06.01.2017
- Pharmaceutical companies paid twice as much for acquisitions in 2016 than a year earlier, according to an analysis of the 316 drugs-sector deals of the past three years carried out...
05.01.2017
- The US state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration in the federal district court of Galveston, seeking to force the regulatory agency to agree to...
02.12.2016
- By a vote of 392 to 26, the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century Cures Act, a nearly 1,000-page piece of legislation aimed at accelerating federal...
29.07.2016
- A US legislator who authored a law that keeps most of the state of Arkansas' lethal injection policy a secret has challenged the right of pharmaceutical producers to object to...
04.04.2016
- Alliances between big pharma and scientists, hospitals and biotech firms are common practice in the health-care business. About half of today’s top-selling drugs are the result of...
04.04.2016
- Analysts love looking into the future, particularly when it comes to big pharma’s prospect for growth and earnings. The industry experts of Morningstar see slowing patent losses...
04.01.2016
- Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund of billionaire US activist investor Bill Ackman, has trimmed its stake in Canada-headquartered Valeant Pharmaceuticals from...
06.08.2015
- European regulatory authorities have approved the $15.2 billion takeover of injectable drug and infusion device maker Hospira by US drugmaker Pfizer, subject to certain conditions...
