OSI Pharmaceuticals

OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Melville and its partners in an anti-lung cancer drug said Friday that results of a new study they conducted showed the medication, Tarceva, helped slow the progress of the disease when given immediately after chemotherapy....

GLOBECOMM SYSTEMS (GCOM) Hauppauge LAST: $5.90 52-WEEK RETURN: -51.9% Shares had their worst week since September 2002, driving the stock to a three-year low. The provider of satellite-based communications systems posted flat sales and lower...

OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Melville and Genentech Inc., its partner in an anti-cancer drug, said Monday a combination of Genentech's Avastin and OSI's Tarceva failed in a study to prolong the lives of patients with the most common form of lung cancer....

Nassau Assessor Harvey Levinson, a Democrat, has publicly railed against Republican-controlled Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency projects, complaining that wealthy businessmen and successful companies are getting unnecessary tax breaks...

Buoyed by sales of the anti-cancer drug Tarceva, OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its sales and profits were up for the second quarter of 2007. The company, based in Melville, said after the close of trading Wednesday that sales were $95.7 million for the...

With the price of oil persisting near all-time highs, the search for energy sources is an issue in the presidential campaign. While most recent headlines have centered on the candidates' positions on expanding offshore drilling for oil, there's another...

SUFFOLK PROPOSAL Four-day New Year’s holiday? Call it the "four-day weekend" rule. Suffolk Legis. Dan Los- quadro has proposed putting off the legislature's annual organization meeting whenever New Year's Day falls on a Thursday - as it will in 2009....

OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., the Melville-based company best known for its work developing an anti-cancer drug, said Thursday it plans to study ways to treat obesity, a growing health problem worldwide and particularly among school-age children in the U.S....

Executives receiving multimillion-dollar pay packages have more company this year. At least 54 executives among Long Island's largest 100 public companies had compensation packages surpassing $2 million last year, up 15 percent from 47 executives in that...

State of the State Governor George Pataki January 5, 2005 Chief Judge Kaye, honorable members of the Court of Appeals, Lieutenant Governor Donohue, Attorney General Spitzer, Comptroller Hevesi, Majority Leader Bruno, Speaker Silver, Leader Nesbitt,...

After slumping through three days of bad news this week, the stock market rallied Thursday with the Dow closing up almost 200 points. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 186.06 to 9261.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 23.76...

Four compact discs adorn a new plaque on the wall at OSI Pharmaceuticals' Melville headquarters. The unusual display highlights the most anticipated moment of the young biotechnology company's history, since those discs contain copies of the company's...