Delcath Systems Inc. (NSDQ:DCTH) and Osteologix Holdings plc (PINK:OLGXF) planted roots in Ireland this month.
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Credit card sized field blood lab detects HIV and other diseases in minutes
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — If you can’t bring the village to the lab, you must bring the lab to the village.
Such was the inspiration for the tiny mChip mobile blood testing lab that fits on a credit card and detects HIV and other diseases in minutes.
Neoprobe: Does stock’s 40 percent drop validate its biggest critic?
The hedge fund manager Neoprobe Corp. (NYSE Amex:NEOP) investors love to hate isn’t eager to take credit for the cancer diagnostics company’s free-falling stock price.
Medtronic and St. Jude play the neurostim field
CareFusion acquires German robotics company for $150 million | Acquisitions roundup
CareFusion Corp. (NYSE:CFN) announced that it acquired Rowa, a Germany-based robotic medication storage company, for $150 million this week.
Rowa develops automated pharmaceutical storage and retrieval systems, which CareFusion will combine with its own Pyxis line of dispensing and security systems. Rowa’s products include refrigerated storage and a stock input and management system.
Commercial Speech Trumps Privacy When It Comes to Drug Marketing
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can’t pass laws like one in Vermont that prevent drug companies from gaining access to the prescribing records of physicians. Pharmaceutical firms use these records to determine which doctors should be bombarded with detailers and marketing messages to beef up sales of broadly prescribed drugs like anti-depressants, anti-pain pills, cholesterol-lowering and blood pressure-control meds.
$1 billion: The price for settling federal beef over J&J’s drug marketing
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — $1 billion: The price for settling federal beef over J&J’s drug marketing. Federal prosecutors are seeking about $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) to settle a criminal investigation into the company’s marketing of an antipsychotic drug, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Parkinson’s Disease: Could Medtronic pact with Lilly lead to a cure?
Parkinson’s disease: Medtronic and Eli Lilly team up on new drug delivery treatment
Neoprobe dodges proxy fight with largest shareholder
Cancer diagnostics company Neoprobe Corp. (NYSE Amex:NEOP) avoided a proxy fight with its largest shareholder reaching an agreement on board nominations.
The shareholder, Platinum Montaur Life Sciences, last month threatened Neoprobe with a proxy fight aimed at installing three new directors on the Dublin, Ohio-based company’s board.
Johnson & Johnson bribery case: Company slipped millions in fines ratting out competitors
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) saved millions in criminal fines for providing federal prosecutors with information on its competitors’ transgressions, according to a U.S. Dept. of Justice press release.