Intelident Solutions Proposes to Acquire Zila for $0.42 per share in Cash
TAMPA, Fla., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelident Solutions, Inc. ("Intelident") today announced that it has submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors of Zila, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZILA ) to acquire all of the common stock of Zila for $0.42 per share, and the preferred stock for $0.48 per share, or a...PatientAssistance.com Proposes a HOLI Solution to American Healthcare Reform
Patient Assistance ( www.PatientAssistance.com ), a nonprofit organization connecting uninsured and underinsured Americans to patient assistance programs, proposes an insured approach to real healthcare reform. BATON ROUGE, La., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PatientAssistance.com ...Inverness Medical Innovations Proposes to Acquire Concateno plc
WALTHAM, Mass., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Inverness Medical Innovations (NYSE: IMA ) and Concateno plc today announced that they have reached agreement on a proposal for Inverness to acquire all of Concateno's outstanding share capital. Concateno, located in London, England, is a leading ...Warner Chilcott Proposes Redomestication From Bermuda to Ireland
ARDEE, Ireland, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Warner Chilcott Limited (Nasdaq: WCRX ) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved the redomestication of the Company from Bermuda to Ireland. Subject to the approval of a scheme of arrangement by the Company's stockholde...Gov. Rendell Proposes Help for Counties Battling West Nile; Warns Future Amounts Could be Less
Senate Republican Budget Proposal Could Slash Grants by 40 Percent HARRISBURG, Pa., May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a year in which the West Nile Virus was discovered in 33 counties and 14 Pennsylvanians were diagnosed with the disease, including one fatality, Governor Edward G. Rende...ActivBiotics Proposes Development Strategy for Its Novel Rifamycin Antibiotics
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph F. Finn, Jr., CPA, the Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of ActivBiotics, as a result of growing interest from prospective buyers, announced today a development strategy for further advancement of the company's proprietary benzoxazinor...Cancer Cure Coalition Proposes Major Changes at the FDA
PALMS BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Flawed policies and bad decisions at the FDA have contributed to an escalation of the cost of clinical trials which now take an average of one billion dollars and require 10 years for approval. This has delayed and even prevented the availabil...Diabetes Gene Raises Odds of Lower Birth Weight
...may cause a baby to be born smaller. Low birth weight is already known to increase the risk of disease later in life, and the fetal insulin hypothesis proposes that the same gene that causes lower birth weight also increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. "The mechanisms by which CDKAL1 may...ViroPharma Submits Comments on Vancocin(R) Draft Bioequivalence Guidance
...D acknowledges that inactive ingredients may affect product performance, and that the state of knowledge in this area is underdeveloped. However, OGD proposes without explanation that a Q1Q2 standard developed for oral solutions will nonetheless apply to Vancocin, an oral capsule product. Then, OGD backs of...Pharmaxis Announces New Drug Application Submission for Aridol(TM)
... randomized pivotal Phase 3 trials with Aridol involving over 1,000 subjects. The NDA application is the vehicle through which Pharmaxis formally proposes that the FDA approve a new pharmaceutical for sale and marketing in the U.S. There is currently no FDA approved dry powder bronchial challenge test a...Task Force Recommends Screening for Hearing Loss in All Newborns
...and those with a family history of childhood hearing loss. Because half of infants with hearing loss have no identifiable risk factors, the Task Force proposes universal screening, rather than targeted screening. Detecting and treating infants for hearing loss, rather than detecting it at a later age, provide...Shire to add New Orphan Drug to its HGT Portfolio - EU Launch Imminent
... BASINGSTOKE, England and CAMBRIDGE Massachusetts, July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Shire proposes acquisition of biotechnology company, Jerini AG for an equity purchase price of EUR328 million adding hereditary angioedema (HAE) product, FIRAZYR(R...St. Jude Finds 'Dancing' Hair Cells Are Key to Humans' Acute Hearing
... holds that amplification is produced by intricate vibrations of the bundles of cilia extending from the outer hair cells. The somatic motility theory proposes that the sound signal is amplified by an amplifier protein, called prestin, embedded in the hair cell membrane. Prestin is powered by voltages within ...Baker Institute report proposes strategies to ensure global energy security
A new policy report released by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy suggests strategies to deal with the current turmoil in the global energy markets, including the role of petrodollars in the U.S. credit bubble. "Sharp changes in energy prices are having dramatic effects on the...NOAA proposes rule to prevent commercial harvesting of krill
NOAAs Fisheries Service issued a proposed rule in the Federal Register to prohibit the future harvesting of krill between three and 200 miles of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. Krill are a small shrimp-like crustacean and a key source of nutrition in the marine food web. While...NOAA proposes federal regulations to protect black abalone
NOAA Fisheries Service filed with the Federal Register today a proposed rule to list black abalone, a marine mollusk coveted by fishermen and gourmets alike, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposal comes after NOAA Fisheries Service considered the report of a scientific ...Study proposes new theory of how viruses may contribute to cancer
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23 A new study suggests that viruses may contribute to cancer by causing excessive death to normal cells while promoting the growth of surviving cells with cancerous traits. Viruses may act as forces of natural selection by wiping out normal cells that support the replication of ...A study proposes a new universal rule to explain the equilibrium of plant populations
A study financed by the BBVA Foundation and conducted by scientists Carlos Duarte, Nuria Agust and Nuria Marb from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC University of the Balearic Islands) has allowed the first-time formulation of a universal rule that explains the equilibrium o...A study proposes a new universal rule to explain the equilibrium of plant populations
A study financed by the BBVA Foundation and conducted by scientists Carlos Duarte, Nuria Agust and Nuria Marb from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC University of the Balearic Islands) has allowed the first-time formulation of a universal rule that explains the equilibrium o...Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics
...ncrease in genomic data. All-versus-all gene comparisons previously a common practice will become infeasible. To reduce the size of the datasets, he proposes a proxy approach in which one protein from each protein family or one species from each genus represents the group. Taking this one step farther, all ...Researchers describe 'implausible' chemistry that produces herbicidal compound
...earing this week in the journal Nature , provides the first three-dimensional structure of the enzyme, hydroxyethylphosphonate dioxygenase (HEPD) and proposes a mechanism by which it performs its task. University of Illinois researchers first reported the enzyme in Nature Chemical Biology in 2007, said...Obama Budget Level Funds Career Technical Education
...ng that this Administration recognizes the need for an investment in career technical education, however I am disappointed that the President's budget proposes flat funding for Perkins," said Kimberly A. Green, executive director of the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education...Wildlife trade threatens public health and ecosystems
...Southeast Asia--a hotspot for emerging diseases." The research team calls for direct measures to decrease the risk of such "pathogen pollution" and proposes guidelines to protect human, animal, and ecosystem health. Recommendations: Stricter record keeping should be required to inform risk analysis...Syngenta Board Proposes Stefan Borgas to Become New Director
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Syngenta announced today that the Board of Directors will propose to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on April 21, 2009, to name Stefan Borgas as a new member of the Syngenta Board. Stefan Borgas (45) is Chief Executive Officer o...Roche Proposes to buy Full Stake in Genentech - Interview With Chairman
LONDON, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roche, the healthcare company, announced today that it has proposed to acquire the outstanding publicly held interest in biotech company Genentech for US$89.00 per share in cash, or a total payment of approximately US$43.7bn to equity holders of Genent...American Oriental Bioengineering Proposes Offering of $85 Million of Convertible Notes
NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. (NYSE: AOB ) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $85 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 to qualified institutional buyers ...Doyle proposes $10M to expand use of electronic medical records
A picture archiving and communications system. Image courtesy of GE Healthcare. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has announced that his budget will include $10 million for a grant and loan program to increase the use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. "I am committed to ensuring that all...Doyle proposes $2M for venture capital center
Milwaukee, Wis. - In a visit to the Menomonee Valley, Gov. Jim Doyle announced that he will include $2 million in his 2007-09 state budget for the new Wisconsin Venture Center. Doyle said the allocation would go to the public-private sector partnership that will connect entrepreneurs with so...Obama Budget Level Funds Career Technical Education
...ng that this Administration recognizes the need for an investment in career technical education, however I am disappointed that the President's budget proposes flat funding for Perkins," said Kimberly A. Green, executive director of the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education...Cytopia Letter to Progen Shareholders
...ose this because: The proposed share buy-back will be capped at $20 million, insufficient to meet likely take-up; The board proposes yet another long and costly Phase III program, this time in HIV; The Avexa HIV drug development costs are estimated at $155 million to complet...Progen Concedes Shareholder Requisitioned Meeting
... III trials and no partnering deal eventuated. The Avexa merger proposes to focus investment in the Phase III trials of Apricitabine (A... eventual failure of PI88 development, the current Progen board proposes a continuation of the same high risk business model under an Av...