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Inyx Pharma gets new life; Ashton awaits fate

Inhaled insulin: make or break?

Pfizer partners in shock after surprise Exubera exit

Icon living up to its name

Preclinical services news in brief

 
   
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Inhalers failing asthmatics

Beer goes flat for Kirin, splashes cash on 'ultimate cancer warrior' instead

Vitamin B12 the key to oral insulin?

Viagra could cause hearing loss

 
 

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Inyx Pharma gets new life; Ashton awaits fate
Inyx Pharma has been given a new lease on life after it was bought by another UK firm, finally bringing relief after it was dragged into administration when its US parent company Inyx Inc. ran aground financially... Read


Inhaled insulin: make or break?
Eli Lilly is remaining optimistic about its yet-to-be-approved inhaled insulin despite the dramatic downfall of Pfizer's Exubera. But is Exubera's fall from grace an indication of things to come for inhaled diabetes... Read


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


Icon living up to its name
Icon is living up to its name, according to a recent contract research organisation (CRO) survey, which also recognised Quintiles and PPD in terms of quality performance... Read


Preclinical services news in brief
In this week's review of activity within the preclinical research services arena, new deals have emerged involving Cato Research, Genoway, Caliper Life Sciences and Rules-Based Medicine... Read


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Inhalers failing asthmatics
Complicated inhaler devices are failing patients according to a recent report, with tricky mechanisms and techniques resulting in low drug delivery and poor disease management... Read


Beer goes flat for Kirin, splashes cash on 'ultimate cancer warrior' instead
Japan's Kirin Holdings, best-known in the West as a beer maker, will acquire a controlling stake in Kyowa Hakko, and thus get its hands on what Kyowa claims are 'the ultimate antibody warriors' against cancer... Read


Vitamin B12 the key to oral insulin?
Pfizer may have given up on its non-injectable insulin, but researchers in the US think they may have cracked a way to deliver the hormone orally, linking it up to vitamin B12 to protect it through the digestive... Read


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

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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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


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


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


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


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

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