Recently, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Abilify (aripiprazole) for the treatment of irritability in pediatric patients having autistic disorder. Abilify can be used to treat children aged 6 to 17 years for symptoms of aggression toward others, deliberate self injury, temper tantrums and quick mood swings.  Bristol-Myers and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. jointly develop and distribute the drug in the U.S. and Europe. The FDA approval of Abilify for treating irritation in pediatric patients with autistic disorder is based on data from two eight-week late-stage studies in which Abilify significantly improved scores on the irritability subscale of the caregiver-rated Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC-I), compared to placebo.  The most common adverse affects were sedation, fatigue, vomiting, somnolence, tremor and pyrexia. However, the efficacy of Abilify for the maintenance treatment of irritability associated with autistic disorder was not ...

TODAY: Merkel condemns activist murder; explosive violence in Caucasus; South Ossetians encouraged to disarm.  Medvedev merciless on Yushchenko; Venezuela and Russia tighten relations; military may scrap underperforming missile.  'Absolutely unacceptable' is how Chancellor Angela Merkel described the recent murders of NGO worker Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband  and instructed Medvedev that 'actions must also follow'.  Medvedev has ordered Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to punish those responsible for the slayings.  The end of last week andthr beginning of this week are particularly bloody in the Caucasus, with over twenty people killed in different shootouts.  The New York Times reports that South Ossetian citizens, for whom 'a weapon is an essential part of daily life', are being ...

Pharmaceuticals and dermatology go hand in hand. Existing skin care products cover a wide range of capabilities. Some are to aide with an allergic reaction. Some slow the elasticity process of aging. Some offer concealment to blemishes. Whatever the type used, this industry is huge, really huge. Even as we live in such uncertain times, the salon and skin care industries are running at peak performance. It is not just one or two areas of that market doing well either, it is abroad. Because of technology accompanied by a host of pharmaceutical scientists, researchers, and those dedicated to the skin care industry, it is constantly blooming with new activity.

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by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /Animated by last weeks export driven positive PMI result, a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8588125"Sweden has now taken poll position in the quantitative easing process/a and has committed to keeping 0.25% rates on hold till the end of 2010 at least. Mind you, they are lucky enough to have Princeton economist and avid deflation fighter a href="http://www.princeton.edu/svensson/"Lars Svensson/a in there on the board to steer them through all this. Good for Swedish growth, Krona negative, great for exports. Let's go, let's go, let's go.br / br /br /br /blockquoteSweden's central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to a new record low of 0.25 percent in a surprise move on Thursday, and said it would offer one-year loans to banks to foster lending. The Riksbank said it expected interest rates to remain at that level until late 2010. Deputy Governor Lars Svensson disagreed with the decision ...

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The attentive reader may recall that Sergei Lavrov got a little bit prickly in response to U.S. sanctions on the state arms exporter Rosoboronexport. During yesterday's press debriefing at the State Department, one journalist got a brief response out of Sean McCormack, which shows that the U.S. is getting bit annoyed with Russia's insistence that its helping out on Iran is seen as "a favor" rather than a mutual interest. He's got a point. QUESTION: Sean, kind of old business from Friday. Sergey Lavrov expressed some irritation about the sanctions that the United States imposed against that Russian export firm Rosoboronexport or whatever. MR. MCCORMACK: Yeah. QUESTION: And he said that it was a case of unilateralism vis-à-vis Iran and that this will cause Russia to sort of approach the P5+1 process with diminished zeal. And I was wondering, have they communicated that to you? MR. MCCORMACK: I don’t ...

From time to time, we receive occasional contributions from the highly respected Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who heads up Russia's Rule of Law Institute. Below is his take on the invasion of Georgia. Markelov's article does not necessarily represent the opinion of Robert Amsterdam, this blog, or its editors. The immediate battle area By Stanislav Markelov Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. We can rejoice, we have carried out the desire of our powers in full and are getting used to the dispatches from the front like to competitions going on the news before the Olympic games. For now they still tug at the heartstrings, but a few years will go by and just like with the war in Chechnya, we will look with irritation at the latest propagandistic brew ...