Chimerix to Present at 32nd Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

Chimerix to Present at 32nd Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

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… novel, oral antivirals in areas of high unmet medical need, today announced that Kenneth I. Moch, President and CEO of Chimerix, will present at the 32nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 12:30pm PST (3:30pm …
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'Don't eat me' cancer drug work at Stanford wins .7 million CIRM grant

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The award is one of six totaling $ 61.1 million from the San Francisco-based California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — and the only one from the Bay Area — handed out Thursday. The winners' treatments target diseases like sickle cell disease …
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Editorial roundup: VA, do better with addictive drugs

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Glantz followed up his September investigation with a report that physicians at the San Francisco VA Medical Center routinely renewed prescriptions for painkillers without seeing the patients. … The VA says the medical center is resolving the issues …
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Feds approve two new hepatitis C meds

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"With the recent approval of Sovaldi and Olysio, we have entered the highly promising hepatitis C treatment era that we've all been waiting for," Ryan Clary, director of public policy for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, told the Bay Area …
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