03.03.2015
- The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the hormonal intrauterine contraceptive (IUD) Lileta, which releases the hormone levonorgestrel to inhibit thickening of the womb...
03.03.2015
- Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has concluded the takeover of Thermoplast Composite GmbH (TCG) in Langenfeld, near Nuremberg, which specializes in production of lightweight continuous...
02.03.2015
- Germany's BASF and Toda Kogyo of Japan have finalized their joint venture agreement on production of cathode active materials (CAM) for lithium-ion batteries in Japan. The deal was...
02.03.2015
- Bachem announced today the forthcoming acquisition of American Peptide Company (APC), based in California. The Japanese seller ILS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Otsuka Chemical...
02.03.2015
- Completion of the sale of the DEA unit of German oil and gas giant RWE to LetterOne, an investor group led by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman appears to be imminent. News reports...
02.03.2015
- Bayer managing board member Werner Bauman, recently named to head the HealthCare sub-group, has vowed to fight for the independence of Germany's largest drugmaker after the carve...
27.02.2015
- The US House of Representatives, now with a Republican party majority, is seeking to make good on its pledge to declaw the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Earlier this week...
27.02.2015
- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted Novartis permission to acquire the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) oncology portfolio - with some strings attached. Canada's competition...
27.02.2015
- The Bayer group is on track to become a pure life sciences group by mid-2016, by which time it intends to have carved out its plastics sub-group, CEO Marijn Dekkers said at the...
27.02.2015
- The Supreme Court of the US state of South Carolina has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a penalty of $136 million, upholding a jury's finding that the drugmaker's Janssen unit had...
