United Kingdom

'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

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

The board of UK vaccine specialist Acambis has unanimously recommended a GBP276mn (US$547mn) takeover bid from French firm Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines arm of French pharmaceutical... 2008-07-30

Roche has been suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) for a minimum of six months after the company was found to have seriously breached the... 2008-07-16

Swiss biopharmaceuticals firm Actelion has secured a lucrative licensing deal with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for its insomnia candidate almorexant. In return for worldwide marketing rights... 2008-07-15

GlaxoSmithKline's cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix has been approved for reimbursement by France's state-funded health insurance system, reversing an earlier decision by the French... 2008-07-10

Following a negative appraisal from the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Roche is to lower the price of its non-small cell lung cancer treatment... 2008-07-09