Astellas’ hostile bid for OSI heats up
The plot thickens: As OSI Pharmaceuticals’ board rejected that $3.5 billion takeover offer from Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharma–and the company started casting about for higher offers from other companies–a group of shareholders has sued the board to block the company’s “poison pill” provisions, which would scotch the deal. Meanwhile, Astellas…
Abbott CEO pay drops 7% to $26.2 mil
Abbott Laboratories chief Miles White ( photo )
National Alzheimer’s Project Act - S.3036

The National Alzheimer’s Project Act would create the country’s first national office responsible for leading government efforts to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that takes a tremendous emotional and economic toll on individuals and their families. “While there have…
Posture Correction Exercises to Treat Neck Pain

Neck pain affects many people; it can be the result of a range of conditions that affect the muscles, joints, ligaments, discs or nerves. Frequently poor posture contributes to this problem. Postural correction exercises are therefore used in the treatment of this problem. There are a range of posture correction…
Alzheimer’s Disease: How Stem Cell Research Will Make a Difference

If you are in New York you should consider attending this panel discussion on Alzheimer’s and Stem Cell research…. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room On behalf of The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) with T he Charles Evans Foundation and support from the Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® Initiative…
Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria: The Swine Flu Panic of 2009/ Spiegel
From the March 12, 2010 Spiegel (my thanks to Jane Bryant’s ” OneClick ” website for posting the story and to Digital Journal for covering it) What the Spiegel does is to confirm that it was WHO’s decision to move to Pandemic Phase 6 that caused preexisting contracts between nations…


