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March 17, 2000

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Shire and D-Pharm reach agreement for development of DP-VPA for epilepsy

FDA issues action letter to Sonus for EchoGen

Seattle Genetics updates MAb program

Insmed and Taisho sign letter of intent for INS-1

The FDA grants orphan drug status for Avant's lead complement inhibitor

sNDA for Nolvadex in DCIS to undergo priority review

New findings could mean an end to a tragic illness

New dosing, formulations investigated for T-20

SangStat files NDA in Canada for Thymoglobulin

Palatin discontinues merger discussions with Molecular Biosystems

Antisoma takes up another product from ICRF for clinical development

Low-dose M-Vax shows promise in stage III metastatic melanoma

ImClone achieves milestone in IMC-C225 agreement with Merck KGaA

Amides synthesized at AstraZeneca useful for cytokine-mediated diseases

SB continues to search for novel anticonvulsants

Drugs for hyperlipidemia in development at Nippon Soda

Picower Institute presents new immunotherapeutic anticancer agents

Sigma-Tau prepares improved atypical antipsychotic agents

Anti-VEGF antisense oligonucleotides in the Aventis pipeline

News from ASCPT: Adolor presents positive clinical data on ADL-8-2698

Spiropentane nucleoside analogues designed and tested for antiviral activity

Clinical results supporting efficacy of newer generation COX-2 inhibitor presented at ASCPT

More MARISA results reported at ACC meeting by CV Therapeutics and collaborators

SmithKline Beecham's Avandia receives positive opinion from CPMP

Anticancer activity, pharmacokinetics and safety of E-7869

Impressive evidence for antiatherosclerotic efficacy of VasoCare therapy presented at ACC

Georgetown scientists describe mechanism of action of bertosamil

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