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Drug Makers Fear Short-Term Turmoil As China Probes Widen

02.08.2013 - Chinese authorities visited a regional office of French drugmaker Sanofi this week in the latest sign of a widening investigation into Western drugmakers. Eli Lilly said it had...

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AstraZeneca Warns Of Higher Costs As Drug Sales Slide

02.08.2013 - British drugmaker AstraZeneca warned on Thursday of higher costs in 2013 as it invests through a slump in sales caused by a wave of patent expiries on key medicines. The prediction...

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Why China Pays Over The Odds For Its Medicines

29.07.2013 - China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12% of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40%, a disparity that goes to the heart of...

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Foreign Pharma Companies Could Be Probed In China

25.07.2013 - China's official news agency hinted that more foreign pharmaceutical firms could soon be implicated in a corruption scandal sweeping the industry, in the wake of bribery...

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Andrew Witty: GSK’s China Corruption Scandal Will Hit Business

25.07.2013 - A "shameful" corruption scandal in China will inevitably impact GlaxoSmithKline's business, the British drug maker's chief executive said on Wednesday, adding he was ready to go to...

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China Pharma Probe Widens, U.S. Citizen Detained

24.07.2013 - A U.S. citizen has been detained in China in connection with probes sparked by an unfolding corruption scandal in the drugs industry, as China widens the range of international...

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GSK Says Executives Appear To Have Broken Chinese law

22.07.2013 - British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday some of its executives in China appeared to have broken the law in a bribery scandal, as it promised changes in its business model...

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GSK Boss To Address China Scandal At Results

22.07.2013 - GlaxoSmithKline Chief Executive Andrew Witty will detail what action the drugmaker is taking in response to allegations of bribery against it in China when he presents quarterly...