Keyword: Pharmaceuticals

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Toxic Capsules Help the Medicine Go down in China

18.06.2012 - Hou Zhihui breaks open a cold-medicine capsule, pours the powder on to a piece of steamed dough and folds it together. He passes the miniature bun to a colleague who pops it in her...

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Greek Health System Crumbles under Weight of Crisis

15.06.2012 - Greece's rundown state hospitals are cutting off vital drugs, limiting non-urgent operations and rationing even basic medical materials for exhausted doctors as a combination of...

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Protection for Products and Customers

14.06.2012 - The Real Thing - Copies, fakes and imitations pose a problem for nearly every segment of industry. Counterfeiting is booming. Imitations are not just a problem for consumers...

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Ophthotech Drug May Shake up Eye Treatment Market

14.06.2012 - Competition in the eye drug market is heating up, with an experimental drug from private U.S. biotech Ophthotech showing impressive results when added to Roche's Lucentis in a...

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Upsher-Smith to Pay up to $555 Million for Proximagen

13.06.2012 - U.S. drugmaker Upsher-Smith Laboratories is to buy British group Proximagen for 223 million pounds ($347 million) plus further payments potentially worth up to 134 million based on...

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Fresenius Lifts Outlook again on Rivals' Shortages

11.06.2012 - German healthcare conglomerate Fresenius on Monday raised its 2012 profit outlook for a second time this year as its injectable generic drugs unit Kabi continues to benefit from...

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Spain Coughs up Billions to Keep Regions in Medicine

09.06.2012 - Spain finalised plans to pay off the healthcare debts of its regions on Friday as some pharmacists closed their doors in protest over unpaid bills in the country, where drugmaker...

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China Changes Patent Law in Fight for Cheaper Drugs

09.06.2012 - China has overhauled parts of its intellectual property laws to allow its drugmakers to make cheap copies of medicines still under patent protection in an initiative likely to...