Industry Developments

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

Sales from outside Western Europe continued to drive French firm Ipsen's growth in H108. Underlying sales -calculated at a constant exchange rate and excluding sales for Ginkor Fort... 2008-08-13

Germany's largest health insurance fund Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) has initiated the first Europe-wide tenders for contracts to supply generic drugs, in an effort to spark... 2008-08-12

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) plans to screen parallel imports as part of changes to the body's sampling and testing programme for centrally authorised medicinal products (CAPs).... 2008-08-11

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 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