Brinker International Board Declares Common Dividend.
DALLAS, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors for Brinker International, Inc. yesterday declared a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per share on the common stock of the company. The dividend will be paid on March 25, 2009 to shareholders of record as of March 12, 2009....

NexBio Completes First-in-Man Clinical Trial With DAS181 (Fludase(R)) and Strengthens Clinical Leadership.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- NexBio announces the completion of its First-In-Man clinical trial of DAS181 (Fludase(R)), an investigational drug candidate for influenza. The single-dose, escalating Phase I study completed in December 2008 was designed to assess DAS181 safety in healthy subjects. The study drug was well tolerated...

Six Percent of Computers Scanned by Panda Security are Infected with the Conficker Worm.
Infections detected in more than 80 countries; United States, Taiwan and Brazil are among the most affected regions GLENDALE, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today revealed that almost six percent (5.77 percent) of the two million computers they scanned...

IDRI Collaborates with the Brazilian Butantan Institute To Develop Novel Vaccines Against Leishmaniasis.
SEATTLE, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) announced it has granted the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research institution, an exclusive license in Latin America and a non-exclusive license in the rest of the world to use two of IDRI's lead vaccine antigen candidates for the...

Vaccine Against the Chikungunya Virus in Development by a Public-Private Partnership.
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has formed a consortium with Wageningen University, Erasmus University Medical Centre and Nobilon, a subsidiary of Schering-Plough, to develop a 'proof of concept' vaccine against the Chikungunya virus. This vaccine aims to reduce the rate of Chikungunya...

Survival of Vibrio cholerae O139 in association with Anabaena variabilis in four different microcosoms.
INTRODUCTION Cholera which is a major public-health problem in developing countries, caused by infection of the intestine with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae (1). Inhealth children, HIV patients are at vulnerable risk of death if infected by this disease. Even this disease can kill a healthy adult within hours....

Novavax Presents Favorable Results from Phase I/IIa Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Program at World Health Organization Conference.
VLP Vaccine - Coupled with Innovative Manufacturing - Has Potential to Address Gaps in Global Pandemic Preparedness ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the 5th World Health Organization Meeting on Evaluation of Pandemic Influenza Prototype Vaccines in Clinical Trials, Novavax, Inc. announced favorable results from the...

Dr. John Stephen Osika, HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Expert, Joins Abt Associates.
Public Health Physician Spent Last 10 Years Helping Implement World Bank HIV/AIDS and Malaria Initiatives CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Abt Associates announced that Dr. John Osika has joined the company as a Principal Associate and HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Advisor. Dr. Osika, a board certified...

Amylin Pharmaceuticals Highlights 2009 Value Creation Opportunities.
Product and Operational Targets Presented At JPMorgan Healthcare Conference SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced product and operational targets for 2009 that provide the opportunity to transform diabetes and obesity treatment and position the Company to be cash flow positive by the...

Clostridium difficile: the not so sporadic spore.
Infection with Clostridium difficile is increasing in both incidence and severity and is becoming more difficult to treat. Recent reports of a more virulent and more resistant strain of C. difficile causing epidemics in both North America and Europe have increased awareness of the importance of early recognition of...