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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Longtime biotech exec Dick Brewer dies from multiple myeloma

Richard Brewer, a longtime biotech executive who helped to build companies such as Scios Inc., Dendreon Corp. and Nile Therapeutics Inc., died Wednesday morning from multiple myeloma.http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2012/08/richard-dick-brewer-dendreon-nile-died.html

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Scios pleads guilty for misbranding heart failure drug, fined $85M

Scios Inc. has agreed pay an $85 million criminal fine, as it pleaded guilty this week to misbranding a heart-failure drug.
Scios, a Fremont-based subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), will pay the fine to the U.S. government as part of a plea agreement. Scios pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor for introducing the drug Natrecor for a use that was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Some of my favorite stories.

• "The fight of his life" (2007)

Last year Mike Homer helped raise the money for 2,000 medical research computers. Now researchers are using that equipment in an attempt to save his life.

• "For reporter, CJD is more than a story" (2007)

Seven years ago -- nearly to the day -- my mother died of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

• "A son's YouTube plea for Avastin" (2010)

Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother's fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.

• "New device could knock out old dialysis technology" (2011)

Shuvo Roy has all the makings for the world's first implantable artificial kidney, thanks to nanotechnology and a web of nationwide collaborations.

All he needs now is $20 million.