Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SLXP) believes that there’s enough solid data available now to warrant U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its new irritable bowel syndrome drug and at a meeting with the agency next month, the company will ask regulators to approve it.If the FDA wants more work done on the drug, Salix CEO Carolyn [...]

Salix Pharmaceuticals is extending an agreement with an Indian pharmaceutical partner to give Salix exclusive global rights, except for India, to a key drug-delivery technology.Morrisville, North Carolina-based Salix (NASDAQ:SLXP) in 2009 licensed the drug delivery technology from Mumbai, India-based Lupin Pharmaceuticals. Salix uses that technology in its gastrointestinal drug rifaximin, marketed as Xifaxan. Salix announced [...]

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration has signaled it will not approve an irritable bowel syndrome treatment being developed by Morrisville, North Carolina-based Salix Pharmaceuticals. Salix says it won’t know more details until it formally receives a complete response letter from the FDA.

NinePoint Medical Inc. signs a licensing deal with Mass. General Hospital for 188 of the institution’s patents and patent applications.NinePoint Medical Inc. entered into a licensing deal with Mass. General Hospital for 188 patents and patent applications owned by the institution.The Cambridge, Mass.-based company plans to incorporate the intellectual property into its high-resolution optical imaging [...]

The life of a general surgeon is one fraught with contingency, soul-crushing doubt, unexpected disaster, and overwhelming stress. We wade into shark infested waters every time we press scalpel into flesh. Your eyes better be wide open and your head on a swivel. There’s no such thing as routine in general surgery

Torax Medical Inc. has received regulatory approval from the European Union to sell an implantable device that treats patients suffering from acid reflux disease.The company’s Linx device is intended for patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, which involves stomach juices flowing upward into the esophagus. The disease is caused by defects to the esophageal sphincter muscle, [...]

MAX Endoscopy Inc. in Macedonia, Ohio, has received a $250,000 investment commitment from JumpStart Inc., the venture development organization in Cleveland. MAX Endoscopy will use the money to formalize sales and marketing efforts for its fiber-optic technology that is used with endoscopes to treat hemorrhoids.

The Buckeye Surgeon writes about an exam in which he felt an “obvious large, soft, mobile mass in the left lower quadrant.” Four others had seen it. He gets a CT. What is the problem?