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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:21 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Royalty Pharma Lowers Acceptance Threshold For Elan Offer</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; By Jessica Hodgson &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; LONDON--Royalty Pharma AG, the New York-based pharmaceutical investor bidding around $6.4 billion in cash for drugmaker Elan Corp. (ELN) Thursday said it was lowering the threshold for shareholder acceptance for its offer to 50% plus one share, from...</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:21 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Wednesday's session are Saks Inc. (SKS), Zale Corp. (ZLC) and Multiband Corp. (MBND). &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Luxury retailer Saks has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale...</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:16:40 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Gilead Hepatitis C Drug Gets Accelerated Review</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) said the marketing authorization application for its new hepatitis C drug has been validated by the European Medicines Agency and granted accelerated assessment. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Gilead is also seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the once-daily...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Gilead Hepatitis C Drug Sofosbuvir Granted Accelerated Review...</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;pre&#62; By Debbie Cai &#60;/pre&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) said the marketing authorization application for its new hepatitis C drug has been validated by the European Medicines Agency and granted accelerated assessment. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Gilead is also seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:44:39 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Gilead Sciences 1st-Quarter Profit Jumps 63%</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;pre&#62; By Mia Lamar &#60;/pre&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD) first-quarter earnings rose 63% as the biopharmaceutical company reported increased sales for the newer additions to its HIV drug franchise. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Gilead's HIV treatment Stribild, which was launched in late August, contributed...</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:59:50 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Vertex Pharmaceuticals Swings to 1st-Quarter Loss on Write-Down</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX) swung to a first-quarter loss on a write-down tied to its hepatitis C program, as sales of Incivek also slid. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The pharmaceutical company has now reported four straight quarters of losses amid slumping sales...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:02:11 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Co-Founder Receives $81.55 Million...</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s (REGN) stock price tripled last year, and the compensation of co-founder and Chief Executive Leonard Schleifer nearly did, too. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Mr. Schleifer made $30.04 million in 2012, according to filings with the Securities...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:04:16 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Gilead Says FDA Rejects New Drug Applications for Elvitegravir...</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected its new drug applications for the use of elvitegravir and cobicistat as part of HIV treatment regimens. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The biopharmaceutical company said the FDA's complete...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:25:04 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>As Biotechnology Stocks Soar, Bubble Talk Percolates</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Biotechnology stocks are quite healthy right now, but some think they are due for a cold. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The sector is on a run not seen since the go-go days of the late 1990s, bolstered by a string of clinical and regulatory successes that analysts say...</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:42:31 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Bristol Says Results of Hepatitis C Drug Trial are Positive</title>
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&#60;p&#62; An experimental drug cocktail from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) cleared the hepatitis C virus in most patients in a mid-stage clinical trial--results that could keep the company in the race to develop the next generation of treatments for the liver...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Idenix Loses 1st-Stage of Drug Compounds Patent Case</title>
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&#60;p&#62; The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided against Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IDIX) in the first phase of a two-stage interference process regarding the biopharmaceutical company's patent applications for certain compounds useful in the treatment...</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:40:51 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Gentium Gets Negative Opinion From CHMP; Biogen, Others Get Positive...</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gentium SpA (GENT) said the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use issued a negative opinion, recommending the refusal of marketing authorization for its treatment for hepatic veno-occlusive disease. &#60;/p&#62;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:33:25 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Pfizer Stops Developing Hepatitis C Drug, Cites Strategic Review</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;pre&#62; By Peter Loftus &#60;/pre&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Pfizer Inc. (PFE) has stopped development of an experimental hepatitis C drug, bowing out of a hotly contested industry race to introduce the next generation of treatments for the infectious liver disease. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The New York-based drug giant decided...</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:27:09 EST</pubDate>
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 <title>Elan Sweetens Shareholder Deal</title>
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&#60;p&#62; LONDON--Irish biotech company Elan Corp. PLC (ELN) Monday said it would sweeten an incentive to shareholders to remain invested in the company but provided little in the way of detail about acquisition targets, casting further doubt over its future...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:20:54 EST</pubDate>
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 <title>Royalty Pharma Offers $6.55 Billion for Elan</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; LONDON--Pharmaceutical investor Royalty Pharma LLC Monday disclosed it had approached Elan Corp. (ELN) last week about a takeover and made a $6.55 billion offer after talks with the company, two days before the Irish drug maker outlined its investment plans after the sale of...</description>
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 <title>Gilead, Teva Reach Preliminary Pact in Viread Patent Dispute</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) said it reached a preliminary settlement in long-running legal battle with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA) over patents related to the U.S. biopharmaceutical company's Viread drug. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The preliminary accord...</description>
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 <title>Gilead Sees Positive Results From Late-Stage Hepatitis C Treatment...</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) said results from the fourth late-stage study evaluating its hepatitis C treatment were positive. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The study evaluates 12- and 16-week courses of therapy with Gilead's once-daily nucleotide sofosbuvir plus...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:16:05 EST</pubDate>
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 <title>Gilead Recalls Lot of Vistide Due to Particulate Matter</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) is voluntarily recalling a lot of its Vistide antiviral drug due to the presence of particulate matter found in some of the lot's vials. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; The biopharmaceutical company is recalling Vistide B120217A, which has...</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:37:08 EST</pubDate>
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 <title>Correction to U.S. Hot Stock Futures Table</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD) fourth-quarter earnings rose 15% as the biopharmaceutical company reported double-digit revenue growth, mostly driven by strong sales of its HIV drugs. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Shares were up 2.3% % at $40.49 in recent after-hours trading...</description>
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