News ) announced that in a phase I/II clinical trial, substitution of its investigational drug Pixantrone for Doxorubicin in CHOP (Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Oncovin and Prednisone) chemotherapy regimen produced high rates of complete remissions and long-term disease free survival in patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who previously failed the frontline CHOP therapy. The results were [...]
Archives: 05 April 2011
April 5, 2011
April 5, 2011
Elliott Management Questions Iron Mountain's Adoption Of 'Poison Pill'
(RTTNews) – Elliott Management Corp., which beneficially owns nearly 5 percent of the common stock of information management company Iron Mountain Inc. (IRM:
April 5, 2011
Pfizer Says FDA Rejected NDA For Tafamidis On Inadequate Filing
News ) Monday said it received a ‘Refusal to File’ letter from FDA, rejecting its New Drug Application for new oral investigational compound tafamidis, as it was not sufficiently complete to permit a substantive review. The company expects that no additional clinical studies are required for refiling the application.Tafamidis is intended for the treatment of [...]
April 5, 2011
Solutia Sells Santoweb And Vocol Businesses To Rhein Chemie
News ) said Monday that it has sold its Santoweb and Vocol businesses to Rhein Chemie, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany-based specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company noted that sales from the Santoweb and Vocol businesses represented less than 0.5 percent of its consolidated results for 2010. [...]
April 5, 2011
Constellation Software Says Exploring Strategic Alternatives
News ) said Monday that its board of directors is evaluating strategic alternatives for the company so as to enhance shareholder value. The board has retained BofA Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets to act as its advisors. The enterprise software company noted that there is no defined timeline for this strategic review and added [...]
April 5, 2011
TCF Financial Says Federal Judge Makes Rulings In Debit Card Interchange Lawsuit
News ) said Monday that a federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by the company’s subsidiary, TCF National Bank, that challenges forthcoming rules to reduce fees collected by banks from retailers for debit-card transactions. However, the judge also denied TCF’s motion for a preliminary injunction at the current point of time.TCF National Bank [...]
April 5, 2011
Intel CEO Receives 2010 Pay Package Of $15.7 Mln
News ) President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini received a pay package of $15.65 million in 2010, representing an increase of 7.3 percent from $14.58 million in 2009. The company had reported a profit for fiscal year 2010 that more than doubled from the prior year, helped largely by an increase in post-recession corporate [...]
April 5, 2011
CareFusion COO Dwight Winstead To Leave
News ), formed through a spin-off from Cardinal Health Corp. (CAH) in 2009, announced Tuesday that its Chief Operating Officer Dwight Winstead will leave the company, effective June 30. Winstead has served as COO since the company’s separation from Cardinal Health.”Dwight and I agreed the timing was right to streamline the organization. He has been [...]
April 5, 2011
Carlsberg Plans Brand Revamp To Boost Profits
News ) said Tuesday that it will invest significantly in repositioning its brand as part of efforts to double profits from the Carlsberg brand beer by 2015. The company said it will modernize the visual identity of its Carlsberg lager, widen its distribution channels and roll out a completely new range of packaging across more [...]
April 5, 2011
Merck To Acquire Inspire Pharma For About $430 Mln
News ) in a cash transaction valued at about $430 million. The deal will strengthen Merck’s ophthalmology business and position it for future growth with an expanded portfolio. Merck said it continues to build upon its long-term commitment to improving therapeutic options for the treatment of eye diseases.Durham, North Carolina-based Inspire Pharma is a biopharmaceutical [...]
April 5, 2011
Three New ISS Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan
NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launched in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT Monday (4:18 a.m. Tuesday, Kazakhstan time) beginning a two-day journey to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz, named for Yuri Gagarin, lifted off just one week shy [...]
April 5, 2011
Former Cosmonaut Offers First-Hand Account Of The Death Of Yury Gagarin
Russian pilot and cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov has offered the most plausible account to date of the crash of the fighter jet that killed Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, and Vladimir Seryogin, a regimental commander at the cosmonaut training center where Gagarin was enrolled. Aksyonov, a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, was with [...]
April 5, 2011
April 5, 2011
Moscow teens set fire to woman
A 23-year-old woman is in hospital after being set ablaze by a group of teenagers in north Moscow, media reports said on Tuesday. The woman was dragged into an empty building on Monday afternoon, covered in an inflammable liquid and set alight. She suffered burns to 80% of her body, including her face. She [...]