Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer in bid to snap up Germany’s Ratiopharm
04 Mar 2010
The acqusuition, estimated at about $4.1 billion, will be the biggest generic company buyout since Teva bought Barr Pharmaceuticals for $7.4 billion in July 2008
Panacea Biotec develops Swine flu vaccine
03 Mar 2010
Astellas launches $3.5-billion hostile bid for OSI Pharmaceuticals
02 Mar 2010
Astellas Pharma said that it will now take its offer directly to OSI shareholders and commence a tender offer today to acquire all the outstanding common stock of OSI for $52 per share
Merck KGaA beats Thermo Fisher to acquire Millipore for $7.2 billion
02 Mar 2010
German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA will acquire biotech purifiers and filters maker Millipore Corporation for $7.2 billion, including debt, in order to expand into the life science sector
Ranbaxy swings back to profit
25 Feb 2010
Ranbaxy Laboratories today reported a net profit of Rs488.23 crore in October-December 2009, against a net loss of Rs819 crore in the comparable quarter of the previous year.
AstraZeneca India to pay 500 per cent dividend
23 Feb 2010
Abbott bids for 20 per cent of Solvay India
17 Feb 2010
GSK Pharma posts Q4 PAT of Rs103.59 crore
16 Feb 2010
AstraZeneca inks arthritis drug deal with Rigel
16 Feb 2010
US FDA approves AstraZeneca's Crestor
09 Feb 2010
Newly engineered enzyme is a powerful staph antibiotic
06 Feb 2010
With their best chemical antibiotics slowly failing, scientists are increasingly looking to nature for a way to control deadly staph bacteria - the culprit behind most hospital infections
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