28.08.2017
- The European Commission, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have signed an agreement enabling them to share non-public and...
24.07.2017
- Industry leaders from European and UK pharmaceutical and life science associations have written a joint letter to the chief Brexit negotiators Michel Barnier (EU) and David Davis...
29.03.2017
- UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals are investing in a gene sequencing project that uses anonymous patient data held by the UK Biobank. The...
07.03.2017
- Regulators in the EU and the US have signed a transatlantic agreement to recognize inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines carried out in their respective countries...
07.10.2016
- Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is planning to sell the assets of Actavis Generics in the UK and Ireland to Accord Healthcare, a subsidiary of India’s Intas Pharmaceuticals...
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...
03.09.2015
- In September 2014, Merck announced the €13.1 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, which by mid-August has received antitrust clearance from all relevant jurisdictions including...
28.11.2012
- Drugmakers - led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson - are stepping up efforts to ensure their medicines are available and affordable in poor countries, after being attacked...