The following statement was issued today by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) regarding a new survey from the AARP on price trends for biotechnology drugs:
"The report issued yesterday by the AARP on price trends for specialty drugs ignores the many factors that counter and mitigate the price trends mentioned in this analysis. The report focuses [...]

Based on its recent analysis of the cardiovascular image management systems market, Frost & Sullivan presents ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM Company, with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Quality Leadership, in recognition of the quality of the products and services the company brings to the market.

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified its safety alert about the proper connection of sutureless catheters used with implantable drug infusion systems as a Class I recall. The notification relates to the improper connection of its sutureless connector intrathecal catheters (referred to [...]

Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples.

Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI) will present an abstract in a presentation on their new drug candidate, VG101, for the treatment of vaginal dryness, at the 19th Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society in Orlando, Florida on September 26, 2008. Dr. Mary Tagliaferri, president and chief medical officer [...]