NEW YORK, June 17- ViroPharma Inc, a drug maker specializing in rare diseases, is attracting preliminary acquisition interest from several pharmaceutical companies, according to three people familiar with the matter.
NEW YORK, June 17- ViroPharma Inc is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter.
NEW YORK-- French drugmaker Sanofi said Monday the Food and Drug Administration approved a new version of its flu vaccine Fluzone that is designed to prevent four types of the virus.
June 10- French drugmaker Sanofi SA said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved its four-strain influenza vaccine, which is meant to provide better protection from infection than traditional three-strain flu vaccines.
LONDON, June 10- Bank of America Merrill Lynch scooped the prize as top pan-European equity brokerage at the annual Thomson Reuters Extel Awards on Monday, ending UBS's 12- year winning streak. Voters picked Bank of America Merrill Lynch as leading pan-European broker in equity and equity-linked research, relegating Swiss-based UBS to second place.
LONDON, June 10- One of the world's longest running drug development sagas may draw to a close this month as French firm Sanofi hopes for a European green light for its new multiple sclerosis medicine Lemtrada.
DUBLIN, June 7- Royalty Pharma raised its hostile bid for Irish drug firm Elan to a potential $8 billion on Friday, after just 7.5 percent of the target company's shareholders accepted its previous offer.
*Key data on new Sanofi products at ADA meeting this month. FRANKFURT, June 7- In a leafy suburb of Frankfurt, a state-of-the-art plant churns out up to 1 million insulin pens every day in French drugmaker Sanofi's drive to keep its no. 2 spot in the $43 billion- a-year diabetes market.
HERZLIYA, Israel, June 6- Inspired by its success in high-tech electronics and software, Israel is hoping to pull off the same trick in life sciences. High-tech has been one of Israel's main growth engines and companies such as Intel Inc, IBM and Google Inc have major R&D centres in the country.
*Sanofi sags after dropping 2 late-stage drugs. PARIS, June 3- European shares dropped early on Monday, with indexes testing technical support levels, mirroring a sell-off in U.S. stocks and after poor Chinese manufacturing data.
PARIS, June 3- European shares dropped early on Monday, with a key index hitting a one-month low, mirroring a sell-off in U.S. stocks and after poor Chinese manufacturing data.
May 30- Biogen Idec Inc expects a delay in the European launch of its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera as the drugmaker works to secure exclusive data that could potentially protect its treatment from generic competition for a longer period.
CHICAGO/ LOS ANGELES, May 29- When Smithfield Foods Inc. quietly weaned the first of its pigs off the controversial feed additive ractopamine last year, it may have helped open the door for a Chinese counterpart to acquire the world's largest hog producer.
CHICAGO, May 23- Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.
*FDA panel says suvorexant safe, effective at lower doses. On Monday, the FDA's internal reviewers published a report expressing concern about suvorexant's potential to cause next-day sleepiness and impaired driving.
NEW YORK, May 22- Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipeline of experimental cancer treatments that it aims to deliver at a fraction of the cost spent by larger rivals. Medicare system contending with new cancer treatments that can exceed $100,000 per patient.
May 21- A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said on Tuesday.
May 21- A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said on Tuesday.
May 20- Merck& Co's experimental insomnia drug suvorexant appears generally effective, according to reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but they questioned the company's proposed dosing levels.
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