Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 12:06PM "Google Inc will pay $500 million to settle government charges that it showed ads for pharmacies that operate illegally, regulators are expected to announce on Wednesday, according to a report in the New York Times." To read the entire article click here.
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 07:55AM "...Today, the clinical trials business has gone global as drugmakers seek cheaper venues for studies and cast their net further afield for big pools of "treatment-naive" patients who are not already taking other drugs that could make them unsuitable subjects for testing new ones. And it is not only the practicalities of running big clinical trials as efficiently and cheaply as possible that is driving the change." To read the entire Reuters article, written by Ben Hirschler, click here.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 10:45AM "Medical products makers Baxter International Inc (BAX.N) and Covidien Plc (COV.N) posted stronger-than-expected quarterly results, boosted by robust demand, and they raised their full-year outlooks.
Shares of both companies were up about 3 percent in trading before the market opened." To read the entire Reuters article, click here.
Earnings reports in Newspaper Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 08:06AM "Snoring and waking up at night are common nighttime annoyances, but for many, they are signs of a major health problem: sleep apnea. A number of companies are marketing nasal devices to treat the disorder. Scientists say the nonprescription devices haven't been adequately studied, but two new studies found a prescription device effective in some patients.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder in which a person stops breathing when the airway closes. Common reasons are blockages to the airway, either by tissue in the back of the throat collapsing or the tongue falling back into the throat. An effective treatment involves using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, which forces air into the throat to keep it open. " To read the entire Wall Street Article, written by Laura Johannes, click here.
Sleep Apnea, new treatment in Medical News Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 10:11PM "For developers of new drugs and treatments, one of the toughest hurdles has nothing to do with medicine. It's recruiting patients for clinical trials. And when it comes to recruiting minority patients, the challenge is even greater.
New approaches are being tried that can dramatically speed up the recruiting process and reach more patients from groups frequently underrepresented in studies.
At the heart of these new methods is the shift to electronic medical records, which makes patient searches faster and more methodical—in part by also allowing researchers to involve patients in trials from day one of their treatment." To read the entire WSJ article, written by Jennifer Corbett Dooren, click here.