Keyword: prescription drugs

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Bayer CEO Decries Pressure to Lower Drug Prices

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...

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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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US Senate Probes Painkiller Makers, Allied Groups

10.05.2012 - A U.S. Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers...

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New J&J CEO Parachuting Into Tough Terrain

26.04.2012 - Johnson & Johnson is sending in a former Army Ranger to clean up several big messes that have hurt its reputation, earnings and share price in the past three years. Alex Gorsky...

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U.S. Medicine Spending Rose to $320 Billion Last Year

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...

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Ashland Expands PVP Production

17.02.2012 - Ashland said it is responding to strong demand for Plasdone polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) by adding new low-viscosity, pharmaceutical-grade PVP capacity at its manufacturing facility...