Wall Street Journal – The new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is among the wealthiest Obama administration appointees, with income of at least $10 million in 2008 thanks mostly to her husband, a hedge-fund executive, according to financial disclosure forms.

Margaret Hamburg and her husband, Peter Fitzhugh Brown, must divest themselves of several hedge-fund holdings as well as some of Mr. Brown’s inherited drug-company stocks so Dr. Hamburg can take the post as the nation’s top food and drug regulator. Mr. Brown is a lieutenant to hedge-fund magnate James Simons.

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Boston Business Journal – Just days after winning regulatory approval for the manufacture and marketing of its cancer therapy for bladder cancer, Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. disclosed that a North Carolina hedge fund has acquired 8.5 percent of its common stock.

Lexington, Mass.-based Indevus made the announcements via regulatory filings late Friday and early Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On Friday, the company said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved its supplemental new drug application for Valstar, a therapy that aims to treat bladder cancer through an injectable technology.

Valstar was first approved by the FDA in 2002, however design as well as manufacturing issues have prevented Indevus from marketing the drug in the United States since 2002.

Indevus said it intends to market Valstar during the second half of this year.

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