Article: VETERANS WITH PTSD AND SUICIDE-INDUCING DRUG:BOB FILNER

Article: VFW Calls for Action Over Chantix
VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine;  September 1, 2008 ;     383 words ......more effective when combined. VA gave Chantix to a test group of 241 of...including 22 "psychiatric events." VA also prescribed Chantix to 32,000 other veterans...effects. VFW said that the Chantix issue, along with VA's other recent well-documented...

Article: VA chief sees room to improve warnings; Says Chantix letter should have detailed suicide risk.(PAGE ONE)(NEWSMAKERS INTERVIEW)
The Washington Times;  June 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ......new problems with Chantix, lawmakers in both...sharply criticized the VA and promised investigative...has called for the VA to end the anti-smoking...experiment in which Chantix was given to 143...demanding to know why the VA's belated letter to Chantix users in February...

Article: VA testing drugs on war veterans; Experiments raise ethical questions.(PAGE ONE)(EXCLUSIVE: DISPOSABLE HEROES)
The Washington Times;  June 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Mr. Elliott began taking Chantix in November, the VA learned from the Food and...ethical sense, he said. The VA continues to test Chantix on veterans, even as reported...notifying its patients about the Chantix problems, the VA said bureaucracy slowed down...

Article: Rattled by Bailing Dot.Coms, VA Linux Pre-announces.(Company Financial Information)
Client Server News;  November 13, 2000 ;     622 words ...VA Linux Systems early Monday morning pre-announced, setting off...what may ultimately prove to be the height of the Linux craze. VA says it is currently suffering from the dot.com fiasco. The dot.coms aren't spending the way VA was depending on, having cast its lot in with them. As a result...

Article: Principi prodded VA on Chantix; Ex-secretary asked if use would continue.(PAGE ONE)(EXCLUSIVE)
The Washington Times;  July 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......smoking-cessation drug Chantix would remain on the VA's list of approved...inquiries from Pfizer about Chantix's status on the VA's list of prescribed...about the existence of Chantix or its status in the...when he signed the VA order. They added that...

Article: Is VA Next?(VA Linux Systems)(Company Operations)
Client Server News;  February 19, 2001 ;     454 words ...VA Linux Systems canned its VP of engineering Greg Zehr last Friday...as Turbolinux, SuSE US and Linuxcare have laid off people. VA is also believed to be moving people around in search of the...focus its energies on core solutions attractive to customers. VA is supposed to post its second-quarter results ...

Article: VA Linux Quits Hardware Biz.
Linux Gram;  July 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Struggling VA Linux Systems, which has been on the ropes...was 25% of its worldwide staff in February. VA founder and CEO Larry Augustin said the company...end of its third fiscal quarter on April 28, VA still had $100 million left in the bank from...

Article: Registration of `VA 355' Tobacco.
Crop Science;  January 1, 1999 ;     577 words ...`VA 355' fire-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) (Reg. no. CV-115, PI 604198...parasitica Dastur var. nicotianae (Breda de Haan) Tucker]. It has the pedigree `VA 309' (PI 557004)/`VA 312' (PI 551323)//`DF 300' (PI 552626) (1,2,3). From the initial 1989...

Article: Review finds VA shirked primary duty to veterans; Handling of drug trials an 'unacceptable' failure.(PAGE ONE)
The Washington Times;  September 20, 2008 ;     619 words ......varenicline, commercially known as Chantix, may induce suicidal thoughts...involves more than 900 veterans. VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele told...experiment will continue, and that Chantix, prescribed to 240 veterans...investigation reported that the VA had taken at least three months...to alert the ...

Article: VA Limps In with Gaunt Revenues.(VA Linux Systems)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Client Server News;  May 28, 2001 ;     669 words ...VA Linux Systems, whose dot.com business model evaporated in the midst of a massive slowdown...quarter ended April 28. Luckily, the figure came in at the high end of the dire results VA predicted right before the quarter closed. The number is $14 million off VA's performance a year ago. Sequentially it ...

Article: PFIZER'S CHANTIX(TM) (varenicline) NOW AVAILABLE TO HELP SMOKERS QUIT.
PR Newswire;  August 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ...CHANTIX IS A NEW PRESCRIPTION AID TO SMOKING CESSATION TREATMENT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Video, hard copy...ADULT SMOKERS IN THE UNITED STATES. A NEW PRESCRIPTION AID TO SMOKING CESSATION TREATMENT CALLED CHANTIX IS NOW AVAILABLE IN U.S. PHARMACIES. CHANTIX WAS DEVELOPED BY PFIZER AND IT IS THE FIRST NEW ...

Article: Registration of `VA 98R' Peanut.
Crop Science;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...`VA 98R' Reg. no. CV-66, PI 607566) is a large-seeded...color. It has been tested experimentally as VA 910954 in Breeder Tests, Early Maturity Tests...Program, and the Uniform Peanut Performance Tests. VA 98R was jointly released in 1998 by the Virginia...

Article: Registration of 'VA 119' tobacco.(REGISTRATIONS OF CULTIVARS)
Crop Science;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...'VA 119' flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L...371 Gold' (PI 552524) (Johnson et al., 2002)/'VA 116' (PI 543922) (Wilkinson et al., 1991). The...six plants in a single [F.sub.7] progeny row. VA 119 was evaluated as VPI 119 in the Regional...

Article: New drug may help smokers kick habit ; Doctors report Chantix success
The Gazette;  February 27, 2007 ;     666 words ...Chantix, a new prescription drug, is proving to be a powerful weapon in the antismoking arsenal...to develop the drug. Coe was in Colorado Springs recently to educate doctors about Chantix, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year. Chantix received an accelerated priority FDA review ...