Archive for November, 2008

News: Flamel Technologies Announces Nomination of Dr. Frank Fildes …

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Flamel Technologies (Nasdaq:FLML) announced today that the Board
of Directors has elected Dr. Frank J. Fildes, PhD to serve as a member
of the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Fildes was elected to replace
Cor Boonstra, who is retiring from his position with Flamel. Dr.
Fildes will also assume Mr. Boonstra’s pos…

Blood Pressure Drug Saves Lives for Heart Failure Patients

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

March 7, 2000 (Lake Worth, Fla.) — A new study shows that a blood-pressure
medication that physicians have traditionally been reluctant to use in people
with heart failure can significantly improve their chances of survival and
their quality of life.
The drug, Toprol XL (me…

Business Wire - Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau: Destination Segmentation

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

CHICAGO & LONDON — This is a repeat of the version issued yesterday.
The Fitch Ratings global pharmaceutical team today published its ‘Quarterly Global Pharmaceutical R&D Pipeline’ report for the second quarter. The overview details the mos…

Drug Store News - Generics flood market, eat into blockbusters’ market

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Branded drugs” domination of a market slips away with each generic launch. “Global sales of generic drugs will grow more than 20 percent annually to reach $80 billion by 2008, as healthcare providers turn increasingly to less-expensive, unpatented medicines,” said Graham Lewis, IMS vice president for pharma s…

BIOTECH Patent News - Patent Expiries of Key Therapies Cut Chronic Heart Failure Market in Half by 2016.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Decision Resources (Waltham, MA), one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the patent expiries of key therapies, most notably GlaxoSmithKline’s Coreg and Roche’s Dilatrend/Kredex, will cause the chronic heart failure…

News: Flamel Technologies Announces Payment from Wyeth …

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Flamel Technologies (Nasdaq: FLML) announced today that a payment
of $500,000 has been triggered in connection with the license
agreement it signed in 2007 with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of
Wyeth (NYSE: WYE). The agreement is for the development of a marketed
protein to be delivered using Flamel’s Medusa technology. …