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Merger Consideration Established at $14.82 Per Share (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080703/20080703005702.html?.v=1</link><description>EXETER, N.H.----Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the aggregate cash purchase price for its acquisition by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has been adjusted in accordance with the merger agreement after completion of the previously announced taxable spin-off of its drug delivery business, CPEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. .</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2019466147</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:30:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Software Firm Focuses On Not-So-Blind Dates (Investor&apos;s Business Daily)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080703/health.html?.v=1</link><description>Think of Ideapoint 19 an online matchmaker bringing biotech inventors and biopharma companies together. 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The Food and Drug Administration approved the stent late Wednesday, and Abbott expects it to take between 25 percent and 30 percent of the U.S. drug-coated stent market over the next 12 months.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2164710574</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:37:31 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Studies of Adolor-GlaxoSmithKline&apos;s Entereg can resume (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12ih3606h/*http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2008/06/30/daily38.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1148629734</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:35:11 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opening Glance: Pharmaceutical stocks higher (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080703/pharmaceuticals_opening_glance.html?.v=1</link><description>Shares of pharmaceutical companies were mostly higher early Thursday as the broader market wobbled following a Labor Department report showing the nation&apos;s unemployment rate held steady.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/14744255</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:00:37 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080703/watermelon_viagra_effect.html?.v=1</link><description>A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra -- but don&apos;t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2141456846</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:35:50 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Community Health-In-Partnerships Services receives AMA Foundation grant (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=128lle7a9/*http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2008/06/30/daily60.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2425530643</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:35:09 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[$$] Shares Slide as Oil Prices Reach New All-Time High (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/wsj/rss/SIG=11pi56f7i/*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121507201490726075.html?mod=yahoo_hs&amp;ru=yahoo</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1854180525</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:44:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss><!-- c7.finance.sp1.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Thu Jul  3 23:51:06 PDT 2008 -->
