25.09.2012
- A Pill a Day - Unlike chemicals, the pharmaceuticals sector does not have cycles. Even in a sluggish economy, sick people will still need medicine. But the widening European debt...
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...
04.09.2012
- Israeli biotechnology firm Atox Bio, developing a drug it hopes can treat severe infections such as those caused by flesh-eating bacteria and deadly viruses, expects to ask...
30.08.2012
- U.S. drug regulators gave the nod to a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries drug that boosts the production of infection-fighting white blood cells in certain cancer patients receiving...
20.08.2012
- India's highest court will hear final arguments starting this week in a landmark case over drug patents that could change the rules for the country's healthcare sector and...
19.08.2012
- China is set to increase the number of products on its price-controlled "essential drugs" list to 700 from 307 by the end of the year, the official Shanghai Securities Journal...
15.08.2012
- GlaxoSmithKline advanced its clear-out of non-core drugs on Wednesday with a deal to sell 25 older brands marketed in Australia to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare for 172 million...
14.08.2012
- German drugmaker Merck KGaA beat forecasts for quarterly adjusted earnings and predicted faster growth in underlying core profit this year on higher pharmaceutical sales and a...