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Race differences in immune genes

February 29, 2008 on 1:23 pm | In Health | Comments Off Scientists find the way genes controlling the response of the immune system work varies from race to race.

Bat takes flight cue from insects

February 29, 2008 on 12:09 pm | In Science/Nature | Comments Off Bats use the same aerodynamic trick as insects to hover in one place, scientists report.

PM warns stores over carrier bags

February 29, 2008 on 12:08 pm | In UK Politics | Comments Off Gordon Brown warns retailers he will force them to cut down on plastic bag use if they do not act voluntarily.

Pfizer prefers South Korea to Japan

February 29, 2008 on 4:14 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, is diverting drug studies and tests from Japan as part of an industry push to avoid the nation's regulatory delays and higher costs.

The New York-based maker of Lipitor, the world's most-used cholesterol medicine, is increasing development spending in South Korea, said Akihisa Harada, head of clinical research at Pfizer's local unit in Tokyo. Many Japanese hospitals are unable to test dozens of people, making it faster and cheaper to recruit patients elsewhere in Asia, he said.

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Roche - Mircera: time to think things over

February 29, 2008 on 4:02 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off A federal judge in Massachusetts has tentatively barred Roche Holding from selling its anemia drug in the United States after a jury found it violated an Amgen Inc. patent.

But U.S. District Judge William Young said Thursday he is open to allowing sales of the drug Mircera if Roche agrees to certain conditions.

Those conditions include paying a slightly higher royalty to Amgen. Roche must also guarantee that it won't charge higher prices than those for existing anemia drugs.

The judge gave Roche three months to think about the conditions.

Switzerland-based Roche won approval to sell Mircera in November but sales have been held up by the patent dispute.

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