Argentina

In a ruling that will have major implications for the country's healthcare system Argentina's senate has passed a law that recognises eating disorders, including obesity, anorexia... 2008-08-15

Argentina's Ministry of Health has granted a major contract to state medicine producers in a bid to support local pharmaceutical production. A contract worth ARS37mn (US$12.2mn) has... 2008-08-07

The Federation of Health Professionals of Argentina (Fesprosa) has called for an investigation by the country's pharmaceutical regulator ANMAT into an ongoing phase IIIb clinical... 2008-07-15

With a view to consolidating its operations into key regions, US-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals has divested its Argentine operations to an unnamed local pharmaceutical company for... 2008-06-11

In a move that demonstrates contrasting views of the importance of a local presence in emerging markets to innovative pharmaceutical companies, US-based Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)... 2008-06-11

Argentina is to introduce new rules governing clinical trials from March, lending weight to BMI's view that the country's regulatory environment is on an upward trajectory. The rules... 2008-02-18

A research collaboration has been announced between the UK's PepTcell and Argentina's Gador S.A. that hopes to develop a vaccine against Chagas disease. Under the collaboration, PepTcell... 2007-12-19

Following positive steps by Argentina to improve its regulatory environment, BMI has upgraded the country's Business Environment Rating (BER) for the Approvals Process subcategory... 2007-12-14

Two recent decisions by Argentina's medicines regulator ANMAT that mirror directives issued by the US FDA have served to demonstrate that it is watching the US regulator closely when... 2007-11-14

In what is being seen as a sign that Argentine drugmakers are increasingly looking to international expansion to reduce exposure to their erratic home market, Laboratorios Bagó has... 2007-10-25