Keyword: Pharmaceuticals

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J&J Tops Estimates as Prescription, OTC Drugs Shine

16.04.2013 - Johnson & Johnson beat Wall Street's quarterly profit estimates on sharply lower taxes, strong sales of prescription drugs and a revival of over-the-counter medicines that had been...

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Actelion Flags Possible Early Return to Profit Growth

16.04.2013 - Actelion, Europe's largest biotech company, said it may return to profit growth sooner than expected after its first-quarter earnings more than doubled and sales of its mainstay...

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New Technology Speeding Progress on Bird Flu Vaccine

13.04.2013 - Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed...

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Tamiflu And Cancer Drugs Lift Roche Above Forecasts

11.04.2013 - A spike in U.S. demand for flu drug Tamiflu and strong sales of mainstay cancer medicines lifted first-quarter sales at Roche by a bigger-than-expected 5%. The healthy performance...

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Developments of Drug Delivery Devices are Increasingly Focused on Patients’ Needs

11.04.2013 - Delivery Boom - Drug Delivery Devices currently rank among the major pharmaceutical trends. Their optimization is largely influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, physicians and...

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GSK Plans $1 Million Prize to Jump-start "Electroceuticals"

10.04.2013 - GlaxoSmithKline, Britain's biggest drugmaker, is placing a small but important bet on a new way of treating diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body. The company said...

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Teva - Lonza Evaluates Biosimilars Opportunity

05.04.2013 - The Teva-Lonza Joint Venture issued the following statement today: The potential to develop, manufacture and market affordable, efficacious and safe biosimilars remains an area of...

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Roche to Release All Tamiflu Drug Data

05.04.2013 - After a lengthy fight, Swiss drugmaker Roche said it had agreed to hand over data from all clinical trials of its best-selling flu drug Tamiflu to a group of outside researchers...