United Kingdom

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

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

UK pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has decided to move production of anti-depressant drug Seroxat/Paxil (paroxetine) to Romania as part of an ongoing effort to improve operational... 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

New GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) CEO Andrew Witty has reaffirmed the company's commitment to developing innovative therapies, and dispelled rumours that a foray into the generics industry... 2008-07-08