Industry Developments

The French government has announced a set of new measures aimed at reducing its healthcare budget deficit. Among the measures that will become part of the bill financing social security... 2008-08-07

A UK court decision invalidating a patent for a nucleotide and amino acid sequence of the human genome looks set to raise the bar for protecting intellectual property (IP). In the... 2008-08-05

An increasing foreign presence for Italy's Recordati has helped limit the impact of a stagnant domestic market and post positive pharmaceutical sales results for H108, up by 10.0%... 2008-08-01

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

Bayer Healthcare's oral anticoagulant, Xarelto (rivaroxaban), has been recommended for EU marketing authorisation by the European Medicine Agency (EMEA)'s Committee for Products for... 2008-07-28

Strong growth in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for Sandoz, Novartis' generics division, has made a significant contribution to the generics company's H108 results. In US dollar... 2008-07-24

India is one the leading emerging markets for pharmaceutical companies. Sales of medicines are experiencing double digit growth each year, low labour costs makes it a premier manufacturing... 2008-07-24

Germany's drug discount contracts - which enforce pharmacists to dispense drugs for which health insurers have arranged price reductions with pharmaceutical companies - appear to... 2008-07-21

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

Belgium's drug industry association, pharma.be, has defended the price of medicines in the country following local reports suggesting the market is over-priced. Pharma.be also claims... 2008-07-15