Best of the Blog: IN VIVO, May/June 2009

Our favorite blog posts related to stories not covered elsewhere in this month's IN VIVO.

"Best of the Blog" is a monthly column highlighting the best of our free online content at www.windhover.com/blog. In May and June, Windhover’s editorial staff posted nearly 100 articles to the site, covering biopharma R&D, business development, regulatory and commercial news. Highlights included our blogging on location at the BIO meeting in Atlanta and our ongoing coverage of health care reform issues like comparative effectiveness research (not to mention the ongoing web-dominance of Deals of the Week!). Here are a few of our favorite blog posts and excerpts for stories not covered elsewhere in this month’s IN VIVO.

(May 11.) The recently and some-say miraculously approved iloperidone (Fanapt) from Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. is certainly a rare bird. (See "WTF? Regulatory Victory for Vanda’s Iloperidone After FDA U-Turn,"...

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