12.04.2012
- Swiss drugmaker Roche dangled the prospect of a higher offer before reluctant U.S. bid target Illumina on Thursday along with broadly flat first-quarter sales supported by its top...
12.04.2012
- Watson Pharmaceuticals is on track to announce a deal to buy Actavis for around $6 billion by the end of April, creating one of the world's biggest producers of generic drugs...
10.04.2012
- Amgen said it will buy privately held KAI Pharmaceuticals for $315 million to gain access to an experimental treatment for a common complication suffered by chronic kidney disease...
09.04.2012
- Carl Icahn sued Amylin Pharmaceuticals on Monday to extend a deadline for nominating directors, as the activist investor pushes to win enough board seats to engineer a sale of the...
09.04.2012
- Avon Products named Johnson & Johnson senior executive Sherilyn McCoy to be its new CEO, presenting Coty with another hurdle in its $10 billion bid for the world's largest direct...
05.04.2012
- Italian drugmaker Newron has signed a strategic collaboration and licensing deal for its Parkinson's disease drug safinamide with Italian drugs and chemicals maker Zambon which...
05.04.2012
- A new batch of counterfeit cancer drug Avastin discovered in the United States was bought in Turkey and shipped through Britain by a UK-based business, officials said on Wednesday...
05.04.2012
- A raft of new medicines pushed U.S. spending on drugs modestly higher last year, but the gains were curbed by weak prescription use as Americans avoided doctor visits, according to...
