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Ampio's common stock to be listed on NASDAQ Capital Market

Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage developer of new uses for previously approved drugs and new molecular entities, announces that its common stock has been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

18 May 2011

Calypso System can precisely deliver radiation in post-prostatectomy patients

Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., developer of GPS for the Body® technology used for the precise tracking of cancerous tumors during radiation therapy, is exhibiting at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting (booth 4337) and will discuss recent clinical findings suggesting that the Calypso® System can be used to more precisely deliver radiation in post-prostatectomy patients.

16 May 2011

Antares Pharma prices underwritten public offering of common stock

Antares Pharma, Inc. today announced it has priced a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 12,500,000 shares of the Company's common stock at a purchase price of $1.60 per share for an aggregate gross offering amount of $20.0 million.

13 May 2011

Antares Pharma first quarter total revenues increase to $3.6 million

Antares Pharma, Inc. today reported financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.

9 May 2011

Ampio raises $12.732 million through private placement of common stock

Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the successful completion of a private placement from which Ampio received gross proceeds of $12.732 million.

20 Apr 2011

BioSante, Aduro BioTech enter license agreement for GVAX cancer vaccines

Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, has licensed GVAX Pancreas Cancer Vaccine and GVAX Prostate Cancer Vaccine BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in exchange for milestone and royalty payments after commercialization.

19 Apr 2011

BioSante licenses Pancreas and Prostate cancer vaccines to Aduro BioTech

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has licensed its Pancreas Cancer Vaccine and Prostate Cancer Vaccine to Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, solely for use in combination with Aduro's proprietary vaccine platform based on Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).

19 Apr 2011

New book on women's health and diabetes care

"If there is anything that this disease has done to improve my life, it taught me at a young age how to take care of myself." - Nikki Peterson, 24 years old, diabetes for 14 years.

16 Apr 2011

FDA accepts Teva's NDA filing of Bio-T-Gel for male hypogonadism

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that a New Drug Application (NDA) has been accepted for filing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following submission in January 2011 by a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.. The FDA has assigned a PDUFA date of November 14, 2011. The PDUFA date is the target date for the FDA to complete its review of the NDA.

15 Apr 2011

FDA accepts Antares Pharma's Anturol NDA for filing, assigns PDUFA date

Antares Pharma, Inc. today announced the New Drug Application (NDA) for Anturol® Gel in patients with overactive bladder (OAB) was accepted for filing for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Anturol is an oxybutynin gel incorporating Antares' ATD Gel technology.

8 Apr 2011

Survivors of severe critical illness requiring intensive care do not regain physical or psychological health

A unique and richly detailed long-term study of survivors of severe critical illness requiring intensive care found that even those who were previously healthy, young and working did not regain the physical or psychological health they had before their illness.

8 Apr 2011

Vanda to initiate tasimelteon Phase IIb/III clinical trial in Major Depressive Disorder

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced its plans to initiate a Phase IIb/III clinical trial of tasimelteon in patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The trial is expected to begin during the second half of 2011. Tasimelteon is currently being evaluated in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of Non-24-Hour Sleep/Wake Disorder (N24HSWD) in blind individuals without light perception.

31 Mar 2011

Rexahn's RX-5902 pre-clinical data against cancer to be presented at AACR Annual Meeting

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, today announced that it will present new pre-clinical data on its oncology compound RX-5902 during a poster session at the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting being held in Orlando, Florida, April 2-6, 2011, at the Orange County Convention Center.

31 Mar 2011

BioSante completes patient enrollment in LibiGel Phase III trial against HSDD

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that enrollment of subjects in the second of two pivotal Phase III LibiGel safety and efficacy trials has been completed. Enrollment in the first LibiGel efficacy trial was completed in February.

30 Mar 2011

Prostatic artery embolization comparable to transurethral resection

A new interventional radiology treatment that blocks blood supply to men's enlarged prostate glands shows comparable clinical results to transurethral resection of the prostate (or TURP), considered the gold standard (or most common) treatment. However, this minimally invasive treatment-prostatic artery embolization-has none of the risks associated with TURP, such as sexual dysfunction, urinary incontinence, blood loss and retrograde ejaculation, noted researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago.

30 Mar 2011

Rexahn completes 33% of 300 patient enrollment in Serdaxin Phase IIb clinical trial for major depressive disorder

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, today announced that it has enrolled 33 percent of the total projected patients required for its Phase IIb clinical trial of Serdaxin to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).

24 Mar 2011

NeoTract initiates patient enrollment for UroLift System trial to treat prostrate cancer

NeoTract, Inc. a medical device company focused on developing urology devices, today announced that the first U.S. patients have been enrolled in a multinational trial of its UroLift® System at Western Urological Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah.

23 Mar 2011

New study: Men who consume hair loss drug may report sexual dysfunction

A new study by The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, that will be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, suggests men who take the drug finasteride, commonly marketed under the trademark names Propecia and Proscar, may report an on-going reduction in sex drive, and in some cases, prolonged periods of erectile dysfunction even after they stop using the medications.

18 Mar 2011

Euthymics Bioscience initiates EB-1010 phase 2b/3a TRIADE clinical trial for major depressive disorder

Euthymics Bioscience, Inc. today announced the initiation of an advanced clinical study of its lead product candidate EB-1010 for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The TRIADE (Triple Reuptake Inhibitor Anti-Depressant Effects) trial is a phase 2b/3a clinical trial designed to assess the safety and efficacy of EB-1010, a novel serotonin-preferring triple reuptake inhibitor.

14 Mar 2011

Neurogenesis plays a beneficial role in exercise-induced response to stress, sexual behavior and reproduction

Two studies published by an interdisciplinary team of Hong Kong researchers in the current special issue of Cell Transplantation (20:1), now freely available on-line at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct/ , link the regrowth of key adult brain cells (neurogenesis) in two critical areas of the brain to both the benefits of exercise as a stress reducer and also to sexual behavior and reproductive issues.

11 Mar 2011