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- Allovectin-7(R) May ffer Patients a New ption for Advanced Melanoma.
- How To Keep Your Job nshore
- San Francisco Business Times:
- AHRQ patient clinician guides address antidepressant treatments.(Agen…
- Business First of Buffalo:
- PHC Inc. to Present at Noble Financial’s ‘Two-Double-…

Allovectin-7(R) May ffer Patients a New ption for Advanced Melanoma.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 20, 2007
(20-AUG-07) Business Wire. — Skin cancer specialists at the Horizon Institute.

How To Keep Your Job nshore
BusinessWeek – Aug 20, 2007
Yet some professional jobs that are moving offshore require elite skills and that makes the task of holding on to your position trickier. Accenture the consulting giant has a team of chemists physicians statisticians and pharmacists in Bangalore helping Western pharmaceutical companies review and document the results of clinical trials. Emboldened by the results Accenture (ACN) achieved for them Wyeth executives have opened a clinical research lab in Bangalore where they design new drug-testing protocols. When the lights go out at the company’s research center in Collegeville Pa. its Indian researchers start their day in Bangalore—performing exactly the same work. ne of the keys to career security at U.

San Francisco Business Times:
Bizjournals.com – Aug 20, 2007
The Palo Alto pharmaceutical company also hired James Butler formerly of Alza as senior vice president for marketing and Ron Haak also formerly of Alza as senior vice president for technology development. Medivation hired Robert Elfont as vice president of clinical development. Elfon joins the San Francisco biopharmaceutical company from Roche Pharmaceuticals where he was clinical research and licensing liaison neuroscience. Metabolex hired Charles McWherter as senior vice president responsible for research and preclinical development. McWherter joins the Hayward company from Pfizer where he was vice president and head of the cardiovascular therapeutic area. Insurance Hilb Rogal & Hobbs in San Francisco hired Eleanor Howell as senior vice president of casualty risk management for the region. Howell joins the insurance brokerage firm from Travelers Excess Casualty where she was vice president in the Umbrella and Excess Casualty Division.

AHRQ patient clinician guides address antidepressant treatments.(Agen…
Free with registration – Mental Health Weekly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 20, 2007
Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) this month released two new guides with the aim of helping adults and clinicians make decisions related to depression treatments. The publication Choosing Antidepressants for Adults: Clinicians Guide summarizes clinical research comparing the effectiveness and safety of commonly used antidepressants for adults with major depression. The medications included in the guide are the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and other agents that have been approved for depression in this country over the past 20 years. The guide Antidepressant Medicines: A Guide for Adults with Depression covers common medicines for depression the side effects and.

Business First of Buffalo:
Bizjournals.com – Aug 20, 2007
Lawrence Castellani of Freeman Spogli & Co. and Dorcas Colvin of Buffalo State College have been elected to the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation board of trustees. The foundation receives and administers funds supporting scientific and clinical research medical care and patient-related activities at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. David Adams joined Hurwitz & Fine PC in the litigation department. Jody Briandi who has practiced law as an associate there since 1997 has been named a member of the firm. Tasha Dandridge joined as an associate in the firm’s litigation department. Paul Herlan has been named director of business development at Lumsden & McCormick LLP.

PHC Inc. to Present at Noble Financial’s ‘Two-Double-…
prnewswire.com – Aug 20, 2007
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