Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA

Diagnostics - BD Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of BD Vacutainer(R) Rapid Serum Blood Collection Tube

Drug Development - Cipher announces enrollment of first patient in CIP-ISOTRETINOIN Phase III safety study

Drug Development - Sequella Receives American Recovery and Reinvestment Funding Through the NIH

Drug Safety - New Momentum Teams With Oracle to Help Reduce Counterfeiting in the Life Sciences Industry

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - PEGINTRON(R) Receives a Recommendation for Approval from FDA Advisory Committee for a New Application in Melanoma

Familial Hypercholesterolemia - Welchol(R) (colesevelam HCl) Receives FDA Approval to Lower LDL Cholesterol in Pediatric Patients with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Fenton Communications - Fenton Communications Names Social Marketing Expert Rob Anderson as Managing Director of New York Office

Food Poisoning - USDA Joins FDA Efforts on New Food Safety Regulations

GE Healthcare - GE Healthcare Introduces CARESCAPE Monitor B850

General Electric - GE Developing Health Globally Commissions First Hospitals in Cambodia

Genzyme Corporation - Genzyme Receives FDA Complete Response Letter for Clolar

Hard to Treat Diseases - Hard to Treat Diseases HTDS Obtains GMP Certificate from Russian FDA

Harvard Clinical Research Institute - Harvard Clinical Research Institute Enrolls First Patients into DAPT Study to Advance Understanding of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Following Drug-Eluting Stent Procedures

Hepatitis C Virus - Pharmasset Nominates PSI-879 as a New Nucleotide Analog Inhibitor of Hepatitis C for Preclinical Development

Homeland Security - PharmAthene Executives Featured in Anthrax Pathogen Training Video for U.S. Department of Homeland Security

ICCR, Nyc - Investors Vindicated by Court Ruling on Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, New Concerns Raised About Inadequate EPA Review of Monsanto Corn Product

Idaho Technology, Inc. - Military Approves H1N1 Testing with Idaho Technology JBAIDS

iMedicor - iMedicor Signs Agreement With Access Pharmaceuticals for the North American Commercial Launch of MUGARD(TM)

Indoorhdantenna.com - Top Quality Electronic Cigarettes Now Cheaper Than Ever Before

Influenza - Face Masks Offer Protection Against Spreading H1N1

Inviragen - Inviragen Merges with SingVax and Completes $15 million Series a Financing

JAMA and Archives Journals - Cocaine vaccine may help some reduce drug use

JohnsonDiversey Inc. - JohnsonDiversey and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Announce Equity Investment and Company Recapitalization

Labopharm Inc. - Labopharm announces that its trazodone API supplier has resolved outstanding manufacturing issues with the FDA

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. - Data Featuring Gadofosveset Trisodium, the First and Only MRA Blood Pool Agent Approved in the U.S., Presented At MRA-Club 09: the 21st Annual International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Angiography

Lupus - National Report Shines Light on Lupus 50-Year Treatment Drought

Medical Tourism Association - Officials from Globe Gather for Medical Tourism in Los Angeles

Mental Health - SRI International Awarded National Institute of Mental Health Contract for Evaluation of Brain Imaging Agents and Medications for Treatment of Mental Disorders

Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals Completes Key Equity Financing for Ophthalmology Drugs

Momentive Performance Materials - Momentive Introduces an Evolution in Rubber Extrusion: UV Cure Silicone Rubber

Monarch Labs Llc - Monarch Labs and MNX Partner to Provide Expedited Shipping of Medical Maggots(TM)

New Hope Natural Media - Natural Products Expos East and West Garner Top Trade Show Awards

Nukepills.com - Free Pills from Government Boost Potassium Iodide Sales

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Butler Hospital Leads National Study of Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Pediatrics - CryoLife Receives Humanitarian Use Device Designation for SynerGraft(R) Processed Human Aortic Heart Valves

Perrigo Company - Perrigo Announces FDA Final Approval for Polyethylene Glycol 3350

Pharmaceuticals - Access Pharmaceuticals Signs eMarketing Agreement With iMedicor for MuGard(TM)

Pharmaceuticals - CardioPharma Prepares for FDA Submission

Pharmaceuticals - Chinese Food and Drug Administration Approves Gabexate Mesylate as Pharmaceutical Raw Material

Pharmaceuticals - Savient Pharmaceuticals Prices Underwritten Offering of Common Stock

Pharmaceuticals - Transdel Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 3 Study Results for Lead Topical Pain Drug Ketotransdel(R)

Pico-Tesla Magnetic Therapies, Inc. - Pico-Tesla Starts Phase III Clinical Trial of Its Proprietary Magnetic Magneceutical(TM) Therapy for Parkinson's Disease

Prostate Cancer - FDA Grants Additional Fast Track Designation for OGX-011 in Combination with First Line Chemotherapy

Prostate Cancer - OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals CEO Named Canada's Pacific Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year(R) in the Health Sciences Category

ReGen Biologics, Inc. - ReGen Closes Bridge Financing

Regulatory Actions - U.S. FDA Authorizes Expansion to 40 Clinical Sites for HeartWare U.S. Bridge-to-Transplant Clinical Trial

Research and Markets - This Essential Report on Turkey's Pharmaceutical Market is Now Available

Reverse Medical Corporation - Reverse Medical Corporation Achieves Milestone of Human Use with the ReStoreTM Microcatheter in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Salmonellosis - Chicago Company Offers Up Solution to 'Dirty' Eggs Dilemma: Go Pasteurized to Avoid Food-Borne Illness

Sidley Austin LLP - Former Genetics and Public Policy Center Lawyer, Gail Javitt, Joins Sidley's FDA Regulatory Practice

Smiths Detection - Smiths Detection to Exclusively Distribute Prime Alert Bio-Threat Detection System

Smiths Detection - Smiths Detection, AeroVironment and US Army Collaborate on Chemical Agent-Detecting UAV

Synexus - Synexus Set to Target Cancer Vaccine Trials

The Oral Cancer Foundation - Oral Cancer Foundation to Donate Screening Devices to Free Clinics

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency - CMA Destroys Its Two Millionth Munition

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - FDA Consumer Health Information Updates: FDA's Cooperative Programs Improve Food Safety

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - FDA Orders Postmarket Surveillance Studies on Certain Spinal Systems

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - FDA Takes Enforcement Action Against Ready-to-Eat Sandwich Manufacturer

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - FDA Transparency Task Force to Hold 2nd Public Meeting on Ensuring That Agency Information is Useful, Understandable, Accessible

U.S. Potato Board - United States Potato Growers Respond to Center for Science in the Public Interest's Risky Foods List, Provides Important Facts About Food Safety

Vermillion, Inc. - Vermillion Announces Return of Eric Fung, M.D., Ph.D.