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GSK and Daiichi Sankyo vaccines joint venture to become largest vaccines company in Japan
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it has signed an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. to form a Joint Venture (J...
FDA approves first four-strain flu vaccine
AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its biologics arm, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Duke Translational Medicine Institute form strategic relationship
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI) announced the formation of a st...
Sanofi and Astellas to dissolve sanofi-aventis Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Inc.
Sanofi and Astellas Pharma Inc. announced that the two companies agreed to dissolve sanofi-aventis Yamanouchi Pharmaceut...
Pfizer acquires Alacer Corp., a leading vitamin supplements company
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced the acquisition of privately-held Alacer Corp., the maker and distributor of Emergen-C ...
FDA announces safety changes in labeling for some cholesterol-lowering drugs
Important safety changes to the labeling for some widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are being anno...
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur create four prestigious awards
Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and the Institut Pasteur announced the creation of the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Awar...
A giant little step in cancer treatment opening up new therapeutic horizons
The data, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, demonstrate that by combining two drugs that had already been u...
Merck announces efficiency program across all businesses and regions
Merck's Executive Board presented initial plans for an efficiency program spanning all businesses and regions to the Sup...
Boehringer Ingelheim and Xencor enter a collaboration agreement
Xencor, Inc., a company using its proprietary Protein Design Automation® (PDA) platform technology to engineer next-gene...
