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BioForest

National Report: Maine Ranks 16th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco

Maine ranks 16th nationwide in funding programs that prevent kids from using tobacco and help smokers quit, according to a report released by leading public health groups.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read
BioForest

National Report: Maryland Ranks 22nd in Protecting Kids from Tobacco

Maryland ranks 22nd nationwide in funding programs that prevent kids from using tobacco and help smokers quit, according to a report released by leading public health groups.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read
BioForest

National Report: Massachusetts Ranks 37th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco

Massachusetts ranks 37th nationwide in funding programs that prevent kids from using tobacco and help smokers quit, according to a report released by leading public health groups.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read
BioForest

National Report: Michigan Ranks 45th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco

Michigan ranks 45th nationwide in funding programs that prevent kids from using tobacco and help smokers quit, according to a report released by leading public health groups.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read
BioCapital

Heart on Southwest Airlines flight provided life-saving gifts

The heart that was inadvertently left on board a Southwest Airlines plane in Seattle on Sunday, Dec. 9, made it to LifeNet Health’s Pacific Northwest facility in time to provide two potentially life-saving cardiac tissue grafts.

December 14, 2018
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2 min read
Pharm Country

Lupus Research Alliance Applauds FDA’s Fast Track Designation to Develop Baricitinib for Lupus

The Lupus Research Alliance is pleased to share good news about a potential new treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

December 14, 2018
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2 min read
Pharm Country

So Yummy And Good Morning America Break GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Record For Most Cookies Iced In 1 Hour

First Media’s So Yummy, the number one food brand on social media, joined forces with Good Morning America on Thursday, December 13 to break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ record for the Most cookies iced in 1 hour.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read
Genetown

Takeda Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for ADCETRIS® (brentuximab vedotin) for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Previously Untreated CD30+ Stage IV Hodgkin Lymphoma in Combination with AVD

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for the extension of the marketing authorization of ADCETRIS

December 14, 2018
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22 min read
BioCapital

NRMP Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM) for Appointment Year 2019 is Largest in History

The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) has released the results of the 2018 Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM) for appointment year 2019.

December 14, 2018
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3 min read
Deals

Astellas Acquires Potenza Therapeutics

Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it exercised, and closed on its exclusive option to acquire Potenza Therapeutics, Inc. (“Potenza”) on December 13, 2018, U.S. Eastern Time.

December 14, 2018
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4 min read