07.05.2013
- A new generation of drug industry chief executives is stepping up plans to restructure their businesses by divesting slower-growing and maturing operations, opening up new...
12.02.2013
- For pharmaceutical companies, Africa is changing. Not only is the continent's economic growth grabbing attention in boardrooms but the shifting nature of its disease burden is...
20.11.2012
- In A Clinch - Big Pharma today encounters a variety of pressures from generics manufacturers, governments, patient advocacy groups, investors, physicians and even other...
03.11.2012
- India dealt a fresh blow to the international pharmaceutical industry on Friday as its patents appeal board revoked a patent granted six years ago on Roche's hepatitis C drug...
25.09.2012
- A Pill a Day - Unlike chemicals, the pharmaceuticals sector does not have cycles. Even in a sluggish economy, sick people will still need medicine. But the widening European debt...
25.09.2012
- Life-sciences and health investing, long shunned by venture-capital investors, is making a comeback. Several venture firms globally have each raised or are raising funds this year...
20.08.2012
- India's highest court will hear final arguments starting this week in a landmark case over drug patents that could change the rules for the country's healthcare sector and...
21.07.2012
- Aggressive consolidation among U.S. and European generic drugmakers is putting pressure on smaller competitors in the industry, whose best hope of surviving a brewing price war may...
