Topic: Pennsylvania

Ex-hedge fund manager charged with insider trading

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager has been accused by a U.S. regulator of illegal insider trading in MedImmune Inc securities prior to the acquisition of the pharmaceutical company by Britain's AstraZeneca Plc.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in a ...

Pfizer-Wyeth: Which Sites Are Closing, Which Are Staying Open?

The Pfizer-Wyeth deal closed yesterday with lots of uncertainty about how thousands of planned job cuts would shake out. Wyeth's pharmaceutical headquarters in Collegeville, Pennsylvania will become the headquarters for Pfizer's specialty-care unit, which includes vaccines and specialty drugs, the Inquirer says.. ...

US painter Andrew Wyeth dies

US painter Andrew Wyeth has died at his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 91, a spokeswoman at the Brandywine River Museum, which has an extensive collection of his work, said Friday.Wyeth had been suffering from a " slight illness" and ...

Health Highlights: March 2, 2008

The Associated Press reports that Dryvax, developed by the pharmaceutical company Wyeth in the late 1800s, was actually used quite recently -- in 2003 -- to help stem an outbreak of monkey pox in the United States. No one in the United ...

New reps, new rap: The counter-detailers

Midway through a visit with a physician, drug rep Leigh Bradshaw, RN, noticed the doctor's posture change. "I was at Grand Rounds last week, and they were saying exactly the same thing," Bradshaw recalls the doctor saying with amazement. Accustomed to a ...