15.07.2016
- AstraZeneca has filed a lawsuit to prevent the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving the sale of generic versions of Crestor, its multi-billion-dollar cholesterol...
12.07.2016
- The UK pharmaceutical industry and government officials have established a task force to address regulatory concerns and other top issues facing the pharmaceutical sector as the...
07.07.2016
- British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has formed a strategic partnership with Denmark’s LEO Pharma for skin disease treatments. Under the deal, LEO gains a global license to...
07.07.2016
- Under months of pressure from Sanofi as an acquisition target, Medivation has now agreed to allow the French drugmaker to look at its books. Sanofi announced on Jul. 5 it had...
01.06.2016
- Sir Denys Henderson, former chairman of Britain’s Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) has died at the age of 83. Henderson’s legacy is the 1993 break-up of ICI into a chemical...
19.05.2016
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis has announced plans to split its Pharmaceutical division into two business units, Novartis Pharmaceutical and Novartis Oncology. The first-mentioned will...
09.05.2016
- Sanofi is turning up the heat on its acquisition target, US biopharmaceuticals producer Medivation, but the strategy doesn’t seem to be working. Last week, the French drugmaker...
02.05.2016
- AstraZeneca has agreed to grant exclusive rights for its Zurampic gout treatment in the US to partner Ironwood Pharmaceuticals. Zurampic was approved by the US Food and Drug...
