Five months later the building is full and Brownback gives the Ironwood project all the credit.

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Ironwood has achieved enviable results since Hecht, 45, cofounded the company a decade ago.

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Ironwood is competing with at least two other IBS treatments now in testing from small drug companies.

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In a small town outside of Guadalajara, he found an artist to hand-carve murals into doors made of ironwood.

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Ironwood is also developing candidates to treat pain, inflammatory bowel disease and dyslipidemia, a type of elevated cholesterol in diabetic patients.

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Inland, tall ironwood trees announce Kapalua, 23, 000 acres of Maui's most well-thought-out resort development, which includes a recently renovated Ritz-Carlton hotel.

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Two years later, Ironwood state prison installed an identical solar photovoltaic system.

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Ironwood Restaurant will open in October, on the busiest corner of the bustling village of just under 5, 000 just outside Syracuse, NY.

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The new drug, from Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and to be marketed in the US by Forest Laboratories, is a capsule to be take once daily on an empty stomach.

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