23.05.2013
- Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a new type of treatment for patients with depression that have failed to benefit from standard...
23.05.2013
- Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the...
22.05.2013
- The U.S. government has signed an antibiotics development deal worth up to $200 million with GlaxoSmithKline to tackle the dual threats of drug resistance and bioterrorism. The...
20.05.2013
- Generic drugmaker Actavis, which has been the subject of takeover speculation, plans to buy specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott for $5 billion in stock. The companies...
14.05.2013
- The French Competition Authority fined drugmaker Sanofi €40.6 million ($52.7 million) on Tuesday for "disparaging" generic competition to its Plavix blood thinner. The decision on...
14.05.2013
- Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development of alternative methods in...
11.05.2013
- The world's biggest drug makers have for years enjoyed rich premiums for their medicines in the U.S. market. Those days may be coming to an end. Companies like Pfizer and...
10.05.2013
- A federal judge in New York on Friday declined to temporarily halt a court order directing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make emergency contraception available over the...
