Industry Developments

The European Commission (EC) has made a formal request that Germany and Portugal review their laws on the ownership of pharmacies. The requests - which take the form of Reasoned Opinions... 2008-09-26

'A pharmaceuticals company is abusing its dominant position if it refuses to meet ordinary orders by wholesalers in order to prevent parallel exports.' This was the final verdict... 2008-09-18

Independent thinktank Reform has recommended the introduction of an insurance-based healthcare system in the UK in order to improve healthcare levels and allow the system to compete... 2008-09-15

Biotechnology firm Cytos is to link up with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in the development of vaccines for a number of human diseases, the Swiss firm announced on August 15 2008.... 2008-08-21

Adherence to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines looks likely to increase substantially over the next few years, after Care Quality Commission... 2008-08-20

'On their knees thanking their lucky stars' was the way former Labour social security minister Frank Field described how a number of generic drug companies should be feeling, following... 2008-08-14

Sales from outside Western Europe continued to drive French firm Ipsen's growth in H108. Underlying sales -calculated at a constant exchange rate and excluding sales for Ginkor Fort... 2008-08-13

Germany's largest health insurance fund Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) has initiated the first Europe-wide tenders for contracts to supply generic drugs, in an effort to spark... 2008-08-12

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) plans to screen parallel imports as part of changes to the body's sampling and testing programme for centrally authorised medicinal products (CAPs).... 2008-08-11

Once again the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has hit the headlines in the UK, after preliminary guidance for kidney cancer treatment found that four... 2008-08-11