15.05.2012
- AstraZeneca misled patent regulators more than a decade ago in a bid to block competition to its ulcer drug Losec, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Tuesday, backing a €52.5...
26.04.2012
- AstraZeneca Chief Executive David Brennan is to step down on June 1 in an abrupt exit after six years in the top job, following rising investor discontent at the company's...
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...
23.04.2012
- AstraZeneca has agreed to buy U.S. company Ardea Biosciences for $1.26 billion, giving it a new gout drug to bolster its weak pipeline in a deal that feeds a wave of M&A in the...
03.04.2012
- Amgen and British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Monday a major collaboration deal to jointly develop and sell five biotech drugs currently in Amgen's developmental pipeline...
30.03.2012
- A U.S. court on Thursday ruled that the formulation patent for AstraZeneca's big-selling anti-psychotic drug Seroquel XR was valid and had been infringed by Mylan and other...
28.03.2012
- Shares of Amylin Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 51% on Wednesday after Bloomberg News reported the company rejected a $3.5 billion unsolicited takeover bid from Bristol-Myers...
22.03.2012
- AstraZeneca has thrown in the towel on an experimental antidepressant targeting nicotine receptors after the drug licensed from Targacept failed in two remaining clinical trials...