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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), National Government, Diseases and Illnesses, National Institutes of Health, Finance
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GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion healthcare fraud settlement, U.S. says
Pharmaceutical drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to federal charges to resolve a slew of criminal and civil issues stemming from its use of kickbacks, mis-branding and other misconduct to market drugs such as Paxil,...
Tags: Diabetes, Pharmaceuticals, Trials, Bribery, Corporate Crime
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Lupus drug Benlysta passes second crucial test
Booster ShotsBenlysta, a new drug designed specifically to treat systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called simply lupus, has passed a second clinical trial, paving the way for it to become the first new treatment approved for lupus in 50 years. Its maker,...... -
Report: Bio-warfare adviser warned US of threat of new anthrax while on board of drug maker
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a...Tags: George W. Bush, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), National Government, Terrorism, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Timeline: An attorney and anthrax
May 2001: Washington lawyer Richard J. Danzig is appointed to the board of Human Genome Sciences Inc. in Rockville, Md. Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorists crash passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania. Soon...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), GlaxoSmithKline PLC, U.S. Congress, Anthrax
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: National Government, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Diseases and Illnesses, National Institutes of Health, Finance
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Human Genome to lay off 97 workers
Human Genome Sciences Inc., which was acquired for $3.6 billion by London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc in August, intends to lay off 97 employees in mid-December, and an additional but unspecified number of cuts are planned for next year, the company...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs
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Human Genome Sciences announces plan to lay off 114
Rockville-based Human Genome Sciences has warned state regulators that it plans to cut 114 jobs beginning in October, three months after striking a deal to be acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. Human Genome, which employs about 1,000 people in Rockville, could...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs
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GlaxoSmithKline to acquire Human Genome Sciences
After spurning a hostile takeover bid from GlaxoSmithKline PLC in April, Human Genome Sciences Inc. said Monday it agreed to be bought by the biopharmaceutical giant for a more lucrative offer valued at $3.6 billion.
GlaxoSmithKline boosted its offer for...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Diseases and Illnesses, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Diabetes, MedImmune Inc.
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Ripley's opens Odditorium at Harborplace
Ripley's Believe It or Not, one of the first of several new tenants opening for the summer tourist season at Harborplace in downtown Baltimore, will open Saturday in the Light Street Pavilion. Ripley Entertainment Inc. said exhibits at the Inner Harbor...Tags: Inner Harbor, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Productivity, Media Industry, Benlysta (drug)
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Consolidation wave poised to hit state's health care services, biopharma sectors
Like a one-two punch, two major Maryland employers in the health care service and pharmaceutical industries were the targets last week of multibillion-dollar acquisition deals. Both homegrown companies — Human Genome Sciences Inc. and Catalyst...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Pharmaceuticals, MedImmune Inc., Healthcare Industry
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Uncertain year ahead for U.S. stocks
Investors had plenty to keep them jittery in 2011. There were the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, economic woes in Europe, and, here at home, politically tinged fiscal showdowns in Washington over deep government spending cuts.
Still, the stock market...Tags: Productivity, T. Rowe Price Group Incorporated, Minor League Baseball, Financial Markets, Finance
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