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  • Emerging markets, and in particular, Latin America will be the drivers for continued growth, Swiss drug maker Roche told CNBC, even as the company faces price pressures elsewhere.

  • Eli Lilly will be "very challenged" by the loss of exclusivity on several blockbuster drugs, CEO John Lechleiter told CNBC on Tuesday, but added the company can manage its growth in response.

  • Research shows how investigators tracing the activities of people who allegedly worked with Julio Chaparro, who pleaded guilty to a money-laundering conspiracy count in May, were able to expose large-scale money laundering at one of the world's biggest banks.

  • As Christmas overeating gives way to under-fulfilled new year diets, the pharmaceutical industry's appetite has been whetted for a fresh surge in business.

  • AMERICAS: Michael Williams+ 1 646 223 5462. ASIA: Bill Tarrant+ 65 6870 3821. A Reuters review of confidential investigative documents and interviews with sources in Europe and the United States-- including the first with Jihad Jane herself-- reveals a far less menacing and, in some ways, more preposterous undertaking than what the U.S. government asserted.

  • Nov 16- A federal grand jury in Boston is investigating Millennium Laboratories of San Diego, a fast-growing private company selling urine drug testing services to pain clinics across the United States.

  • Nov 16- A federal grand jury in Boston is investigating Millenium Laboratories of San Diego, a fast-growing private company selling urine drug testing services to pain clinics across the United States.

  • Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer, explains to CNBC that while Bayer has felt increased pressure on drug pricing from governments, its success in research and development has the company positioned for success.

  • Egypt begins its first round of presidential elections.

    Egyptian police have seized a 15 ton truckload of marijuana, the biggest drug haul in the country's history, which was being smuggled west out of the Sinai Peninsula toward the Nile Valley.

  • Discounts up to 50 percent discount on premium drugs have been passed on to Medicare beneficiaries.

  • Mexican marines present to the press the alleged member of Zetas drug cartel Eric Jovan Lozano Diaz (C), aka 'Cucho', and some money seized during his arrestation in Mexico city, on June 15, 2012.

    In the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge  —  the result of a turf war between drug cartels. It exposed the Mexican government’s inability to keep the country’s violence level low enough not to scare away tourists and investors.

  • Scientists at the University of Southern California say they've detected a link between recreational marijuana use and a greater chance among males in their early teens through their mid-30s of contracting a particularly dangerous form of testicular cancer. NBC News reports.

  • A 74-year old farmer in a small town in southern Germany who had intended to grow sunflowers says he planted more than 1,000 cannabis shrubs by mistake.

  • Depending on what your position is on the medicinal uses of marijuana, Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D. wrote in a 1997 article for the The New England Journal of Medicine that physicians who prohibit prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane.Thousands of suffering patients with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases claim that marijuana provides them relief from devastating symptoms such as intractable nausea, vomiting, and pain by smoking marijuana.We asked Hi

    Thousands of patients claim marijuana provides them relief from devastating symptoms. We asked High Times Cultivation Editor Danny Danko to put a cost on this relief.

  • Dr. Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals president/CEO, discusses the strategies behind his company's products, and why people using the same drug are switching to his company versus another.