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Acorda shares fall on Biogen partnership

Jul. 1, 2009
Shares of Acorda Therapeutics Inc. fell Wednesday after the company gave Biogen Idec Inc. overseas rights to the experimental multiple sclerosis drug Fampridine-SR, though investors have been hoping for a buyout, according to a JPMorgan analyst. The stock...
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Biogen Idec to lay off hundreds

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Analyst says drug may suppress immunity

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Third PML case linked to Tysabri

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 31 (UPI) -- Biogen Idec Inc. of Boston and its Irish partner revealed Thursday a third person who got a rare but deadly brain disease after taking Tysabri.

Biogen, Elan suspend MS drug Tysabri

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Drug makers Biogen Idec of Cambridge, Mass., and Britain's Elan Monday suspended sales of their multiple sclerosis drug after one user died.

Biogen and Idec Pharmaceuticals merge

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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic