Canada

Health Canada has approved domestic company Merck Frosst's RotaTeq, making it the first vaccine available in Canada for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants, ahead... 2006-08-24

Canadian contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Patheon has reported continued problems at manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico. The company purchased local firm MOVA for US$350mn... 2006-08-17

French firm Sanofi-Aventis is heading for an uncertain financial future as its two best-selling drugs face generic competition in the US for the first time.

To the annoyance of consumers and the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA), the prices of generic medicines were higher in Canada than 11 comparator countries in 2005,... 2006-07-20

Boosting the country's oncology drug market and reducing cancer's burden to society, Health Canada has approved Merck Frosst's Gardasil human papillomarvirus vaccine for the prevention... 2006-07-19

Unveiled two years ago as part of the nation's 10-year plan to strengthen healthcare, Canada's long-awaited National Pharmaceuticals Strategy (NPS) is progressing well but may be... 2006-07-12

Canada is attempting to increase biomedical R&D activities in an effort to boost its economy by creating more jobs and increasing its output of innovative pharmaceuticals. However,... 2006-06-06

Canadian Firm Labopharm has granted Belgium distribution rights covering its once-daily formulation of the painkiller tramadol to German company Grunenthal. Labopharma will supply... 2006-05-12

These positive prospects aside, the expansion of Canada's generics market is likely to meet resistance. In 2006, US pharmaceutical companies again lobbied their government to make... 2006-05-09

With reforms underway and the potential for European Union (EU) membership becoming a reality, South East Europe has been identified as an area of interest to Canadian healthcare... 2006-05-04