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First implantation of resorbable antibacterial envelope announcedThe first ever implantation of a fully resorbable antibacterial envelope has taken place to help ensure surgery patients are at a lower risk of infection. According to TYRX, the AIGISRx R antibacteri2013/4/22
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Hated German price formula to be applied to Pradaxa, Prolia, other drugsDrugmakers, livid with German pricing gatekeepers for turning down so many new drugs, now face a strategy that is sure to ratchet up their anger to the boiling point. The agency has started a review2013/4/22
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Hikma decides injectables drug business a prize to hold ontoWhen Mylan agreed to pay $1.6 billion to nab Strides Arcolab's sterile injectables drug business, the competitors it bested were thought to be sniffing around elsewhere for a similar deal. Within d2013/4/19
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Yin Li meets Deputy Director General of New Zealand Ministry for Primary IndustriesOn the afternoon of April 16, 2013, Yin Li met with Ms. Carole Barnao, Deputy Director General of New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, and her entourage. Both sides introduced the main respons2013/4/19
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Supreme Court exposes GlaxoSmithKline to Humana's Avandia-spending claimsThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal from GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) in a fight over Humana's spending on the company's disgraced diabetes drug Avandia. The ruling not only opens GSK t2013/4/17
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FDA puts halt to generic OxyContinFor months FDA regulators have been wrestling with the dangers of allowing a flood of cheap, generic versions of the highly addictive OxyContin on the market versus the benefit of consumers with pa2013/4/17
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AbbVie to hack hundreds of reps from cardiovascular sales ranksAbbVie ($ABBV) has a new distinction. It may be the youngest pharma company ever to lay off hundreds of salespeople. Bloomberg reports that the drugmaker, spun off by Abbott Laboratories ($ABT) as2013/4/16
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CFDA Commissioner Zhang Yong meets the delegation of Swedish Ministry of Health and Social AffairsOn the morning of April 16, 2013, Zhang Yong, Commissioner of China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), met with the delegation led by Mr. Goran Hagglund, the Swedish Minister for Health and Social2013/4/16
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2013 PhexTour (Pharma Excipients Technical Application National Tour Seminar) 2nd station--Xian was successfully concluded2013 PhexTour (Pharma Excipients Technical Application National Tour Seminar) 2nd station--Xian , was successfully concluded on 11 April at Xian Enlite Hotel. Around 100 technical persons from 26 pha2013/4/15
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Roche CEO says no need to buy out Japanese subsidiary ChugaiWhen it comes to its investment in Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical, Roche CEO Severin Schwan says he likes things just the way they are. "We don't see changes in the structural set-up ... currency fluct2013/4/15