Derica Rice has been appointed the executive vice president of Eli Lilly with expanded responsibilities in the companys global services sector.

Patrick Sips, PhD, a research fellow in the department of anesthesiology and critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, was awarded the third annual American Heart Association-Philips Healthcare Resuscitation Fellowship Award.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has recently reinforced his crusade to inquire into potential conflicts of interest between industry and physicians. Concurrently, the state of New Jersey has issued recommendations, placing the burden of disclosure of industry payments on physicians.

Array BioPharma and Amgen have entered into an agreement granting Amgen exclusive worldwide rights to Array's small-molecule glucokinase activator program, including ARRY-403, currently being tested in a Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with type 2 diabetes.

A clinical trial investigating the use of Gilead Sciences' endothelin receptor antagonist darusentan as therapy for resistant hypertension found that the treatment missed its co-primary efficacy endpoints of change from baseline to week 14 in trough sitting systolic blood pressure (BP) and diastolic BP when compared to a placebo.

Pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb has selected Charles Bancroft as its acting chief financial officer (CFO), as its current executive vice president and CFO, Jean-Marc Huet, prepares to leave his post at the end of this year.

The science of resuscitation has advanced considerably in the past few decades. Yet, cardiac arrest survival at home or work has remained unchanged in that time. Not many homes are equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs), but many workplaces are. These devices are capable of directing bystanders to not only adequately shock patients, but also to perform life-saving CPR.

The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than when bystanders performed standard CPR. These are the latest findings reported by the Resuscitation Research Group at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and the SHARE Program (Save Hearts in Arizona Research and Education) at the Arizona Department of Health Services.