Progenics Pharmaceuticals And Salix Pharmaceuticals Announce Worldwide License Agreement For RELISTOR®

About Salix

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, develops and markets prescription pharmaceutical products for the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Salix’s strategy is to in-license late-stage or marketed proprietary therapeutic drugs, complete any required development and regulatory submission of these products, and market them through the Company’s gastroenterology specialty sales and marketing team.

Salix trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “SLXP”.

For more information, please visit the Salix Website at www.salix.com or contact Salix at 919-862-1000. Follow Salix on Twitter (@SalixPharma) and Facebook ( www.facebook.com/SalixPharma). Information on the Salix web site, Twitter and Facebook is not incorporated in the Company’s SEC filings.

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