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Biopharmaceutical company Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. said Friday that Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG has reconsidered its development of two possible Alzheimer's disease treatments it licensed under a 2002 agreement.
Lupin Laboratories Ltd and Torrent Pharmaceuticals have put in separate bids for the Polish government's 47.5 pct stake in drug major Jelfa Pharmaceutical, Business Standard reported.
Dutch biotechnology company Crucell N.V. (Euronext:CRXL) (Nasdaq:CRXL) announced today that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Naval Medical Research Center of the US Navy to construct AdVac(R)-based vaccines against anthrax and plague and test them in non-human primates.
Dyax Corp., whose proprietary technology is used in drug discovery, on Thursday said it is licensing certain technologies and patent rights to Germany-based pharmaceutical firm Merck KGaA.
Thursday morning, GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK -- news -- people ) exercised its right to co-develop and co-promote HGS-ETR1, a cancer drug developed by Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI -- news -- people) that is being developed to treat non-Hodgkins lymphoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and colorectal cancer.
Close on the heels of the Canadian government warning against the use of Indian herbal remedies, Britain's healthcare agency has said herbal remedies available in the country may contain dangerous levels of heavy metals.
Zimbabwe's deputy health minister, Edwin Muguti, has called for the creation of regional pharmaceutical companies in Africa to end the continent's dependence on Western drugmakers.