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Pfizer partners in shock after surprise Exubera exit

King trims its court following Altace about-turn

Discarded body parts used to cut animal testing

Pharma outsourcing: people on the move

Study your rats so the results don't bite

 
   
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Viagra could cause hearing loss

Aspirin won't protect women from a broken heart

Pfizer counts the cost of Exubera, Nektar suffers

Viracept back on the market in selected countries

 
 

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Pfizer partners in shock after surprise Exubera exit
We've all cringed at stories of people dumping their partners via text message but in the world of business, Pfizer seems to have taken things to a new level when its Exubera partners were allegedly left to find... Read


King trims its court following Altace about-turn
King Pharmaceuticals last week announced that it would be cutting 20 per cent of its workforce after the US Court of Appeals reversed a previous court ruling and invalidated a patent covering the firm's blood pressure... Read


Discarded body parts used to cut animal testing
A team of US scientists have used typically discarded body parts to create a 'joint in a test tube', which they can use to test arthritis drugs instead of using animals... Read


Pharma outsourcing: people on the move
Icon, PPD, Chiltern, Kendle, Omnicare and Aesica have all had people on the move in the world of pharmaceutical outsourcing... Read


Study your rats so the results don't bite
New research has shown that even if laboratory rats are genetically identical they can still develop distinct metabolic profiles that could skew drug toxicity and metabolism studies... Read


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Viagra could cause hearing loss
The earth may move and the heavens may shake but drug regulators now think Viagra could also make you go deaf... Read


Aspirin won't protect women from a broken heart
While aspirin has been found to reduce the risk of heart attack by a quarter, recent research has found that women are less likely to benefit from the drug than men... Read


Pfizer counts the cost of Exubera, Nektar suffers
With yesterday's perhaps unsurprising news that Pfizer has cut its losses and pulled out of the inhaled insulin market by dropping Exubera and giving up on second generation devices, the world's biggest pharma... Read


Viracept back on the market in selected countries
Roche heard early this morning that the European Commission (EC) has decided to reinstate the marketing authorisation for the company's HIV drug, Viracept (nelfinavir), but countries outside the EU have yet to... Read

Weekly Comment

'We are not anti-Asia' says EU chemicals body

There have been more calls this month to tighten regulations on pharmaceutical ingredient suppliers in the wake of the recent safety concerns emanating from low-cost regions such as China and India.  However, despite having recently established a dedicated 'China Taskforce', a major EU chemicals consortium insists that it has nothing against the region or its manufacturers. Read



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Industry bodies call for EU clinical trials directive changes
Two major bioscience industry trade associations have called for changes to be made to the European clinical trials directive in order to bring about "harmonisation, transparency and consistency" in this area across... Read


Pfizer abandons ship as Exubera sinks
Pfizer revealed today that it is abandoning its once-touted blockbuster Exubera, ending months of speculation as to whether the fledging world-first inhalable insulin would sink or swim in the fierce waters of... Read


Novartis suffers from generics, cuts jobs
Novartis has turned in its results for the first nine months of the year, with income gnawed at by generic competition and product suspensions, but still claiming record earnings helped along by divestment gains... Read


Online drug discovery services database to be launched
A US start-up firm is gearing up to launch an online database where researchers can access a variety of drug discovery service providers across the globe... Read


Big players boosting 3PL clout
Three big industry names have been busily bolstering their pharma logistics clout: Thermo Fisher Scientific, UPS and Kuehne+Nagel... Read

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