31.10.2012
- British academic researchers have secured 7 million pounds ($11 million) of funding from the country's Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate a range of potential new drugs...
31.10.2012
- The best medical innovations for next year include an almond-size device that's implanted in the mouth to relieve severe headaches and a hand-held scanner resembling a blow dryer...
20.09.2012
- Pressure from governments to lower drug prices risks undermining medical innovation, Bayer's chief executive Marjin Dekkers said on Wednesday, echoing complaints of other drug...
13.08.2012
- Ireland's Elan is to spin off its Neotope drug discovery business platform as a separate public company, making Elan immediately profitable and potentially more appealing as a...
12.07.2012
- AstraZeneca has clinched two new deals in neuroscience, underlining the drugmaker's increasing reliance on external projects to refill a sparse pipeline as it tests a new low-cost...
03.07.2012
- When Roche paid $46.8 billion in 2009 to gain full ownership of Genentech, fears were rife that the arrival of the Swiss men in suits would stifle the free-wheeling innovative...
27.06.2012
- Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Tuesday it was overhauling its research operations by closing the 80-year-old New Jersey facility where Valium was discovered, cutting 1,000 jobs and...
06.06.2012
- Germany's Merck KGaA and India's Dr. Reddy's Laboratories have struck a deal to develop cheap versions of biotech cancer drugs, seeking to tap into a new market as patents on...
