Interesting news… Forbes
Swiss-based Roche Holding realizes there is little it can do to provoke Genentech into accepting its takeover offer, but that doesn’t mean the pharmaceutical company is going to stop trying to persuade the biotech’s shareholders.
Roche Holding announced Friday that it would raise its hostile takeover bid for the California-based biotech to $93.00 per [...]
Very interesting. Ethical? That’s a different issue… Daily Mail UK
A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists.
The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and those whose lives are plagued by hurtful recurrent memories.
But British experts said the breakthrough raises disturbing ethical questions about what makes us human.
They [...]
Common sense prevails… WSJ
GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world’s second-biggest drug maker by sales, plans to cut prices in the world’s poorest countries and invest 20% of its profit from those markets into building health clinics and other infrastructure.
In a speech at Harvard Medical School on Friday, Glaxo Chief Executive Andrew Witty also proposed that drug companies, [...]
How people can engage in the business of fake drug distribution is beyond me… ToI
NEW DELHI: Four years after the drug for erectile dysfunction, Viagra, was launched in India, the Haryana Police claimed to have seized on Sunday more than 200 kg of fake drugs from a unit in Udyog Vihar in Haryana. The drug [...]
Interesting article about Abbott Labs, seems they have a good thing, let’s see if they can keep it going… Barrons
IT LOOKS AS IF ABBOTT LABORATORIES HAS discovered the secret of healthy living. While most of its rivals are flat on their backs, the pharmaceutical giant has been cranking out promising new products, dodging competition from [...]