NEW YORK, NY.- Prominent private and institutional collections are the source for a stellar line-up of works to be offered at Christie's sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 2, 2009 in New York. Lead highlights of the sale include a significant and deeply personal work by the late Andrew Wyeth that has not been available on the market in nearly 50 years, and a...
The City of Tyre By NC Wyeth [ Golden Age Comic Book Stories ] The Phantom Artist unknown [ Jon Knutson ] Monstro! By Jack Kirby [ Poulpe Pulps ] Shark Girl By Byron Leboe . Kelp-Haired Survivor By Eric Zermeno . Tiger Lady By Mel Milton . Basilisk By Brian. [ Vedunia ] The Flying Monkey By Jeremy Vanhoozer . Witch World Artist Unknown [ Pulp of the Day ] The Planet of Peril I don't recognize this...
There was this news report last Thursday from Nature magazine. http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/091119/full/nj7271-375e.html Published in Nature 462, 375 (18 November 2009) | 10.1038/nj7271-375e Huge cuts by drug firms R&D closure is the latest in a series of hits to drug companies. Pfizer is closing 35% of its global research and development space, according to a 9 November announcement....
This Archive Contains Some "Secret" Documents Only Made Public In The Course Of Lawsuits Filed Against Pharmaceutical Companies (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Created and maintained by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), the Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA) contains over 1500 documents, many of which were previously secret and only made public as a result...
Anita Silvey 's latest book is Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life (Roaring Brook, 2009). So far, what’s the most fun you’ve ever had working on a book? Why? I know that many authors suffer from the "my newest baby is my favorite baby" syndrome. Certainly, that defines my state of mind at the...
Samir Ghodbane, Ph.D. , has been appointed as the new general manager of CMC services and CTM manufacturing at Frontage . Dr. Ghodbane has extensive experience and expertise in product development and technical operations spanning the complete product development cycle, as well as a comprehensive understanding of branded and generic pharmaceutical environments. He has led drug development and technical...
Is Prempro, the hormone drug known to increase the risk of breast cancer, a public hazard? If a judge in Pinellas County determines that it is, hundreds of thousands of documents now under seal in lawsuits against the drug's manufacturer nationwide could be released for the public to inspect. The key to the confidential company records has ended up in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Anthony Rondolino's...
The US Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products advisory committee voted in favor (10 to one) of data presented to support the safety and effectiveness of global drug giant Pfizer’s Prevnar 13, its 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate candidate vaccine acquired along with its $68 billion buy of fellow US drug major Wyeth. The favorable recommendation of the vaccine...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - Deadly Immunity Click either link below to read the full article: Read article at Rollingstone.com Read article at Salon.com In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this...
Authors of the peer-reviewed phase 2 study of bapineuzumab in patients with Alzheimer disease conclude that the "trial provides insufficient evidence to support or refute a benefit" of the anti-amyloid mAb. The results of the Elan/Wyeth-funded trial, which are...
The new Pfizer-Wyeth got good news Wednesday after an FDA panel determined that the company's updated version of childhood vaccine Prevnar--called Prevnar-13--is safe and effective. Article
John Paulson told investors that there is still money to be made investing in banks. He sent out a letter to investors today with his latest market forecasts. The hedge fund manager sees "'big opportunities to wager on price discrepancies in banking stocks.' The 139 percent surge in financial sector stocks since March 9 has led to “inefficient valuations creating what we believe are opportunities...
Unlike some of the managers I reviewed yesterday, Bruce Berkowitz and his cohorts at the Fairholme Capital have been buying. A scan of their Q3 2009 holdings spreadsheet suggests they favor healthcare companies and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B). Fairholme opened two new positions, both in the healthcare industry: Wyeth (WYE) and Cardinal Health (CAH). However, Berkowitz [...]
SAC Capital Advisors dropped a few big names from its portfolio last quarter, though it increased its reported stock holdings by $2.3 billion to over $10 billion. The hedge fund sold 7 million shares of Bank of America, which was 90% of its stake in the bank. It also sold all of its stake in Occidental, and some of its Apple holdings. The fund chose to invest instead in over 300 new companies, most...
We just love to see our victories put to good use by other lawyers in later cases. So we got a big kick out of Pustejovsky v. Wyeth, No. 4:07-CV-103-Y, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101513 (N.D. Tex. Sept. 4, 2009). We didn't get a big kick out of the facts, since we had nothing to do with them: Dr. Collini prescribed generic Reglan to treat Pustejovsky's acid reflux. After using the drug for three years,...
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