RESEARCH ALERT-First Albany ups SuperGen to &quot;buy&quot; on drug deal
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First Albany Capital on Wednesday raised SuperGen Inc.&#39;s (SUPG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) stock rating to &quot;buy&quot; from &quot;neutral,&quot; following its cancer-drug deal with MGI Pharma Inc.
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Teva Pharmaceuticals of Israel, the largest generic-drug maker in the world, announced yesterday that it was acquiring the Rockville biotechnology company CoGenesys for $400 million.
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First Health Group Corp. is the latest in a series of acquisitions that Coventry has made to try to boost its leverage with hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies when negotiating costs.
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A Berkeley scientist, an Albany biotechnology startup and a unique San Francisco nonprofit drug company will announce today they have received a $43 million grant to develop a cheaper version of a Chinese herbal drug that is considered the most effective
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Shares of ID Biomedical jumped after the Canadian drug maker reported Monday that it signed long-term agreements with the three largest flu vaccine wholesalers in the United States following the current flu season&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 31--NORTH GREENBUSH -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is seeking to join its powerful new IBM Blue Gene supercomputer with one at Stony Brook University to do cutting-edge biotechnology research.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drugmakers.
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A new addition to an already successful drug promises good results for investors.
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Patriots safety Rodney Harrison first purchased human growth hormone in his initial season with the team, according to two sources involved in the Albany (N.Y.) district attorney's investigation.
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - U.S. drug company Biogen Idec  is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros  ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan, a newspaper reported on  Sunday.
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Pharmaceutical stocks were trading slightly higher after news Thursday that GlaxoSmithKline Plc was going to settle with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over allegations the company hid safety studies for its anti-depressant Paxil.
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New drug prospects push shares to a new 52-week high.
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SAN DIEGO -- A new obesity wonder pill could become one of the best selling drugs on the market if it lives up to its clinical trials.
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The deal, which must be approved by regulators, will make the German group the number one generics company in Scandinavia, a growing market worth about 600m last year, according to Merck.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. , a leading producer of HIV drugs, said yesterday it plans to acquire biotech firm Myogen Inc. for about $2.5 billion in cash, signaling a surprising expansion into treatments for pulmonary diseases.
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Argosy Gaming (AGY:NYSE - news - research) jumped in early trading Thursday, after the company agreed to be acquired by Penn National Gaming (PENN:Nasdaq - news - research) in a $1.
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Seeking to improve its drug discovery technology and establish a beachhead in the fertile Cambridge biotechnology cluster, drug giant Schering-Plough Corp. of Kenilworth, N.J., said it would buy NeoGenesis Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge for an undisclosed sum.