10.05.2012
- GlaxoSmithKline will take its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome Sciences direct to shareholders this week, after its takeover offer was rejected last month by the...
28.04.2012
- French drugmaker Sanofi posted better-than-expected quarterly results, bolstered by strong emerging markets, breaking with a trend of earnings misses by European rivals AstraZeneca...
25.04.2012
- U.S. biotech company Amgen is to buy Turkey's Mustafa Nevzat Pharmaceuticals, a maker of injectable generic drugs, for around $700 million in a deal underscoring Western drugmakers...
20.04.2012
- European regulators have endorsed the continued use of Novartis's multiple sclerosis pill Gilenya, one of the Swiss firm's top new drug hopes, but said on Friday the drug needed to...
02.04.2012
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has launched U.S. sales of irbesartan and irbesartan-hydrochlorothiazide tablets, generic versions of Sanofi Aventis' high blood pressure treatments...
30.03.2012
- France's drugs market is set to shrink in 2012 for the first time, hit by government austerity measures to curb healthcare spending, according to a study published by...
22.03.2012
- French drugmaker Sanofi said it plans to close a plant in northern England as it contends with European health spending cuts and growing competition from generic drugs. The Fawdon...
15.03.2012
- The Swiss Chemical Society has awarded the "Sandmeyer Award 2012 - sponsored by KPMG" to a research team from Solvias. Working for Sanofi Pasteur, the team developed an innovative...
15.03.2012
- The Swiss Chemical Society has awarded the Sandmeyer Award 2012 to a research team from Solvias. Working for Sanofi Pasteur, the team developed an innovative, efficient and fully...
12.03.2012
- Bayer is sounding out its debt financing options with banks to prepare for takeover opportunities such as one that may arise from Pfizer's mooted exit from veterinary medicine...