Pharmaceuticals
Shire to buy US biotech firm Baxalta for $32 bn
12 Jan 2016
Baxalta offers Shire a promising range of new products to complement its expanding portfolio of high-priced treatments for rare or "orphan" diseases
Aurobindo Phrma to set up plant in S Arabia
11 Jan 2016
Cadilla Healthcare shares slump after US warning
31 Dec 2015
EU to hear Indian officials over ban on drugs tested by GVK Bio: report
30 Dec 2015
While such a meeting may not help revoke the EU ban, it is expected to help improve the future scenario for Indian generic drug makers
KaloBios Pharma fires CEO Martin Shkreli
22 Dec 2015
Shkreli was pilloried for raising the price of a decades-old drug acquired by Turing Pharmaceuticals to $750 a pill from $13.50, but his arrest last week was on unrelated charges
Martin Shkreli rejects charges
21 Dec 2015
Business survival forces Isis Pharma to rename itself
21 Dec 2015
A month after denying the need for a name change, Isis Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has now rebranded itself Ionis Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline’s majority-owned HIV business to buy drugs from US rival Bristol-Myers Squibb
18 Dec 2015
After Australia, UK's ASA to probe Reckitt Benckiser's Nurofen claim
15 Dec 2015
A day after an Australian court ordered the removal of Reckitt Benckiser's Nurofen painkiller from stores for misleading consumers, the company has now come under probe by the UK advertising regulator
Australian court orders Reckitt Benckiser's Nurofen pain relief products pulled out of market
14 Dec 2015
Sun Pharma in pact to develop brain stroke drug
11 Dec 2015
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