Meda acquires four Roche products
August 28, 2008Sales and Marketing Roche
Stockholm-based specialty pharma company Meda has bought four of Roche’s pharma products in a deal worth 120 million Euros – …
Call for universal Hepatitis B vaccination
August 22, 2008Sales and Marketing hepatitis
The pharma industry has joined up with patient groups to petition for universal Hepatitis B immunisation for all children in …
Boost for Pfizer’s Champix from NHS quit smoking report
August 22, 2008Sales and Marketing Champix, smoking
Pfizer's smoking cessation drug Champix is the most effective pharmaceutical aid to quitting, according to new figures. A report on …
Welcome to the real world
August 21, 2008Research and Development clinical trials, design, observational, phase III
Suiters approach Protherics
August 21, 2008Sales and Marketing BTG, Protherics
UK biopharmaceutical company Protherics has received approaches from a number of companies interested in acquiring the biopharmaceutical company. The company …
Oxford BioMedica spurns takeover approach
August 21, 2008Sales and Marketing Oxford BioMedica, biotech
Oxford BioMedica has unanimously rejected two takeover offers from GeneThera, saying the US firm was "not a credible bidder". The …
Europe’s largest academic health research partnership created
August 21, 2008Research and Development, Sales and Marketing hc
Five British medical research centres and hospitals have come together to create a new academic health science partnership, the largest …
Drug regulation: still room for improvement
August 15, 2008Research and Development, Sales and Marketing drug safety, medicines act
This year is a bit of a jamboree of health-related anniversaries, with the NHS celebrating 60 years and the Medicines …
Latest news from Datamonitor
August 15, 2008Sales and Marketing digi
Clinical decision support tools, technologies that provide information to aid the diagnosis and treatment of patients, are set to make …
Parexel seals ClinPhone deal
August 15, 2008Research and Development
Parexel has finalised its acquisition of ClinPhone after rivals Quintiles dropped out of the race for the clinical technology firm. …
AstraZeneca signs Singapore cancer research deal
August 15, 2008Research and Development AstraZeneca, Singapore, emerging markets
AstraZeneca has signed a deal to work with Singapore’s National Cancer Centre and National University Hospital to develop new cancer …
Pfizer to close Irish manufacturing site
August 15, 2008Manufacturing and Production
Pfizer is to close its manufacturing site in Cork with the loss of 180 jobs, following a failed 18-month effort …
ABPI attracts new members
August 15, 2008UK industry body the ABPI has swelled its ranks with the addition of three new full members, bringing its total …
Schering-Plough expands in China
August 15, 2008Sales and Marketing
Schering-Plough has expanded its presence in China by taking full control of an existing partnership based in Shanghai.The company has …
Boehringer hit by currencies
August 14, 2008Sales and Marketing
Boehringer Ingelheim has been hit by the strength of the euro, which has hit its revenues and profits in the …
Bayer boosts pre-clinical oncology pipeline
August 8, 2008Research and Development
Bayer Schering Pharma has acquired two potential cancer drugs and a range of oncology compounds from Nycomed in a deal …
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