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December 2008

December 12

FDA Requires New Safety Measures for Oral Sodium Phosphate Products to Reduce Risk of Acute Kidney Injury AstraZeneca Responds to FDA Joint Advisory Committees' Recommendation on Symbicort Elan Announces Resource Realignment GlaxoSmithKline Statement on FDA Advisory Committee Vote on Use of Asthma Medicines Containing Long-Acting Beta-Agonists Johnson & Johnson Announces Receipt of Israeli Antitrust Approval for Acquisition of Omrix Bayer Strengthens Research and Development AstraZeneca Responds to FDA Joint Advisory Committees’ Recommendation on Symbicort Amorfix Receives Fourth Biogen Idec Investment Johnson & Johnson Begins Tender Offer to Acquire Mentor Corporation Allergists Respond to FDA Committee Recommendation on Asthma Medication, Encourage Patients with Questions to Contact Physicians Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb Prevail before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the U.S Plavix Patent Infringement Case Lilly Chairman Taurel Says Promise of Personalized Medicine Could be Jeopardized by Short-Sighted Public Policies

December 17

Abbott Exercises Its Option to Acquire Ibis Biosciences, a Subsidiary of Isis Healthcare Costs Prevented Nearly 40 Million Americans From Filling Their Prescriptions in 2008 Neurobiological Technologies Announces Viprinex Does Not Pass Interim Futility Analysis National Survey Finds That in the Last Three Months Millions of Americans Are Stretching Their Drug Prescriptions, Saving Themselves Money, by Either Taking the Medication Less Often or by Taking a Smaller Dosage Than the Physician Prescribed FDA Requires Warnings about Risk of Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior for Antiepileptic Medications Study Finds Much of Private-Sector Consumer Medication Information Not Consistently Useful Lundbeck Initiates Clinical Phase III Trials With Desmoteplase in Ischemic Stroke FTC Sues Ovation Pharmaceuticals for Illegally Acquiring Drug Used to Treat Premature Babies with Life-Threatening Heart Condition

December 23

GlaxoSmithKline and Archemix Form Strategic Alliance to Develop Aptamers to Treat Inflammatory Diseases Wisconsin AG Van Hollen Announces Settlement In Case Against Amgen And Immunex Alleging Deceptive Manipulation Of Average Wholesale Price For Pharmaceuticals Emory University Announces Actions Following Investigation Rep. Barton Probes FDA Contract Teva Completes Acquisition of Barr New Report Highlights Dramatic Change in U.S. Drug Spending Trends, Policy Implications KV Pharmaceutical Voluntarily Suspends All Shipments of Its Approved Tablet-Form Drugs Ethex Corporation Initiated Nationwide Voluntary Recall of a Single Lot of Hydromorphone HCl 2 mg Tablets Due to Potential for Oversized Tablet Abbott and Isis Announce Hart-Scott-Rodino Clearance of Abbott's Acquisition of Ibis Biosciences, a Subsidiary of Isis
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