Pharmaceuticals
Cadila Healthcare to demerge consumer products division into Carnation, merge Zydus Hospitals with itself
05 Jul 2008
UK's Shire acquires maker of Firazyr, Jerini AG
04 Jul 2008
US court ruling helps AstraZeneca stave off Teva, Sandoz from 4$-billion Seroquel
03 Jul 2008
A US court has upheld Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca's patent rights to the over $4 billion a year schizophrenia and bipolar blockbuster Seroquel
Johnson & Johnson Nordic AB acquires Åmic
23 Jun 2008
Daiichi to make open offer for Ranbaxy on August 8
16 Jun 2008
Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo, which agreed to acquire Ranbaxy promoter group's 34.8 per cent stake in Ranbaxy Laboratories, will make an open offer for another 20 per cent in the Indian pharma major on August 8.
CuraGen presents encouraging results from ongoing Phase I / II study of CR011-vcMMAE in metastatic melanoma
02 Jun 2008
Glenmark gets nod for marketing two drugs in US
30 May 2008
Pharma firms threaten to stop production
28 May 2008
Over 650 drug manufacturers say they would halt production of several products within a month or two unless the government hike prices of 33 bulk drugs with immediate effect
Alnylam in $1 billion RNAi drug research deal with Japan's Takeda
28 May 2008
US biotech firm Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical will jointly develop drugs for treatment of cancer and metabolic diseases using RNAi technology, under a deal potentially valued at $1 billion.
Ranbaxy to develop new drugs for Merck & Co
10 May 2008
Ranbaxy Laboratories, the country's largest drug maker is close to striking a deal for collaborating on research for new drug discovery with Merck.
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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