Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) ("Forest") has successfully completed its acquisition of Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA) ("Clinical Data") by means of what is known as a short-form merger under Delaware law.

Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) has finalized a previously reported agreement-in-principle to resolve all aspects of the investigations led by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts that began in January 2004 relating to past marketing, sales, and other activities in connection with Celexa(R), Lexapro(R), and a formulation of Levothroid(R) that Forest ceased distributing in 2003.

Covex S.A., leader in the manufacture of products aimed at improving cerebral functions, successfully reaches the first stage of its introduction in Latin America, as it begins to harvest medicinal plants on an industrial scale, for the onset of its new agroindustrial expansion.

Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New York based U.S. Company of Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Corporate Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) and PharmaForce, Inc., (Columbus, Ohio, USA), a privately-held fullyintegrated specialty injectable pharmaceutical company, announced today that PharmaForce has been acquired by Luitpold.

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proteolix, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapies that target the proteasome for the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

Forest Laboratories (NYSE:FRX) and AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) have entered into a definitive collaboration agreement to co-develop and commercialize ceftaroline in all markets outside the United States, Canada and Japan. Ceftaroline is Forest's late stage, next generation cephalosporin being investigated for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP).

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) has announced a license agreement between Nobilon, Schering-Plough's human vaccine business unit, and the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide access to pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing technology to developing countries.