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AstraZeneca Closes in on Site for New Home in Cambridge

20.05.2013 - AstraZeneca is closing in on a site for its new $500 million home in Cambridge, with a biomedical park just south of the English city the most likely site, property industry...

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Drugmakers Face More Scrutiny of Discordant U.S. Prices

11.05.2013 - The world's biggest drug makers have for years enjoyed rich premiums for their medicines in the U.S. market. Those days may be coming to an end. Companies like Pfizer and...

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Eli Lilly Broadens Diabetes Offer

03.05.2013 - Eli Lilly, the world's fourth-largest diabetes drugs maker, aims to have the widest range of anti diabetic drugs in order to win a larger slice in the growing market. The global...

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Big Drugmakers Think Small with Nanomedicine Deals

03.05.2013 - Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. The ability to encapsulate potent drugs in tiny particles measuring billionths of a...

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AstraZeneca Q1 Sales Tumble as Generic Losses Bite Deep

25.04.2013 - AstraZeneca's sales fell by a bigger-than-expected 13% in the first quarter as patent expiries took a heavy toll, underscoring the turnaround challenge facing Britain's second...

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AstraZeneca Bets on Nanotech with Bind Therapeutics Deal

22.04.2013 - AstraZeneca is to pay privately held Bind Therapeutics as much as $200 million to develop a cancer medicine using the U.S. biotech company's nanotechnology drug delivery system...

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Optimer Shares Rise After Report Names Glaxo, Cubist as Potential Buyers

03.04.2013 - Shares of Optimer Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 24% after a Bloomberg report said GlaxoSmithKline and Cubist Pharmaceuticals were among those interested in buying the antibiotic...

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AstraZeneca Buys Early-stage U.S. Biotech Firm

03.04.2013 - AstraZeneca boosted its early-stage pipeline of experimental heart drugs on Wednesday by buying privately held U.S. biotechnology company AlphaCore Pharma, which is developing a...