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    By Melly Alazraki

    | 4:00PM 11/19/2009
    AstraZeneca (AZN) has had a good week with its anticlotting drug Brilinta (ticagrelor). It impressed many observers by announcing positive results of a late-stage head-to-head study and a mid-stage study for Brilinta, and on Thursday, it said it had filed for Food and Drug Administration approval....

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 5:00PM 11/11/2009
    It seems that when it comes to Aranesp, its blockbuster anemia drug, Amgen (AMGN) just can't catch a break, nor for that matter, create one. Recently, Amgen was hit with a double whammy -- a lawsuit and an unfavorable study of the drug. On Tuesday, yet another study confirmed that cancer patients...

    By Aaron Crowe

    | 6:00PM 2/20/2009
    The Stanford Blood Center has come up with a new way to get people to donate blood: Job hunting help for the unemployed. Job hunting hurts, much like the prick of a needle can hurt. But the pain shouldn't be enough to stop job seekers from donating something that can save a life. For 300...