February 4, 2012
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Abbott announced today that it has completed its $123 million acquisition of STARLIMS Technologies Ltd., a leader in laboratory information management systems. The acquisition provides Abbott with leading products and expertise to build its position in laboratory informatics, an emerging and rapidly growing field focused on helping to manage the increasing amount of data generated in [...]
A jury in a New Jersey state court ruled in favor of AstraZeneca by rejecting a Louisiana plaintiff’s claims that Seroquel caused alleged injuries. AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical business with global revenues of $32.8 billion in 2009, had Seroquel first approved in the US in 1997 and is currently approved for depressive episodes in bipolar [...]
Washington, DC – In response to a request from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for the intravenous (IV) investigational antiviral drug Peramivir, to be used in certain adult and pediatric patients with confirmed or suspected 2009 H1N1 influenza infection who are [...]
EAST HANOVER, N.J., – The Alabama Supreme Court today overturned a jury verdict against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), and directed entry of judgment in favor of NPC. The State of Alabama had claimed prices provided by NPC to reporting services resulted in overpayment to pharmacists and doctors in the Alabama State Medicaid system, and a [...]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq:INHX) announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Inhibitex for
Novartis Consumer Health Inc. (NCH) informed customers, that it is voluntarily recalling all lots of select bottle packaging configurations from retailers of Excedrin® and NoDoz® products with expiry
This past June in a tiny pharmacy in the sleepy suburban town of Medford, New York, a deranged gunman high on prescription drugs executed four innocent victims in cold blood. “In all of my law … [Read More...]
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