الأربعاء، 15 يونيو 2011
Proteon Therapeutics gets $12M in venture capital - Business First of Buffalo:
The funding came primarily from twonew investors, Proteon said in a Thursdahy release: in Wayne, Pa., and the Wellesley Hills, office of . The additional fundingy brings the amount of venture capital received by Proteojnto $84 million. Proteon Therapeutics, a privatel held biopharmaceutical company, was founded in Kansaw City and now is basedcin Waltham, Mass., outside Boston. Its research facilitiesx remain inKansas City. Proteon is developing a blood vessel-dilatinyg drug candidate. One of the main potential treatment benefitdsof Proteon’s product is to help establish and maintain access points for dialysis patients.
Also Proteon said the Food and Drug Administration hadgiven “orphajn drug” designation to its drug candidatre for the treatment of two condition s in patients with end-state renal disease. Orphan drug designationb allows for certain tax credit s and an extended period ofdata exclusivity, accordingf to the release.
الاثنين، 13 يونيو 2011
Jim Harbaugh Doesn't Listen, Talks Up Alex Smith Some More - SB Nation
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الجمعة، 10 يونيو 2011
Delphi salaried retirees eye pension suit - Dayton Business Journal:
If not stopped, retirees fear that the move coulds drastically cut the value ofyounger ex-white collard workers’ pensions by as much as 50 percent, said Jamed Frost of Clarence, N.Y., a board membe r and organizer of the Delphi Salaried Retiree The legal action is being spearheadeds by 100 to 200 retirees in Ohio who belongy to the 5,400-member associatiob but who are acting on theif own, Frost said. “(The DSRA is) serving as suppor t by gathering information and sharin it with all our members and by contacting legislators aroundfthe country,” Frost said.
“We are not starting our own action because it would duplicate what they are The opposition sprang out of the modified reorganizatio n plan Delphi disclosed onJune 1. The to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said it wouldd cancel its pension obligations and have assum e thehourly workers’ pensions and the government take over the salariesd employees’ plan. Frost, who worked at GM for 25 year s and at Delphifor six, said hourlyt workers’ pensions won’t be affecte d “at least in the short term” but salariedc workers who retired at 55 could lose half the valude of theirs. “We want our pensionsa also to be transferredto GM,” he said.
The suit wouled charge Delphi, GM, the II and the U.S. Treasurg with collusion againstthe retirees. In the reorganizationb plan for Delphi, GM’s former parts II LLC — a unit of Platinum Equit y — would acquire and operatre Delphi’s U.S. and non-U.S. businesses by supplying $3.6 billionb in capital. Delphi was formed in 1999 when GM spun off its partzmanufacturing division. The Troy, Mich.,-based company, GM’s larges supplier, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection inOctoberf 2005.
الأربعاء، 8 يونيو 2011
Scandal and Stupidity Compete for Press Attention as Rome Burns - Berkeley Daily Planet
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الاثنين، 6 يونيو 2011
السبت، 4 يونيو 2011
Pet Health: Trustworthy pet website you will enjoy - Wooster Daily Record
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الأربعاء، 1 يونيو 2011
Mothers who take less maternity leave may breastfeed less too - Los Angeles Times
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