Drug Law Weekly

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Chip maker acquires gene regulation analysis company

American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc. - Medicare payment value corrected for Her Option cryoablation therapy

Correctional Health - Jury awards $1.2 million to two men sickened in jail infection

Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Patent granted for methods to correlate genetics with drug safety and efficacy

Information Technology - DecisionPath inks contract with U.S. Social Security Administration

Insmed Incorporated - Biopharmaceutical company comments on recent actions by Tercica, Inc.

Legal Issues - Wyoming advocacy group sues state over treatment of mentally ill patients

NMT Medical, Inc. - Patient enrollment for migraine intervention initiated

OccuLogix, Inc. - Pharma company enrolls patients in age-related macular degeneration trial

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corporation - Pharma company announces new hires

Personnel - Former FDA staffers Dan Troy and Coleen Klasmeier join law firm

SCOLR Pharma, Inc. - Pharma company names new hire to newly created positions

Vasomedical, Inc. - Medicare payment for EECP therapy for cardiovascular disease increases

Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C - Texas law firm launches biotechnology practice, hires 4 pharma legal experts

ARUP Inst. for Clinical & Experimental Pathology - Microsphere-based immunoassay suitable for detection of ENA autoantibodies

Acambis plc - Fast track status granted for ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine

Adolor Corporation - U.S. FDA seeks more data on phase III trial of alvimopan in postoperative ileus

Aerocrine, Inc. - Aerocrine NO monitor cleared by U.S. FDA for monitoring asthma therapy

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - GeneCare Research Institute granted licenses to IP for RNAi therapeutics

American College of Sports Medicine, Philadelpia - Drug prophylaxis recommended even for physically active postmenopausal women

Artes Medical Inc. - Request granted for re-examination of competitor's injectable skin filler patent

AstraZeneca - Council recommends approval of Crestor in Japan

AtheroGenics, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm announces proposed offering of notes

Avanir Pharmaceuticals - Orally active asthma/allergy drug candidate subject of journal article

Avant Immunotherapeutics - $2M milestone payment issued for marketing approval of Rotarix

Ben Gurion University Negev, Beer Sheva - Ciliary protein phosphorylation regulated by Ca²⁺ and nitric oxide

BioAlliance Pharma - Preliminary phase III data reported on miconazole Lauriad

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. - Bioral drug delivery may reduce GI damage caused by NSAIDs, aspirin

BioXell, Milan - Antigen-based immuno-intervention in human autoimmune diseases reviewed

Biosite Incorporated - PMA application filed for Triage Stroke Panel

Biotechnology Industry Organization - Former governor James Greenwood assumes presidency of biotechnology association

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston - LIR3 counter-regulatory for both adaptive and innate receptors

Brown University - Serotonin receptor antagonists may be useful in the treatment of PML

Brown University, Providence - High-affinity antibody steers therapy to hepatocellular carcinoma

CHU Laval, Quebec City - Phi C31 integrase and nucleofection create stable transgene expression

CSIRO - Link between insulin receptor and epidermal growth factor receptors reviewed