France

It was a tough year in 2006 for France's leading drugmakers, as government cost-cutting measures bit deeply into revenues. Although, the drug market expanded by 4%, this is lower... 2007-03-06

French medicine expenditure rose by 4% in 2006, according to recently released data from national sickness insurance fund (CNAM), despite the best efforts of the authorities to curb... 2007-03-02

France's biotech sector is reported to be wary about a victory for Segolene Royal in the presidential elections in May, with some predicting a 'flight of capital' if the Socialist... 2007-02-16

French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis is understood to be in talks with US pharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) over a possible merger, according to unnamed sources reported... 2007-01-30

French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis has frozen investment at its Hoesht facility in Germany after the country's healthcare committee, the GBA, refused to reimburse its blockbuster... 2007-01-29

France is to begin reimbursing Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT) for the first time as the country takes an increasingly hard-line stance again tobacco. Under the new scheme, French... 2007-01-22

The French drug industry association, LEEM , has launched a scathing attack on the government's policies towards the pharmaceutical sector. In a seven-point manifesto, the body claims... 2007-01-15

Following a year of furious M&A activity, France's Sanofi-Aventis has revealed that it is interested buying a biotechnology firm with "three or four products" that is in the mould... 2006-12-22

French skincare treatments and cosmetics maker Pierre Fabre has bought a 70% stake in mid-sized Brazilian pharmaceutical maker Darrow Laboratorios. The purchase of the Areal-based... 2006-12-13

France is to allow the sale of five pharmaceutical products that were originally put on the market elsewhere in Europe after it implemented a European directive on free circulation... 2006-12-11