State Roundup: Texas Hospitals Spar Over Indigent Care Payments

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More than a dozen have filed lawsuits, but most have been put on hold because the supplier of the tainted drugs filed for bankruptcy late last year. Billing statements reviewed by The Tennessean for three patients show the amounts charged for treatment …
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Phase 1 ALS trial is first to test antisense treatment of neurodegenerative …

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Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Washington University School of Medicine report that infusion of an antisense oligonucleotide against SOD1, the first gene to be associated with familial ALS, had no serious adverse effects …
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Business briefs

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The privately held company's technology comes from two laboratories that specialize in nanotechnology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pfizer will make initial payments of roughly $ 50 million, plus $ 160 … The …
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Receptos Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

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Receptos is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic candidates for the treatment of immune and metabolic diseases. The company's lead program, RPC1063, is a sphingosine 1-phosphate 1 receptor (S1P1R) small molecule modulator …
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