09.07.2014
- US drugmaker AbbVie has raised its offer for London-based pharmaceutical producer Shire to £30.1 billion ($51.3 billion), hoping to win over its reluctant target after three...
08.07.2014
- Omega Pharma, a Belgian healthcare products distributor, is considering selling itself nearly three years after it was taken private by its founder, the news agency Bloomberg said...
03.07.2014
- Swiss-based Roche Holding AG plans to pay up to $1.73 billion to buy Seragon Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held US biotech company that researches breast cancer treatments. Roche...
30.06.2014
- The European Medicine Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of Abasria, Eli Lilly's biosimilar version of Sanofi's insulin glargine sold as Lantus. This means that the French...
24.06.2014
- British drugmaker Shire has rejected a £27 billion ($46 billion) takeover offer from AbbVie, the latest attempt by a US healthcare firm to tap into lower tax rates abroad via an...
12.06.2014
- A former employee of Novartis Pharma KK, the Japan unit of the Swiss drugmaker, has been arrested on suspicion of manipulating data to promote the company's best-selling blood...
03.06.2014
- US drugmaker Alexion Pharmaceuticals said it is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Soliris, an intravenous drug for two potentially fatal blood disorders that can damage the...
02.06.2014
- Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, has decided to launch its diabetes drug Tresiba in Germany after seeing signs of a more favorable pricing...
