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Karma for big pharma? Sanofi-Aventis caught out by Inyx collapse

Explosions at two pharma plants

Thermo continues fishing in India

Survey asks: what to do about counterfeit drugs?

Big pharma reaches to Summit for zebrafish safety screening

 
   
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Bayer banishes high dose MS drug

Takeda sleeping drug takes 'Worst Product Award'

Another safety scare for Roche

Wellcome boost for Alzheimer's research

 
 

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Karma for big pharma? Sanofi-Aventis caught out by Inyx collapse
Sanofi-Aventis has had to take Inyx USA to court after it failed to deliver on a contract manufacturing and supply agreement, a situation that Aventis feared could "seriously harm its interests". There may be important... Read


Explosions at two pharma plants
Two pharmaceutical companies have faced explosions at their plants in the last week, local media reported... Read


Thermo continues fishing in India
Thermo Fisher Scientific continues to fish for new opportunities in India and has begun setting up a new clinical services base in the country... Read


Survey asks: what to do about counterfeit drugs?
Action should be taken to curb the counterfeit drug trade, but not via legal intervention, the results of a European survey say... Read


Big pharma reaches to Summit for zebrafish safety screening
Summit (formerly Vastox) has signed a $450,000 (€312,000) deal with one of the world's top five pharma firms to enable it to use Summit's zebrafish-platform in its drug safety programme... Read


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Bayer banishes high dose MS drug
Bayer Schering Pharma this week announced that it has scrapped plans to introduce a double-dose version of its top-selling multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Betaferon (interferon beta-1b) by the end of the year following... Read


Takeda sleeping drug takes 'Worst Product Award'
Japanese pharma firm Takeda beat off strong competition from the likes of Coca-Cola to take home the dubious honour of Consumer International's 'Worst Product' award thanks to its sleeping pill ad... Read


Another safety scare for Roche
In another safety concern over a long-approved drug, Roche has been forced to add new warnings to its anti-transplant rejection drug CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil (MMF)) amid the news that it is associated with... Read


Wellcome boost for Alzheimer's research
The UK's largest charity, the Wellcome Trust, has awarded £1.3m (€1.9m) to fund the world's largest ever genome-wide association study to identify the genetic origins of Alzheimer's disease... Read

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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 out the product was being scrapped through a press release. Read



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Big pharma lends a helping hand
Despite often attracting a barrage of negative publicity, particularly in regard to a perception of putting profits before people, big pharma firms are still capable of showing their human side in times of crisis... Read


Pfizer to cut another 200 jobs
Pfizer is already cutting jobs in relation to its failed Exubera with the announcement that some 200 jobs are to go at the drug giant's Portage and Kalamazoo sites, according to local media reports... Read


Contract manufacturing news in brief
Novavax, Cobra Biomanufacturing, Catalent Pharma Solutions, and Suven Life Sciences have all recently announced new contract manufacturing news... Read


Major Singapore investment for Novartis
Swiss pharma Novartis today announced the largest manufacturing investment in its history, revealing plans for a $700m (€486.5m) biotech facility to be built alongside its new solid dose plant in the low... Read


Ranbaxy's statin a drag on PPD's bottom line
PPD's decision to in-license an investigational compound is proving to be a drag on its bottom line as the firm continues to seek a development partner for the drug... Read

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