Pharmaceuticals

Stryker to buy French extremities device company Memometal for $162 million

07 Jun 2011

Mylan to rename Matrix Lab as 'Mylan'

27 May 2011

Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire Lithuania’s AB Sanitas for $443 million

24 May 2011

AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo to promote Amgen's new bone cancer drug

24 May 2011

J&J to buy J B Chemicals’ Russian OTC drugs for $260 million

24 May 2011

Japan's Takeda to acquire Swiss drugmaker Nycomed for $13.6 billion

19 May 2011

Shire to acquire regenerative medicine firm Advanced BioHealing for $750 mn

19 May 2011

Glenmark sells new drug licence to Sanofi for $50 mn

17 May 2011

In addition, Glenmark could receive potential success-based development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments of up to $613 million, subject to the drug getting past the remaining phases of human trials

Japan's Takeda Pharma in $12 billion to buy Swiss rival Nycomed: report

12 May 2011

Alkermes to buy Elan Drug Technologies for $960 million

09 May 2011

Sanofi-Aventis shortens name to Sanofi

07 May 2011

Taro Pharma challenges Suven's ANDA in US court

06 May 2011

Piramal Healthcare to foray into financial services

06 May 2011

Cipla posts lower Q4 net profit of Rs214 crore

06 May 2011

Ranbaxy in settlement talks with USFDA: Reports

05 May 2011

Teva trumps Valeant with a $6.8-bn deal to acquire Cephalon

02 May 2011

Trumping a hostile bid by Valeant Pharmaceuticals Teva will acquire specialty pharma company Cephalon

Strides oncology facility gets US FDA approval

02 May 2011

Biocon to divest stake in Germany's AxiCorp

28 Apr 2011

Biocon Ltd had acquired a controlling stake in the German drug distributor in a bid to market its bio-similar drugs in Europe

J&J to buy Swiss medical devices maker Synthes for $21.3 billion

27 Apr 2011

Johnson & Johnson expects the acquisition to create the world's most innovative and comprehensive orthopaedics business

Lupin signs agreement with Abott Laboratories and others for Fenofibrate

27 Apr 2011

Wockhardt receives US FDA approval for generic Alzheimer's drug

25 Apr 2011

Sun to co market Merck's Diabetes drugs in India

25 Apr 2011

Merck, Sanofi Pasteur start Phase-3 trials of paediatric combination vaccine in US

23 Apr 2011

Wockhardt's generic version of Pfizer's Effexor XR capsules gets US FDA approval

19 Apr 2011

UK government sues Reckitt Benckiser for £90 mn

18 Apr 2011