data Company, Inc. - Patient identification wristbands offers error-free bar code and photo ID

GlaxoSmithKline - Paxil litigation settled with New York Attorney General's office

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Agency heads trying to find money for AIDS drug programs

Institute for OneWorld Health - Pharmaceutical company conducts infectious diarrhea landscape analysis

Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Specialty pharmaceutical company raises $3M in first round of financing

Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. - Food, drug law expert joins biopharmaceutical company's board of directors

Legal Issues - Former Representative Frank Ballance indicted on fraud charges

Legal Issues - Ten charged with fraud in fen-phen case in Jefferson County, Mississippi

Mayne Group Limited - European Patent Office grants patent for paclitaxel formulation

Promega - Federal judge dismisses case against Roche

AAAAI - Many people with asthma aren't taking the right amount of medication

Able Laboratories, Inc. - FDA grants approval for Dextroamphetamine Sulfate

Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Resistin plays a physiological role in hepatic insulin resistance

Allos Therapeutics - Phase III trial of Efaproxyn initiated at Avera Research Institute

American Council for Fitness and Nutrition - Fitness council urges parents to review packed lunches

American Medical Association - Bioterrorism preparedness dependent on action of health care systems

Ankara Numune Education/Research Hosp. - Ribavarin therapy effective against Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

AstraZeneca - FDA approves RHINOCORT AQUA for use in pregnant women

Avanir Pharmaceuticals - Positive results reported from phase III trial of Neurodex

Berlin Medical University - Cardiologists believe LDL should be lowered beyond current guidelines

Bioenvision, Inc. - New patient data generated in support of the clofarabine new drug application

Biota Holdings Limited - Drug discovery company announces 8% revenue growth over prior year

Bioterrorism - Nebraska gets $3.6 million for bioterrorism, $1.1 million for health centers

Bioterrorism - Texas to receive almost $64 million for bioterrorism defense

Birla Institute of Tech. and Science, Rajasthan - Novel aryl semicarbazone has potent antituberculous activity

Breast Cancer Internl. Res. Group - BCIRG 001 study is the basis for U.S. FDA approval of docetaxel

Brookhaven National Laboratory - CEM Odyssey System selected for SARS research

Brown University - Explosive growth seen in renal artery interventional procedures

Business Update - IMC Global, Cargill receive Canadian antitrust clearance for pending transaction

California Polytechnic State University - Zone diet does not confer any particular benefits

Cardiff University - Biochemical elements slant conformational changes in bioresponsive polymers

Carnegie Mellon University - FosGFP mice enable functional study of individual neurons

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Dendritic cell vaccine elicits antigen-specific T-cells against glioma

Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City - Study: Drug abuse may signal mental illness in pregnant women who smoke

Chonnam National University - Morning sickness associated with lower infant birthweight

Cisbio international - Company expands line of high-throughput screening solutions