Senator Robert C. Byrd, a son of West Virginia coal country who used his mastery of Senate rules and a taste for hardball tactics to become a passionate and often feared advocate for the state and the Senate he loved, died Monday at age 92.

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced that it has prepaid the remaining $63.5 million principal amount of its 15% senior secured notes. The prepayment was made using a combination of borrowings under a new term loan and revolving credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank that closed on June 30, 2010 and cash on hand. The $50 ...

In an opinion handed down Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit determined that a portion of a discrimination case filed against Ballard Spahr Andrews Ingersoll will be allowed to move forward. The trial court had previously granted Ballard Spahr's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by a former employee. The case stems from the 2004 firing of Vanessa McFadden, who had worked in the firm's ...

As Mays many showers now give way to flowers, graduations and the great outdoors, an enemy is lurking in Minnesotas woods and tall grasses. Deer ticks, now referred to by naturalists as the Black-legged tick, are no stranger to campers and cabin-goers alike.

FDA's meeting on the adoption of REMS for certain prescription opioids doesn't begin until July 22, but the agency's proposal released Tuesday portends a meeting fraught with conflict over the balance between curbing abuse and protecting patient access.