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Daschle Withdraws Name for HHS Secretary

By Anne E. Kornblut, Michael D. Shear and Ed O’Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writers

Tuesday, February 3, 2009; 1:51 PM
Thomas A. Daschle, President Obama’s choice to be secretary of health and human services, has withdrawn his nomination, White House officials announced shortly after noon. [Video and Text]

Merck Serono’s Safinamide Significantly Improved Motor Function in Patients With Advanced Parkinson’s Disease in a Phase III Pivotal Trial

PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:00 PM PST

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and its partner Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA announced today that the first Phase III trial of investigational agent safinamide as adjunctive therapy to levodopa met its primary endpoint by increasing daily “ON” time in mid- to late-stage Parkinson’s disease patients with motor fluctuations by 1.3 hours.