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GLEN ALLEN, Va., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Scientific, Inc., announced that Anatabloc® Unflavored is available as an option on the shopping cart on the Anatabloc® website at https://store.anatabloc.com/products as of today. Anatabloc® Unflavored is a revised formulation containing the same active dietary ingredients in the same dose as our original Anatabloc® product. A significant number of individuals using...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) today announced the appointment of Ms. Talhia T. Tuck as the company's new Vice President for Communications and Investor Relations as of April 18, 2012. Ms. Tuck will assume the position previously held by Ms. Sara T. Machir since 2003. Ms. Tuck has a broad range of media and public relations skills as a result of her prior experiences in TV and print journalism, which started in 2001 when she was...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) issued the following comments on the March 30, 2012 FDA Draft Guidance on Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents in Tobacco Products under Section 904 of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act ("Tobacco Act") and the Summary Report of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee ("TPSAC") posted by the FDA on March 21st. (Logo:...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX), today announced that it has expanded its partnership with GNC, the global health and wellness retailer that specializes in premium, value-added nutritional products. Beginning today, customers will be able to purchase Anatabloc® nationwide at GNC retail locations which includes Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Anatabloc® has been...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) today filed its annual financial report on Form 10-K with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). The company reported that net sales for 2011 totaled $1.73 million, a 100% increase over 2010 net sales of $.848 million. Fourth-quarter 2011 net sales totaled $0.91 million compared with $0.15 million in fourth-quarter 2011. Net sales of the company's dietary supplements constituted 71.8% of...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) announced that the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice of Allowance on February 16, 2012 in Application No. 12/342,192 by Jonnie Williams, entitled "Tobacco Curing Method", formally granting patent claims for a new method of curing tobacco. The written patent will issue from the USPTO within the next several months. The '192 application discloses the minimizing of TSNA...
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GLEN ALLEN, Va., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) - A study released in the January 9th issue of the Journal of Neurology suggests that nicotine patches may help individuals with early memory loss. Dr. Paul Newhouse, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, led a study which showed that six months of nicotine patch treatment among patients who had mild cognitive impairment - often a precursor to Alzheimer's disease - had...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) has announced that the company is pleased to report that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today denied RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company's (RJR) petition for a rehearing of Star's appeal of its patent infringement lawsuit against RJR. On August 26, the Federal Circuit Court issued a ruling on Star's appeal of the June, 2009 jury verdict in that lawsuit. The Court in its August...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc., (NASDAQ: CIGX) reported that it filed the company's financial report on the third quarter today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company reported net sales for the third quarter of $0.4 million compared with $0.2 million for the same period in 2010. Sales of CigRx® and Anatabloc(TM), the dietary supplements manufactured by the company's Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals subsidiary, accounted for $0.3 million...
