Pharmaceutical
May 16, 2011
PRNewswire reports that Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging that Lilly
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May 5, 2011
The Department of Justice said that multinational drugmaker Merck Serono SA has agreed to pay $44.3 million to settle allegations that it illegally promoted one of its drugs using kickbacks
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May 4, 2011
Bloomberg reports that Pfizer Chief Executive Officer Ian Read is reviewing the possible sale or spinoff of four divisions with $18.3 billion in annual revenue, led by the company’s third-biggest
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May 2, 2011
According to Bloomberg, Allergan Inc. was ordered by a Virginia jury to pay $212 million to a 67-year-old man who said he got permanent brain damage after being injected with
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April 28, 2011
According to Reuters, the Securities and Exchange Commission is probing former Berkshire Hathaway executive David Sokol, who has been under scrutiny for his trading in Lubrizol, a person familiar with
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April 27, 2011
Bloomberg reports that Abbott Laboratories is being sued on claims that its top-selling drug Humira caused permanent nerve damage in the feet of a Montana woman who took it for
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April 25, 2011
According to the Associated Press, Pfizer Inc., confirmed that one patient who was taking its drug candidate tofacitinib, a pill designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, died during a recent clinical
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April 21, 2011
Biotechnology company Dynavax Technologies Corp., will receive a $6 million milestone payment from partner GlaxoSmithKline after it started a study on a potential lupus drug, according to the Associated Press.
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April 14, 2011
The Associated Press reports that an Ivy League-trained physician who became a health care hedge fund portfolio manager surrendered to face charges he evaded $30 million in losses for his
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April 13, 2011
According to PRNewswire, Monsanto Company announced a 5-year, $300 million public debt offering. Notes will be issued at 99.787 percent and bear interest at 2.75 percent, resulting in a yield
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