Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly

Amicus Therapeutics - Pharmaceutical company names John F. Crowley as chairman, CEO

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm files for public offering of common stock

Angiosyn, Inc. - Pfizer to acquire biopharmaceutical firm to develop ophthalmology candidate

AnorMED, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical firm names new member to board of directors

AntiCancer Inc. - Mice with ubiquitous GFP expression model human tumor-host interactions

Applied Biosystems - New mass spectrometer introduced for small molecule quantification studies

Aradigm Corporation - Drug delivery firm announces results of special shareholder meeting

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm appoints Louis J. Lavigne, Jr., to board of directors

Argenta Discovery, Ltd. - High content assay development and screening service launched

Aspen Pharmacare - Production on generic AIDS drug could begin in March

Astex Technology - Patent covers use of crystal structure of human cytochrome P450 3A4

Aventis Pasteur - N-ethyl-N'-(dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide urea derivative quantified

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. - Seed funding to Be used to develop molecular imaging tools

B-Bridge International - German genomics center partners to distribute products in Japan, N. America

Bahrain Center for Studies & Research - Social factors play role in body-shape preferences of Arab women

Baptist Medical Center - Mississippi hospital acquires CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System

Baylor College of Medicine - Changing the timing of cancer vaccines could be effective

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston - Lack of enzyme turns fat cells into fat burners

Becton, Dickinson and Co. - Medical device firm announces results for first quarter

Berkeley National Lab, California - Water filter could help millions of Bangladeshis

Berna Biotech Ltd. - Research add new data to influenza vaccines body of knowledge

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine -  Yersinia enterocolitica vaccine protects against amebic liver abscess

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - ECG markers may identify patients unlikely to benefit from biventricular pacing

BioDelivery Sciences International - Agreement signed to license nanocochleate delivery technology to Sigma-Tau

BioDtech, Inc. - Biotech company signs licensing agreement for bacterial toxins technology

BioSource International, Inc. - Protein microarray quantifies specific phosphorylation of proteins

BioStorage Technologies, Inc. - Biomaterials storage firm appoints Gerald Longa to board of directors

BioXell SpA - Italian biotech company appoints Peter van Brummelen to its board of directors

Biolab Limited - Medical provider announces marketing and distribution partner in New Zealand

Biolipox - Swedish pharmaceutical firm raises $41M

Biomerica, Inc. - Device firm reports loss of $0.01 per share

Biosite Incorporated - Diagnostics firm reports new option grants

Biovail Corporation - Tiazac XC launched to Canadian physicians