United Kingdom

'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

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

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

In another indication that the UK's Alliance Boots is looking to emerging markets to expand its pharmaceutical wholesale business, the company has purchased a 25% stake in Brazil's... 2008-08-06

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

US-based Emergent Biosolutions has announced a joint venture with the University of Oxford for the development of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium... 2008-07-29

The UK's GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has entered into an agreement with South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare, which it hopes will accelerate its sales in emerging markets. BMI believes that... 2008-07-24

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