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WuXi PharmaTech Inc. announced today that its previously announced transaction with Charles River Laboratories International Inc. has been terminated by mutual agreement due to Charles River shareholder opposition. Under the terms of the ...

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. , a leading global provider of research models and associated services and of preclinical drug development services, today announced that it has mutually agreed with WuXi PharmaTech Inc. to terminate ...

Today, Circuit Court Judge James Shelfer removed Amendment 9--modeled after the American Legislative Exchange Council's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act now proposed in 42 states--from the November ballot. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum ...

Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. announced that results from its COR-I trial of Contrave® were published online today in the journal Lancet. COR-I was the largest of the four, 56-week, Phase 3 trials supporting the New Drug Application for Contrave, ...

Wright Medical Group, Inc. , a global orthopaedic medical device company, is pleased to announce the launch of the EVOLUTION Medial- Pivot Knee System. The EVOLUTION Knee System represents Wright's next generation in medial-pivot knees, featuring ...

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on behalf of purchasers of the common stock ...

Depomed, Inc. announced today that it will release second quarter 2010 financial results after the market closes Thursday, August 5, 2010. The company will host a conference call beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss its results.

Actient Pharmaceuticals, LLC , a portfolio company of GTCR, announced today the company successfully completed a transaction to license and acquire six pharmaceutical products from UCB, Inc., a subsidiary of UCB SA , an international ...