12.04.2012
- Bayer MaterialScience will acquire Arkema's polycarbonate sheet business in the USA. Both companies have signed the agreement. Financial terms are not disclosed. The acquisition...
12.04.2012
- Swiss drugmaker Roche dangled the prospect of a higher offer before reluctant U.S. bid target Illumina on Thursday along with broadly flat first-quarter sales supported by its top...
12.04.2012
- Lonza and Agennix announced an agreement for the production of Agennix's first-in-class oral Dendritic Cell Mediated Immunotherapy (DCMI), talactoferrin, currently in Phase III...
12.04.2012
- Watson Pharmaceuticals is on track to announce a deal to buy Actavis for around $6 billion by the end of April, creating one of the world's biggest producers of generic drugs...
11.04.2012
- A leak at Total's North Sea Elgin gas platform could be stopped by the end of April, if everything goes as planned, U.K. managing director Philippe Guys said in a newspaper...
11.04.2012
- U.S. health regulators are adding information to the labels on a popular class of birth control pills that includes Bayer's Yaz and Yasmin, to show they may raise the risk of blood...
11.04.2012
- Fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan is managing to push through price increases to offset higher raw material costs, the Swiss group said as it posted a 4.7% rise in first-quarter...
10.04.2012
- Amgen said it will buy privately held KAI Pharmaceuticals for $315 million to gain access to an experimental treatment for a common complication suffered by chronic kidney disease...
10.04.2012
- Cardinal Health has named a former longtime Johnson & Johnson executive as the new head for its $9 billion medical products and services business, the U.S. pharmaceutical...
10.04.2012
- Azeri state energy company Socar said it planned to start construction of a new oil refinery, gas liquefaction plant and a chemical plant in the first quarter of 2013 in a project...
