Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology

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Vitae Pharmaceuticals links up with Boehringer Ingelheim for 2nd R&D area: Often, what is billed as a $300 million strategic partnership between Big Pharma and a small drug developer winds up in an amicable split years down the road with substantially less cash having changed hands.
That’s what makes yesterday’s announcement by Fort Washington’s Vitae Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim so interesting. The two agreed to team up on new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
The deal comes 20 months after the same two companies agreed to collaborate on diabetes medicines.
Wyeth accused of overcharging for drug: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department yesterday accused Wyeth, one of the nation's biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for a stomach-acid drug.

Chemical BPA in workers linked to sex problems: Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday.
US health care sector is a fairly green giant: Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases.
Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures: EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks.
AMA votes to seek repeal of 'don't ask,don't tell': The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.