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Articles in June 30, 2008 issue of MondayMorning

• Senate fails to avert Medicare cuts for doctor fees
• Barrier doubles after $148 million Stiefel buyout
• Wireless hospital systems can disrupt medical devices
• AspenBio Pharma Inc
• Analysts say companies to gain from obesity boom
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Barr and Mylan defeat Boehringer patent
• Biovail, Melnyk election dispute heads to court
• AstraZeneca Plc
• Roche Holding Ag
• Merck & Co.'s
• Parexel International Corp
• Johnson & Johnson won approval to expand the use of its attention deficit hyperactivity pill Concerta to adults
• Weekly stock performance
• U.S. stocks slumped last week, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to the brink of a bear market, on mounting concern that credit writedowns and record oil prices will keep eroding profit and economic growth
• Included in recent SEC filings for initial public offerings, AGA Medical Holdings Inc. registered up to $200 million worth of common stock via Citigroup Global Markets
• Weekly key rates in percent
• Scientists have discovered a gene that raises the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease by as much as 77% and provides scientists with a second genetic target for developing new treatments for the disorder
• Female colon-cancer patients who are 50 or younger have much better odds of surviving the disease than their male peers, but the opposite is true of older women with the disease, Australian researchers report
• Influenza vaccination reduces coronary ischemic events in patients with optimally treated coronary artery disease , according to a report in the June European Heart Journal
• Use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins rose by 156% between 2000 and 2005
• The number of Americans with diabetes increased by 15% in two years to 24 million, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• New cases of HIV and AIDS doubled in six years among black makes as young as 13 as many continue having sex with other males without knowing they are infected, according to a government report
• Oracle Corp , the biggest maker of database software, created a new business unit focused on applications for the health sciences industry