12.08.2013
- China has started investigating French drugmaker Sanofi for allegedly bribing more than 500 Chinese doctors with about 1.7 million yuan ($277,600) of payments to raise sales, China...
09.08.2013
- Chinese authorities have visited a site operated by Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest maker of insulin, in the latest sign of a widening investigation into...
07.08.2013
- Times are getting tough for European firms in emerging markets where HSBC talks of a cyclical "slowdown", Diageo sees "choppy conditions" and Unilever views deceleration as the...
02.08.2013
- Chinese authorities visited a regional office of French drugmaker Sanofi this week in the latest sign of a widening investigation into Western drugmakers. Eli Lilly said it had...
25.07.2013
- Swiss drug maker Novartis suffered a fresh blow to the turnaround prospects of its loss-making vaccines division as a key committee advised against including its meningitis B...
22.07.2013
- British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday some of its executives in China appeared to have broken the law in a bribery scandal, as it promised changes in its business model...
25.06.2013
- The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) decision to release detailed data on drugs once a medicine is approved could discourage critical investment in crisis-hit Europe, Sanofi's...
18.06.2013
- ViroPharma is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter. While...
07.06.2013
- In a leafy suburb of Frankfurt, a state-of-the-art plant churns out up to 1 million insulin pens every day in French drugmaker Sanofi's drive to keep its no. 2 spot in the $43...
06.06.2013
- Inspired by its success in high-tech electronics and software, Israel is hoping to pull off the same trick in life sciences. The Mediterranean country already boasts the world's...