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Biotech Stocks: Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi lead drug-stock rally

By Val Brickates Kennedy, MarketWatch BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Drug stocks were on a roll Friday, as the broader market rallied after spending the better part of the week deep in negative territory. The Amex Pharmaceutical...

Maxygen Lands $170M Preclinical Deal with Astellas

Less than three months after selling preclinical hemophilia drug MAXY-VII to Bayer HealthCare in a deal worth up to $120 million, Maxygen Inc. is at it again. This time, the Redwood City, Calif.-based biotech signed a...

Phase Forward to Present at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference

Phase Forward Incorporated (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced its chief executive officer and president, Bob Weiler, and chief financial...

Aegis Therapeutics Awarded Patent for Its ProTek(R) Room Temperature Stable Human Growth Hormone...

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - September 16, 2008) - Aegis Therapeutics LLC announced today that it has been awarded U.S. Patent 7,425,542, titled "Stabilizing alkylglycoside compositions and methods thereof." The patent...

Transition Therapeutics Announces Fiscal 2008 Year End Financial Results

Attention Business/Financial Editors TORONTO, Sept. 15 /CNW/ - Transition Therapeutics Inc. ("Transition" or the "Company") (TSX: TTH, NASDAQ:TTHI) a product-focused biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for...

Amylin shares rise as Icahn boosts ownership stake

NEW YORK - Shares of biotechnology company Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. jumped Monday following billionaire investor Carl Icahn's move to increase his ownership stake to 7.3 percent. The stock advanced 95 cents, or 4.7...

'Mad Money Lightning Round': First Solar Shines (at TheStreet.com)

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Thursday evening: First Solar : "I like the technology and I'm a buyer of First Solar. Jim Cramer,...

Your First Move For Tuesday Sept. 9th (at CNBC)

Here’s our Fast Money Final Trade. Our gang gives you tomorrow’s best trades, right now. Jeff Macke suggests RIMM is a “Buy at $100 with a tight stop at $95." Guy Adami prefers long Urban Outfitters . Karen Finerman likes...

Biotech Stocks: Drug stocks follow broader market into red

BOSTON (MarketWatch) - Drug stocks followed the broader market into negative territory early Monday as investors grappled with news that one of the U.S.'s largest financial institutions, Lehman Brothers, has filed for...

“Children with diabetes lack support at school”

ROME: Nine out of 10 children with diabetes lack support at school, the results of an international survey conducted in 13 countries during 2007-2008 and launched here recently, have revealed. Presented on the sidelines...