NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., July 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie today announced its first Week of Possibilities, an employee volunteer program to support educational improvement projects in local communities where AbbVie is based. As part of the inaugural program, more than 1,300 AbbVie employees are donating time to help improve six elementary and middle schools in North Chicago, Ill., and Worcester, Mass. During the week of July 14-18, Week of Possibilities volunteers will transform library and learning centers, refresh classrooms and teachers' lounges, and transform an elementary school into a facility for at-risk young adults in North Chicago, where AbbVie is headquartered, and in Worcester, where its biologics research and development (R&D) center is located.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the initiation of a Phase III clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of its investigational compound, veliparib (ABT-888), when added to carboplatin and paclitaxel, two chemotherapeutic medicines, in patients with advanced breast cancer. Specifically, the combination of veliparib, carboplatin and paclitaxel will be compared to treatment with carboplatin, paclitaxel and placebo in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-(HER2) negative metastatic or locally-advanced breast cancer, containing BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 gene mutations.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 23, 2014 – AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today raised the midpoint of  its full-year 2014 earnings-per-share guidance by six cents and now expects a full-year diluted earnings-per-share range of $3.06 to $3.16 on an adjusted basis, or $2.69 to $2.79 on a GAAP basis. AbbVie's 2014 outlook continues to exclude any potential revenue from the expected 2014 U.S. launch of its hepatitis C (HCV) therapy which has been granted accelerated review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.42 per share. 

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced today that the Marketing Authorization Applications (MAAs) for its investigational, all-oral, interferon-free regimen for the treatment of adult patients with chronic genotype 1 (GT1) hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been validated and are under accelerated assessment by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. – June 16, 2014 – Today Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) announced positive top-line results from the Phase 3 DECIDE clinical trial, designed to evaluate the superiority of once-monthly, subcutaneous daclizumab high-yield process (DAC HYP) when compared to intramuscular  interferon beta-1a (IFN β-1a), as a potential treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), the most common form of multiple sclerosis (MS). Results showed that DAC HYP was superior on the study’s primary endpoint, demonstrating a statistically significant 45 percent reduction in annualized relapse rate (ARR) compared to IFN β-1a (p<0.0001). 

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced today that the New Drug Application (NDA) for its investigational, all-oral, interferon-free regimen for the treatment of adult patients with chronic genotype 1 (GT1) hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has been granted priority review.