Bayer HealthCare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the companies have begun enrolling patients in a Phase III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets in combination with the oral chemotherapeutic agent, capecitabine, versus placebo plus capecitabine for the treatment of patients with advanced breast cancer.

H. Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck) announces 2010 results, which meet all financial expectations. Full year revenue was DKK 14,765 million and increased 7% compared to 2009, driven by a positive development in all regions.

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), announced that it is partnering with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to support the recently launched Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI).

AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the inclusion of data from two clinical studies in an update to the ONGLYZA (saxagliptin) US Prescribing Information for adult type 2 diabetes patients.

Forest Laboratories, Inc. (Forest) (NYSE: FRX) and Clinical Data, Inc. (Clinical Data) (NASDAQ: CLDA) have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Forest will acquire Clinical Data, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of first-in-class and best-in-category therapeutics,

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for Rasilamlo(TM) (aliskiren and amlodipine) to treat high blood pressure patients not adequately controlled by either aliskiren or amlodipine alone.

Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which sanofi-aventis is to acquire Genzyme for $74.00 per share in cash, or approximately $20.1 billion.