Editor’s note: This story was revised shortly after publication to include comments from an official of Vitamin Cottage Natural Foods, the firm that sold the peanut butter in which Salmonella was found.
Feb 17, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offered additional evidence today that the Peanut Corp of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Ga., may not be the only PCA facility that has contributed to the nationwide
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The Pew Environment Group recently acquired documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealing that three Chilean salmon farming companies, including the two largest producers of farmed salmon, used a number of drugs not approved by the U.S. government. These chemicals include the antibiotics flumequine and oxolinic acid and the pesticide emamectin benzoate. The documents further show that the farmed salmon containing residues of Read the rest of this entry »

FORT WAYNE, IN, Dec 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) –
(PINKSHEETS: PINR) Kevin May, Pine Ridge Holdings CEO, is pleased to announce the consolidated, total revenues for the Pine Ridge Holdings companies totaled $1,214,122 (unaudited) through November 30, 2008. This number represents a 7% increase over the same period in 2007.
This total includes the revenues for Pine Ridge Racquet Club ($834,008), Pine Ridge Fitness Club ($250,228) Read the rest of this entry »

Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN)
today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 and
the six months ended December 31, 2008.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2009, the Company recorded a net profit of
$21.2 million, or $0.46 basic earnings per share ($0.43 diluted earnings
per share), compared to a net loss of $5.1 million and loss per share of
$0.11 in the same quarter of the prior year. A major contributor to the
Company’s Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese Health Ministry says a second person has died from bird flu in China this year.
The ministry said on its Web site late Sunday that the latest victim was a 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang who lived in Jinan city of northern China’s Shandong province. She died Saturday.
Earlier this month, a 19-year-old woman died from the bird flu virus in a Beijing hospital after contact with ducks in a market in a neighboring Read the rest of this entry »

Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX)
reported today its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year
ended December 31, 2008. Net loss for the fourth quarter and full year of
2008 was $15.9 million and $93.6 million, respectively, compared with $33.1
million and $160.0 million for the same periods of 2007. Net loss per
share was $0.26 and $1.53 for the fourth quarter and full year of 2008,
respectively, compared with a net loss per share of Read the rest of this entry »

When drug companies seek approval to market new medicines, they must show the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the results of all the tests they’ve run on volunteer patients – at first on only a few, then on dozens, and finally on hundreds or sometimes thousands.
After winning approval, the companies typically sponsor reports of those tests in medical journal publications, which many doctors often rely on to determine whether to prescribe new drugs Read the rest of this entry »

American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc.
Reconciliation of Reported Net Income to Non-GAAP Adjusted Net
Income from Continuing Operations
(Adjustments are presented on a pre-tax basis)
(Unaudited)
(In millions, except per share data)
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
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BEIJING (AP) — A woman in China’s far west has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Saturday, the country’s fourth death from the virus this year as the biggest festive season approaches.
The victim, a 31-year-old woman from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, had been to a live poultry market before she fell ill on Jan. 10, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Xiaoyan, a deputy director Read the rest of this entry »

Colombian Drug Lord Shot Dead in Madrid Hospital, Efe Reports
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Colombian drug trafficker Leonidas
Vargas was assassinated as he lay sleeping in a Madrid hospital
bed, Efe reported.
The 59-year-old, who was admitted to Madrid’s October 12th
Hospital on Jan. 2 suffering from stomach pains, was shot four
times with a silencer-fitted gun at around 8 p.m. local time
yesterday by one or two assassins, the news agency reported,
citing Read the rest of this entry »