Shares of Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: TLCR) touched a new 52-week high of $25.80 on Tuesday. The biotechnology company's stock has been rising since Thursday when it received orphan drug designation from the European Commission for the development of Plasmin, derived from human plasma, to treat acute peripheral arterial occlusion.
Human Genome Sciences Inc's lupus drug is poised to win clearance this week, offering patients the first approved treatment option in a half-century and setting the company up for blockbuster sales.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX) reported positive interim results on March 2 from a Phase 2 two-part study of 'telaprevir' combination therapy for treatment of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HCV-HIV co-infection. The shares of the drugmaker touched a new 52-week high of $51.10 on Friday.
A new technology, originally used for plant growth experiments on space shuttles, can reduce the pain that comes from chemotherapy.
The possible factors that could lead to the cannibalization of the PC by tablets are classified into consumer growth and enterprise growth. Tablets may ultimately cannibalize around 15 percent of the total PC market through 2014, which while material, doesn't deter the PC markets from seeing sustained growth over the next 5-years, according to RBC Capital Markets.
Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX) touched a new 52-week high of $50.83 on Thursday. The company announced positive interim results on Wednesday from a Phase 2 two-part study of 'telaprevir' combination therapy for treatment of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HCV-HIV co-infection.
Investigations into use of the dangerous but legal drug has led to the expulsion of eight midshipmen from the Academy; the number could well go up.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTX) announced positive interim results on Wednesday from a Phase 2 two-part study of 'telaprevir' combination therapy for treatment of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HCV-HIV co-infection. The shares of the drugmaker touched a new 52-week high of $47.82 on Wednesday.
Marijuana use in adolescents causes psychosis, according to a paper that appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). This piece of research is significant in that it addresses a key question: in adolescents, is the higher-than-average instances of psychosis with marijuana users a cause-and-effect relationship or simply one of correlation?
People.com is reporting that tennis star Serena Williams suffers pulmonary embolism.
A retail store, dubbed the 'Wal Mart of weed' has thrown open its doors in Sacramento with how-to experts and merchandise to help medical marijuana patients grow pot.
A 30-year health study in the United States has shown that higher the degree held by a person, the lower his blood pressure.
A mobile phone can spot cancer and soon there may be an application to detect it and could allow physicians to find out within 60 minutes whether a suspicious lump in a patient is cancerous or benign, Science Translational Medicine journal said in a report on Friday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first test for the preliminary identification of norovirus that cause the “stomach flu,” or gastroenteritis.
Florida houses 12 of the best 50 hospitals in the country, followed by Ohio with seven, a new survey has found.
Increased and continuous use of computers is causing musculosketal disorders in a growing number of youth and children, according to a study by researchers at the Boston University.
Pfizer Inc said it has settled all outstanding lawsuits involving accusations that it tested the experimental antibiotic Trovan on children in Nigeria during a 1996 meningitis outbreak without receiving adequate prior consent.
Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) cut its full-year earnings forecast, hampered by weakness in key medical device markets, and said it would eliminate up to 2,000 jobs, sending its shares down 2 percent. The world's largest medical device maker has struggled with slow sales as patients postponed treatments in the global
Many doctors are doing little or nothing to help their overweight or obese patients to lose weight but many of them have made new year resolutions for weight loss, according to a new Harris Poll.
Prosthetic fangs, gold grills, tooth tattoos - these might sound crazy to you, but wait until you hear some other requests. The answers might shock you!
Her doctor says she suffered a complex migraine.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is helping partners in China improve child vaccines, roll out faster TB detection kits and make higher-yielding rice which it hopes can be used later in other parts of the world.
