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AstraZeneca Buys Equal Say over Amylin Drugs

10.08.2012 - AstraZeneca has opted to pay a further $135 million to Bristol-Myers Squibb to get an equal say in decision-making regarding drugs developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, the diabetes...

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EU Crisis Piles on Pain for Europe's Drugmakers

26.07.2012 - Europe's sick economy is infecting its pharmaceuticals sector, traditionally one of the region's most successful industries. Price cuts to rein in healthcare spending reached...

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The Long Way Back

19.07.2012 - Business in Great Britain - Since 2008, the UK chemical industry has gone through one of the biggest downturns in production of all the world's leading producers of chemicals. Now...

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AstraZeneca Tries New Tack in Brain Research

12.07.2012 - AstraZeneca has clinched two new deals in neuroscience, underlining the drugmaker's increasing reliance on external projects to refill a sparse pipeline as it tests a new low-cost...

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AstraZeneca Hungry to Refill Medicine Cabinet

30.06.2012 - Simon Lowth may only be the interim chief executive of AstraZeneca but he is ready to sign off on bold deals. The decision to pair up with Bristol-Myers Squibb to buy diabetes...

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Roche Revamps Research Ops, Cuts 1,000 U.S. Jobs

27.06.2012 - Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Tuesday it was overhauling its research operations by closing the 80-year-old New Jersey facility where Valium was discovered, cutting 1,000 jobs and...

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Bristol, AstraZeneca among Amylin Bidders

02.06.2012 - AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb are among several pharmaceutical giants that have submitted initial bids for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, the diabetes drugmaker that is exploring a...

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AstraZeneca Braced for Change under New Chairman

01.06.2012 - AstraZeneca's new chairman took the helm on Friday and said the troubled drugmaker faced "a period of significant change". Leif Johansson's first priority is to find a permanent...