30.07.2013
- Pfizer, in what could be the prelude to spinning off its generics drug business, said it plans to separate its commercial operations into two units, mainly for patent-protected...
30.07.2013
- Expectations that Bayer will embrace a trend in the pharma sector to split off non-core units may be too far ahead of the curve. The diversified German healthcare group has an...
29.07.2013
- Technology - After announcing the framework of a new R&D strategy in the spring of last year, BASF is beginning to reveal in detail just how it is affecting its research operations...
29.07.2013
- China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12% of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40%, a disparity that goes to the heart of...
29.07.2013
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis won an important endorsement of its new inhaled medicine for chronic lung disease on Friday when European regulators recommended approval of Ultibro...
29.07.2013
- German manufacturing, the backbone of Europe's largest economy, will slowly regain momentum after a weak start to the year but its recovery is unlikely to be strong enough to help...
29.07.2013
- RusPetro, the only Russian company focused on hard-to-extract "tight oil", said it would get significant tax relief for almost all of its current crude production under a law...
29.07.2013
- U.S. lawmakers are concerned a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods could affect the safety and availability of heparin, a blood...
29.07.2013
- German specialty chemicals group Altana said on Sunday it had agreed to buy the global rheology business of U.S. chemicals maker Rockwood Holdings for $635 million to expand its...
29.07.2013
- A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling against Exxon Mobil Corp ordering the company to pay $105 million in damages for polluting New York City's groundwater with a toxic...
