United Kingdom

A pan-European healthcare system has taken a step closer to reality, after the EU's Health Commissioner revealed that he supports the right of patients to travel for treatment across... 2006-09-05

UK firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has entered into a drug discovery collaboration with US biotech company ChemoCentryx in the field of chemokines that could net ChemoCentryx up to a staggering... 2006-08-25

The UK pharmaceutical cost-effectiveness regulator - NICE - has deemed that two breakthrough colon cancer drugs are too expensive despite being safe, highly effective, easier to tolerate... 2006-08-22

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is not seeing value for money from the extra billions of pounds that it has been given, with bureaucracy primarily to blame, according to a... 2006-08-17

Ensuring greater future revenues and causing its share price to increase, Shire Pharmaceuticals - the UK's third largest drugmaker - has settled its dispute with US-based Barr Pharmaceuticals... 2006-08-16

Against the European trend, the value added calculation of the UK's pharmaceutical industry fell slightly last year after healthy growth the previous year, according to a report by... 2006-08-08

In addition to improving the health of the people of Scotland, the pharmaceutical industry is a major contributor to the country's economy, according to a report commissioned by the... 2006-08-03

The merger between UK health retailer Boots and pharmacy wholesaler Alliance UniChem has been completed, with the combined entity - Alliance Boots - becoming Europe's largest pharmacy.... 2006-08-01

Designed to boost the clinical trial industry in Wales, the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru has been established to increase quality, quantity and efficacy of clinical studies... 2006-07-20

The UK subsidiary of Japanese firm Eisai, which markets the Alzheimer disease therapeutic Aricept (donepezil), has announced its referral of the Information Commissioner to the Parliamentary... 2006-07-14