16.05.2013
- Sweden's Recipharm has hired UBS to advise on either a partial sale of the pharmaceutical company or a listing on the Stockholm exchange, a source close to the process told Reuters...
13.05.2013
- Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...
07.05.2013
- Slower growth in the pace of U.S. healthcare spending reflects a fundamental change in the use of medical services that could save the country nearly $800 billion in the next...
28.04.2013
- A proposed merger of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and Actavis was put on hold after the two drugmakers failed to agree on terms of a deal that would have created a...
25.04.2013
- In the first quarter 2013, Lonza's business performance was solid and in line with expectations. While the Specialty Ingredients market segment showed a good performance, the...
15.04.2013
- Life Technologies has accepted a $13.6 billion cash buyout proposal from scientific and laboratory instruments company Thermo Fisher Scientific in one of the year's biggest...
13.04.2013
- Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed...
12.04.2013
- Drugmaker Eli Lilly plans to lay off about 1,000 domestic sales representatives, or 30% of its U.S. sales force, as it faces new generic competition for its top drugs, a person...
12.04.2013
- Solvay announces today that it will build a specialty surfactant plant at an industrial park in Genthin, Germany, close to Berlin. The unit will develop and produce surfactant...
11.04.2013
- The global population grows older while increasing social pressures drive individuals to look younger. Consumer awareness has risen for cosmeceutical products which offer a way to...
