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• Stranger Than Fiction Life Insurance Underwriting!

  
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  Time to play life insurance underwriting, truth or lie? I want to launch into this stating that I don’t advocate lying on life insurance applications for two reasons, well, two main reasons. First, withholding relevant underwriting information if you get away with it, puts your approved life insurance policy for ...
  6 days ago

• FDA Delay on New Drug Triggers Layoffs at San Diego’s Zogenix

  
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  Bruce V. Bigelow Pressed by unexpected delays in a ruling from the FDA, San Diego-based Zogenix (NASDAQ: ZGNX ) says it has laid off 55 employees—or 37 percent of its workforce—in an effort to conserve cash through the summer. The pharmaceutical company, which specializes in developing drugs for pain and ...
  1 week ago

• Waking up to opioids and stopping the cycle of addiction

  
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  In this special program, we hear from expert physicians and former prescription pain addicts to explore how our use of opioids to treat pain has led to opioid abuse and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Guests include:Andy Chambers, M.D., a board certified addictionologist with the Indiana University School of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alkermes Unveils Full Mid-Stage Data On Depression Drug

  
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  Ben Fidler Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS ) has released all the details from a mid-stage clinical trial on a drug that attacks depression in a whole new way, giving the company a shot to add a potentially big moneymaker to its portfolio should the results hold up in a bigger study. The Dublin, Ireland and Waltham, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Addiction to… Medicine?!?

  
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  Prescription opioids – drugs that work similarly to opium, including OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and others – are the number-one cause of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. That includes overdoses from illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine. In 2010, prescription opioids accounted for 44 percent of all U.S. ...
  3 weeks ago

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