UPDATE 1-EU panel recommends against PTC muscular disorder drug

PTC Therapeutics Inc said a committee of the European Medicines Agency recommended against a conditional approval to its drug for the treatment of a rare muscular disorder, sending its shares down nearly 30 percent in premarket trading.

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Biotech Stock Mailbag: Prana Biotech

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PTC Therapeutics Provides Update on CHMP Opinion for Conditional...

The response from the CHMP is consistent with the Company's previous guidance concerning the substantial risks regarding conditional EMA approval and underscores the importance of PTC's work in completing the ongoing confirmatory Phase 3 clinical trial.

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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Prices Underwritten Public Offering Raising $43.5 Million

NEW YORK , Jan. 24, 2014 -- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 2,898,550 shares of its common stock at a price of $15.00 per share.

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Venaxis Completes Patient Enrollment in Pivotal Clinical Trial of APPY1? Test

Venaxis expects to announce top-line data following the required patient follow-up period and subsequent database lock and required analysis of the data.

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RE: optional parm in CLLE

I haven't seen a mention of the use of MONMSG to check for these parameters. I never considered this before, but I just tested this , and this method gets an Ugh, but If you really HAD to... I just did this: CHGVAR &VALUE3 &PARAMETER3 MONMSG MCH3601 EXEC SNDPGMMSG MSG TOPGMQ ENDDO ENDPGM Worked at least.

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The ObamaCare Carnival of Perverse Incentives

With fewer glitches to deter them, millions of Americans are now logging on to the ObamaCare health insurance exchange websites.

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Family asks to take pregnant, brain-dead woman off life support

Attorneys for a Fort Worth-area family will ask a judge Friday to allow a pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman to be removed from life support, despite hospital opposition.

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5 Hollywood Moments In The Latest U.S. Health Care Spending Numbers

Actuarial reports about stable growth in health costs don't sound as interesting as suspicious traffic jams or the Kardashian divorce.

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Gov's last budget leaves room for local input

Gov. Deval Patrick has disclosed the details of his final budget proposal, which may be more noteworthy for what it doesn't include.

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City shoplifting suspect pleads to be freed

A resident accused of assaulting a loss-prevention officer at Marshall's in Lowell pleaded with a judge let her remain free Thursday.

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Family asks to take pregnant, brain-dead woman off life support

Attorneys for a Fort Worth-area family will ask a judge Friday to allow a pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman to be removed from life support, despite hospital opposition.

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W. Pa. gets prison term for dead mom's benefits

A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for collecting more than $300,000 worth of Social Security benefits meant for his mother - who died more than 40 years ago.

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Man gets life plus 9 to 18 years in Pa. murder

A man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the death of a man killed while sitting in a vehicle in suburban Philadelphia a year ago.

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Judge Thomas Kelley

Police have filed three summary traffic citations against York County Common Pleas Judge Thomas H. Kelley VI after he crashed his car and failed to notify police.

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Premium payment controversy almost prevents dying cancer patient from getting Obamacare

The 59-year-old Chittenango woman is dying of multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.

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Coakley tells business leaders minimum-wage hike needed

Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor, used a speech to business leaders Thursday to call for an immediate increase in the minimum wage.

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Is tally of cancellations vs. newly insured a mission impossiblea ?

Have more people had their insurance cancelled under Obamacare compared to those who have been able to obtain private insurance under the health care law? For example, during a Tuesday interview on Fox News, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman said "more than 10 times as many people have had their insurance canceled, as compared to those who have been able to ... (more)

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What will LePage say during his State of the State Address?

Republican Gov. Paul LePage's State of the State Address next month will reaffirm some of the priorities he's been spearheading since taking office and highlight some of his proudest accomplishments.

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Selectmen: Fire station on TM warrant

A proposal for a new fire station headquarters will be going before voters at May's Annual Town Meeting, selectmen decided at their meeting Jan. 14. The $11.3 million project was bumped from November's Special Town Meeting warrant only an hour before the meeting, due to legal concerns about the project not being added to the town's capital plan.

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Five questions for Obama's 2014 State of the Union address

... last year ended brutally for Obama as a victory in the shutdown showdown with Republicans was eclipsed by the healthcare law's tortuous rollout, which had Democrats for a time wondering if the bad news would end. Obama will surely talk about the ...

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Medicaid expansion's impact on ER visits has complex causes

Carolyn Colburn, 38, was on Medicaid when she was pregnant with her son but was dropped soon after he was born 14 years ago.

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New Obama budget coming March 4

The Obama administration will send its Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal to Congress on March 4, about a month past deadline.

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The Other World Of The Obamacare Opponents

For all its many flaws Obamacare will prove to be a great thing for the simple reason that it will guarantee most of the population affordable health care insurance.

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TherapeuticsMD Initiates Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Its Progesterone...

TherapeuticsMD, Inc. , a women's healthcare company , announced today that it has initiated the SPRY Trial, a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of TX 12-002-HR, its oral progesterone candidate for secondary amenorrhea, a condition treated to maintain fertility in young premenopausal ... (more)

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DYCHE | Beshear's Budget Baloney

By: John David Dyche WDRB Contributor Governor Beshear recently presented his biennial budget to the General Assembly.

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PA tbag governor Corbett confronted by GOPer, shames himself yet again...

PA was overswept by a plague of t baggers in the 2010 election...they control both houses of the legislature and the governor's office, and they have made a shambles of our state's economy and screwed our residents at every opportunity.

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Ariz. GOP activists seek to censure McCainAriz. GOP activists seek to ...

Some Republicans want the state GOP to censure U.S. Sen. John McCain for what they call his "long and terrible record of drafting, co-sponsoring and voting for "legislation best associated with liberal Democrats."

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W. Pa. gets prison term for dead mom's benefits

A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for collecting more than $300,000 worth of Social Security benefits meant for his mother - who died more than 40 years ago.

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Man charged in death of 3-month-old in central Pa.

A 33-year-old central Pennsylvania man is facing criminal homicide charges after a 3-month-old girl died from head trauma.

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