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U.S. Justices Agree to Hear Teva's Copaxone Appeal

01.04.2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Mar. 31 agreed to hear an appeal filed by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in a patent fight over top-selling multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. The move...

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GSK Combined Melanoma Treatment Delayed in Europe

28.03.2014 - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the UK's largest pharmaceutical company, has provisionally withdrawn its marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the...

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Baxter to Split Medical and Biotech Businesses in 2015

28.03.2014 - U.S. healthcare giant Baxter International has announced plans to split its pharmaceuticals and its medical devices businesses into two publicly traded companies from mid-2015...

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Novo Nordisk Sees Chance of U.S. Tresiba Launch Before Rivals

21.03.2014 - Novo Nordisk should still be able to introduce its long-acting insulin Tresiba on the U.S. market before rival products, despite being hit by a delay, the CEO of the Danish...

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EU Looks to Speed Drug Access With Staggered Approval

20.03.2014 - The European Medicines Agency, EMA, has said it will try out a new process of staggered drug approvals in a bid to accelerate access to new medicines. The decision to pilot so...

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Merck Serono Names Meeta Gulyani to Pharma Executive Committee

18.03.2014 - Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Germany's Merck KGaA, has named Meeta Gulyani as head of strategy and global franchises, effective May 7. She will be based in...

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Novozymes Biopharma Announces Collaboration with Janssen to Evaluate Proprietary Veltis Half-Life Extension Technology

18.03.2014 - Novozymes Biopharma, part of Novozymes A/S, has announced a collaboration with Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen). The agreement will enable Janssen to evaluate...

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New Pharma Services JV of DSM and JLL Launched

12.03.2014 - DPx Holdings, the new global contract development and manufacturing joint venture of Dutch chemical producer DSM with U.S. private equity firm JLL Partners, was launched on Mar. 11...