20.01.2011
- Poor Controls - In the past five years, several contaminated products have led to patient and end-user injuries and death globally. In 2007, there was diethylene-glycol...
04.01.2011
- Unions at Sanofi-Aventis have called on staff in France to strike on Wednesday to fight plans to cut jobs at the French drugmaker. A group of nine unions representing staff at...
16.12.2010
- Johnson & Johnson promoted the heads of its medical device unit and its pharmaceuticals division to vice chairmen on Wednesday, a move that could put them in competition to succeed...
08.12.2010
- U.S. healthcare group Johnson & Johnson made a long-awaited €1.75 billion bid for Crucell on Wednesday, shrugging off the Dutch biotech company's recent problems with vaccine...
16.11.2010
- AstraZeneca has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to help it sell Astra Tech, a Swedish unit that makes dental implants and medical devices, for about $2 billion, a source familiar with...
11.10.2010
- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis, faced with looming generic competition for its top-selling product, said on Friday it was cutting its U.S. pharmaceutical operations by about 25%...
02.08.2010
- Chances are, every big pharmaceutical company is running the numbers and weighing the pros and cons of acquiring Genzyme. French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is poised to make a bid...
28.07.2010
- Merck & Co said on Tuesday it struck a deal with Sinopharm Group to market the U.S. drugmaker's cervical cancer vaccine and other vaccines in China, as the pharmaceutical industry...
