Keyword: Pharmaceuticals

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GlaxoSmithKline Set for Human Genome Takeover

16.07.2012 - GlaxoSmithKline is expected to announce an agreement to acquire Human Genome Sciences for about $2.8 billion as soon as Monday, ending three months of its hostile pursuit of the U...

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EU Agency Lifts Lid on Drug Data Secrets

15.07.2012 - Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl...

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Generics Seen Cutting into Drug Sales Growth through 2016

12.07.2012 - Annual global spending on prescription drugs will rise 25% by 2016 to $1.2 trillion, as surging growth in emerging markets eclipses weak gains in developed markets like the United...

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AstraZeneca Tries New Tack in Brain Research

12.07.2012 - AstraZeneca has clinched two new deals in neuroscience, underlining the drugmaker's increasing reliance on external projects to refill a sparse pipeline as it tests a new low-cost...

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EU Set to Simplify Clinical Trial Rules

11.07.2012 - The European Union's executive is due to propose new rules next week to make it easier for drug companies and researchers to carry out cross-border clinical trials, in a bid to cut...

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K-V Sues FDA over Makena in Fight for Survival

06.07.2012 - K-V Pharmaceutical is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for not cracking down on compounded versions of its premature birth drug Makena, in a last-ditch fight for the...

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Pfizer Sued by Retailers for Generic Lipitor Delay

06.07.2012 - Five big U.S. retailers filed an antitrust lawsuit against Pfizer and India's Ranbaxy Laboratories on Thursday, accusing them of conspiring to delay sales of generic versions of...

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India to Give Free Generic Drugs to Hundreds of Millions

05.07.2012 - India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of hundreds of millions, but a ban on branded drugs...