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Study: American Consumers Reducing Spending on Most Categories Except Gas ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Pharmacy (25%) 14. Supermarket/Grocery (18%) 15. Gas Stations (16%) "The economy is affecting American consumers just as we expected with specific segments continuing to be challenged," said Dr. Gary Edwards, chief customer officer, Empathica.

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Pharmacist named one of the country's best jobs
St. Louis American
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pharmacy field is expected to grow by 25 percent by 2020 and add nearly 70000 new jobs. A career in pharmacy is one of the top careers in the country, according to rankings released by US News and World ...

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Millinocket pharmacy robber gets 12-year sentence
WGME
Send us your pictures and video of news events, see them on our website, and maybe even see them on the news! Ken and Mike from Newsradio 560 WGAN join the Daybreak team every morning to discuss the hot issues of the day. YOU CAN HELP catch Maine's ...

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All Share Services
Salon
At the end of 2011, 36 percent of all prescriptions were electronic ? the doctor wrote it by computer and sent it directly to the pharmacy with the push of a button, the report found. That's up from 22 percent of prescriptions that were paperless a ...

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Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announces Data Presentations at 48th American Society of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A Phase 1/2 study being conducted by Onyx's partner Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is evaluating Kyprolis in Japanese patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Nexavar is approved in the US for the treatment of patients with unresectable liver ...
Today's Bio Pharma ASCO AbstractsSeeking Alpha
48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Bayer ...PharmaLive.com (press release)
Reminder: Exelixis Announces Data Presentations, Webcast of Investor Briefing ...EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Money Morning
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Hindu Business Line

Piramal acquires Decision Resources Group, US analytics company, for $635 mn
Times of India
MUMBAI: Ajay Piramal on Wednesday took the first big step towards building a global pharma company focused on original discovery and intellectual property rights by buying an American health information provider capable of analysing and predicting ...
Piramal buys US pharma analytics firm for $635 mFinancial Express

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Two-Drug Combo May Be Safe for Melanoma Treatment
U.S. News & World Report
By Randy Dotinga WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- A preliminary, first-stage study funded by a pharmaceutical company shows promising results for an experimental double-drug therapy for melanoma. The two drugs, known as dabrafenib and trametinib, ...

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Xconomy

AVEO and Astellas Announce Positive Findings from TIVO-1 Superiority Study of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Active Targeted Agent in First-Line Advanced RCC - AVEO Oncology (NASDAQ:AVEO) and Astellas Pharma Inc. today announced that detailed data from TIVO-1 (Tivozanib Versus Sorafenib in 1st line Advanced RCC), will be presented on June 2 in an oral session ...
Astellas & AVEO: Tivozanib Successfully Demonstrates the Longest Reported ...PharmiWeb.com (press release)

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Hondurans protest DEA leave after shooting
WOI
The anger is aimed at both Honduran authorities and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, which confirmed on Wednesday that some of its agents were on a US-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when the shooting happened Friday on the Patuca ...

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Top Retailers in 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend® Study: Walgreens is Drug Store ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Although general merchandisers such as Walmart, Target, Costco, and Kmart have rolled out value pharmacy departments, American consumers indicate they are more likely to purchase from more traditional drug stores like Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid, ...

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CVS Caremark ups outlook, grabs Walgreen patrons
Reuters
Walgreen, the largest US drugstore chain, stopped filling prescriptions for patients of Express Scripts (ESRX.O), a pharmacy benefits manager, at the end of 2011. CVS, with more than 7352 US stores, is among the retailers benefiting as Express Scripts ...
CVS Caremark 1Q profit jumps 9 percentBusinessWeek

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Top Retailers in 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend® Study: Walgreens is Drug Store ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Although general merchandisers such as Walmart, Target, Costco, and Kmart have rolled out value pharmacy departments, American consumers indicate they are more likely to purchase from more traditional drug stores like Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid, ...
Speedway and Costco Rank High for ServicesConvenience Store Decisions

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Dr. Megan Sassin Honored by American Chemical Society with Rising Star Award
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (press release)
Dr. Megan Sassin, a chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory, has been honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with a Rising Star Award. ACS's Women Chemists Committee has established the award to recognize exceptional mid-career women chemists ...



A Smartphone that Can Sniff out Sickness?
Technology Review (blog)
?You wouldn't need to send samples off to a lab, you would immediately be able to start treatment,? she explains near the end of this cool video from the American Chemical Society. Just the idea that you can smell illness--never mind the part about ...

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BBC News

Shark attacks: A magnetic solution?
BBC News
Video courtesy of PRI's The World An American chemist says he's found a substance - several, in fact - that can repel some of the most fearsome predators in the ocean. He wants to use his discovery to protect them, and us. Eric Stroud stands on a pier ...
Shark repellent discoveredWanderlust

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The Cutting Edge

American Chemical Society
The Cutting Edge
Daniel G. Nocera points out that the artificial leaf responds to the vision of a famous Italian chemist who, in 1912, predicted that scientists one day would uncover the ?guarded secret of plants.? The most important of those, Nocera says, ...

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