BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -
Press release, regulated information – UCB announced today that it met the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and clarified the
requirements for the approval of the Biologics License Application
(BLA) for Cimzia®, the first PEGylated anti-TNF, for the treatment of
rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
During the meeting, the FDA communicated that they require further
analysis of existing data and a new safety update. No additional
studies Read the rest of this entry »
* After items, EPS 59 cts vs analyst estimate of 60 cts
* Revenue up 11 pct
(Adds outlook, share price)
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Hospital operator Community
Health Systems Inc (
CYH.N
) on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter
profit, compared with a year-ago loss, helped by a 2 percent
increase in admissions due mainly to expansion of its hospital
network.
The Franklin, Tennessee-based company posted a net profit of
$59.9 million, or Read the rest of this entry »
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has been moved out of intensive care at a Delhi hospital after undergoing heart bypass surgery at the weekend, doctors say.
The 76-year-old prime minister was making a “speedy recovery” at the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences, they said.
Doctors said earlier that they expected Mr Singh to resume some official duties within two to four weeks.
But they said it would be up to six weeks before he was fully Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) –
the world’s largest
maker of drugs for rare genetic disorders, said fourth-quarter
profit rose 9.8 percent on sales of Myozyme for the rare genetic
disorder Pompe disease.
Net income increased to $86.7 million, or 31 cents a share,
from $78.9 million, or 29 cents, a year earlier, the Cambridge,
Massachusetts-based company said today in a statement. Earnings
excluding some costs beat by 2 cents the average
of
analysts Read the rest of this entry »
in 2002 suggesting that the risks of hormones may outweigh the benefits had millions of women stopping their hormones overnight. And just as quickly, hot flashes returned, thermostat settings were lowered, and bedcovers were thrown off in homes everywhere.
touting the benefits of hormones have women scrambling to get prescriptions again from their doctors. The hormones Oprah’s guests were applauding, called
, are shelved under “natural” menopausal Read the rest of this entry »
With the temperature hovering at 13 degrees early yesterday afternoon, it was a perfect time to build an ice skating rink.
And that is exactly what about two dozen volunteers did from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. when they converted one of the tennis courts at Crompton Park, 55 Canton St., into a 115-by-55-foot skating rink.
Children and adult volunteers, many from Local 107 of the Carpenters Union, which has its headquarters in sight of the park, worked Read the rest of this entry »
The energy level is high, the fitness clubs look at January as their biggest month of the year, and the sporting goods stores are marketing their weight and exercise machines along with their steppers and elliptical machines.
The adrenaline rush from a workout, no matter how strenuous, at first can give one the satisfaction of knowing that doing something for your body can enhance your self-esteem.
The city of El Paso Parks and Recreation Department Read the rest of this entry »
If you have ever gone to the emergency room in the middle of the night, had to see a doctor while in another city or state, or changed doctors in your life, you have no doubt been privy to the ominous clipboard with a stack of paper up to your chin and a pen almost out of ink in which to fill out the forms. As dreaded as that experience is, I know that a lot of the questions in the past have been left blank on my forms because I am not up to speed Read the rest of this entry »
An apple a day might help keep the oncologist away. A Cornell University researcher reports that fresh apple extracts significantly inhibited breast tumors in rats – and the higher the dose, the greater the effect. (The rats were fed the equivalent of one, three or six apples a day.)
“We not only observed that the treated animals had fewer tumors, but the tumors were smaller, less malignant and grew more slowly compared with the tumors in the untreated Read the rest of this entry »
Published on Saturday, February 07, 2009
With rising suicides and the stress of constant, lengthy deployments, the Army must put the same emphasis on mental fitness as on physical fitness, the Army’s top general said Friday at Fort Bragg.
“When people ask me what keeps me up at night, what I tell them is the thing that I worry most about is the long-term impacts on the mental health of our troops under the repeated combat deployments,” Read the rest of this entry »