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Small Generic Drug Firms Need Niches to Survive Looming Price War

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...

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Drugmakers Brace for More Pain, Some Gain in France

18.07.2012 - Lower prices, higher taxes and fewer drugs paid for by the state could be the new regime for France's pharmaceutical industry when the government details plans in September for €2...

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Generics Seen Cutting into Drug Sales Growth through 2016

12.07.2012 - Annual global spending on prescription drugs will rise 25% by 2016 to $1.2 trillion, as surging growth in emerging markets eclipses weak gains in developed markets like the United...

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U.S. Medicine Spending Rose to $320 Billion Last Year

05.04.2012 - A raft of new medicines pushed U.S. spending on drugs modestly higher last year, but the gains were curbed by weak prescription use as Americans avoided doctor visits, according to...

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French Drugs Market to Shrink in 2012

30.03.2012 - France's drugs market is set to shrink in 2012 for the first time, hit by government austerity measures to curb healthcare spending, according to a study published by...

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U.S. Top Court Questions State Drug Data Limits

27.04.2011 - U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned on Tuesday whether a state may prohibit the use of prescription drug records for marketing, expressing concerns that it violated free...

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Vermont Drug Mining Law Decision Expected from U.S. Supreme Court

10.01.2011 - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday that it would decide whether a state law restricting commercial access to information about prescription drug records violated constitutional...