25.09.2013
- Germany's Merck KGaA said it would start a new study testing its experimental lung cancer vaccine Stimuvax, which fell through in a previous late-stage trial. Merck said it would...
30.08.2013
- German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA has appointed James Stewart as its new chief information officer, succeeding Frédéric Wohlwend, who the company said has...
05.08.2013
- India has revoked a patent granted to GlaxoSmithKline for breast cancer drug Tykerb, a decision that follows a landmark India court ruling disallowing patents for incremental...
31.07.2013
- Big Pharma is still relying on belt-tightening to prop up financial results. Pfizer and Merck & Co said on Tuesday their quarterly results were again hit by generic competition for...
25.07.2013
- Swiss drug maker Novartis suffered a fresh blow to the turnaround prospects of its loss-making vaccines division as a key committee advised against including its meningitis B...
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...
19.07.2013
- Belgian drugmaker UCB has been visited by Chinese authorities as the country widens investigations into bribery by drugmakers, following allegations against Britain's...
18.07.2013
- Chinese authorities investigating the alleged bribery of doctors and officials by GlaxoSmithKline have stopped the drugmaker's head of finance for China, a British citizen, from...
