Meda acquires four Roche products

August 28, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Sales 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 …

Suiters approach Protherics

August 21, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Research 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, 2008
Research 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, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Research 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, 2008
Research 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, 2008
Manufacturing 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, 2008

UK 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, 2008
Sales 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, 2008
Sales and Marketing

Boehringer Ingelheim has been hit by the strength of the euro, which has hit its revenues and profits in the …

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