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Sanofi Steps up Diabetes Drive as Rivals Raise the Stakes

07.06.2013 - In a leafy suburb of Frankfurt, a state-of-the-art plant churns out up to 1 million insulin pens every day in French drugmaker Sanofi's drive to keep its no. 2 spot in the $43...

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FDA Panel Votes to Relax Avandia Restrictions

07.06.2013 - U.S. health advisers voted on Thursday to recommend relaxing market restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia, the former blockbuster at the center of one of the...

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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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Sanofi to Step Up Development of New Diabetes Device

02.05.2013 - Sanofi is stepping up the development of a fixed combination of diabetes treatments Lantus and Lyxumia to sidestep an earlier setback with a similar pen device and take advantage...

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U.S. Launch of Novo's New Insulin Faces Long Delay

01.05.2013 - Denmark's Novo Nordisk could see the U.S. launch of its biggest drug hope, a new long-acting insulin, delayed until 2018 while it conducts more tests to satisfy regulators, it said...

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Novo Hikes Forecasts on Hopes for New Blockbuster Drug

31.01.2013 - The world's biggest insulin producer Novo Nordisk raised sales and profit forecasts for 2013 on hopes its new Tresiba drug will soon win approval in the United States and add...

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Roche Open to Gene-Sequencing Acquisition

19.12.2012 - Swiss drugmaker Roche would still consider buying a gene-sequencing company to fit its strategy of tailoring treatments to specific patients, after dropping a $6.8 billion bid for...

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Bayer Diabetes Unit Sale Unlikely

07.12.2012 - Bayer is unlikely to sell its blood glucose meters business for the time being, after failing to generate sufficient interest from buyers, two people familiar with the situation...