Healthcare

B-cycle is helping Chicago residents and visitors increase daily activity and reduce carbon emissions with a major U.S. City bike-sharing system, Chicago B-cycle. Chicago B-cycle will launch with 100 bicycles at six B-stations around the city, ...

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 ...

Medistem Inc. announced today publication of a peer reviewed paper identifying a molecule found on the company's lead product, the universal donor Endometrial Regenerative Cell , as a key component of cellular escape from immune attack. The study, ...

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 ...

BioScrip, Inc. today announced that it will present at the BMO Capital Markets 10th Annual Focus on Healthcare Conference on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in New York City.