Astra Bids $4B for Amylin; Roche Smart-Bomb Drug Attacks Breast CA - June 4, 2012

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Monday, June 04, 2012  |   |   |   |  Introducing OncologyMAP® v2.0, Myriad RBM's powerful new service that quantitatively measures 130 cancer-related proteins. Please click here more information.   •  AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) Bids $4 Billion for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMLN) More... •  Roche (RHHBY) Smart-bomb Drug Attacks Breast CA More... •  Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) Immune Drug Shows Promise in Three Cancers, Success May Spur Industry Race More... •  Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Prostate Cancer Drug So Effective Trial Stopped More... •  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Melanoma Drugs Beat Chemo in Pivotal Trials More... •  Bayer AG (BAY.F) Drug Stalls Stomach Tumors After Standard Treatment More... •  Roche (RHHBY)'s Avastin Delays Tumor Growth in Ovarian Cancer More... •  Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation Plans to Challenge AstraZeneca PLC (AZN),Roche (RHHBY) in Lung Cancer Battle More... 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