http://marketpublishers.com/lists/news_67.html Drugs & Biotechnology news en-us 2008-12-02 13:33:16 GMT 2008-12-02 13:33:16 GMT http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3745/news.html Global pharmaceutical sales growth is expected to hold steady in 2009 with anemic growth of 1 percent to 2 percent seen in the United States as generic competition, fewer new drug launches and an economic slowdown take a toll, according to an... 29.10.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3731/news.html Humana Inc., the second-biggest provider of U.S.-funded health insurance, reported a 39 percent decrease in quarterly profit on rising costs in its drug plans for the elderly and investments in financial companies. Third-quarter net income... 27.10.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3686/news.html Bayer AG said it has won European approval for Qlaira, a contraceptive pill which it expects to generate sales of up to 500 million euros ($683.1 million) per year. Bayer is also developing Qlaira for the treatment of an excessive menstrual... 16.10.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3584/news.html The race to develop and supply the government with anthrax-fighting drugs just got more heated. Two rival biotechs -- Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and PharmAthene of Annapolis -- announced yesterday that they received separate federal... 29.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3453/news.html It's big business, but it may not have the impact that drug companies hope and that medical ethicists have long worried about. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising has only a modest effect on the sale of drugs, according to research released... 02.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3309/news.html Australian scientists have identified a potential treatment to combat malaria by pinpointing the process that helps the disease hijack red blood cells, reported The BBC. They have found the key to an adhesive that stops the parasite being... 14.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3291/news.html Eli Lilly & Co., the first company to market insulin, said it would buy SGX Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker of experimental cancer drugs, for $64 million in cash, reported The Bloomberg. Lilly will pay $3 a share for San Diego-based SGX,... 09.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3283/news.html Controlling blood pressure from middle-age onwards may dramatically reduce the chances of developing dementia, researchers have said, reported The BBC. Two studies support a link between high blood pressure and dementia risk - with one by... 08.07.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3249/news.html Picking up an infection is the public's main concern about hospital care, a UK-wide BBC poll shows, reported The BBC. Of the 1,040 people quizzed, 40% listed the risk of potentially deadly infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile... 30.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3243/news.html The Aids epidemic in some countries is so severe that it should be classified as a disaster, the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) has warned, reported The BBC. The crisis fits the UN definition of a disaster as an event beyond the scope of... 27.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3210/news.html Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body, reported The BBC. The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment. US... 19.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3203/news.html A third of the population have genes that could help them in the fight against heart disease, say scientists, reported The BBC. A study of 147,000 patients suggests that certain types of the CETP gene might increase the levels of so-called... 18.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3184/news.html Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, said its Azilect medicine helped slow the progression of Parkinson's disease in the final phase of clinical tests, reported The Bloomberg. Azilect, which Teva... 16.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3144/news.html A Nobel Prize-winning scientist says it could be tougher than first thought to harness the healing power of stem cells in medicine, reported The BBC. It had been hoped a single "master" cell could potentially be used to repair all... 09.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3119/news.html Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs, reported The BBC. A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to... 03.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3100/news.html The number of adults prescribed cholesterol-busting statin drugs in England and Wales is set to soar under new national guidelines, reported The BBC. GPs are being asked to trawl through patient records to pick out "high-risk"... 28.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3078/news.html Scientists may be one step closer to producing a specific targeted vaccine for killing cancer cells, reported The BBC. UK researchers have pinpointed a protein on immune cells which they hope will help them harness the body's defences to... 27.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3087/news.html People with dementia more than tripled their risk of death or hospitalization within a month of taking antipsychotic drugs to silence their agitation, according to a study, reported The Bloomberg. Those taking a class of antipsychotic drugs... 26.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3063/news.html Schools and universities may soon need to test students sitting exams for brain improving drugs, experts say, reported The BBC. The Academy of Medical Sciences said drugs for diseases such as Alzheimer's were being used by healthy people to... 22.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3052/news.html First-born babies may be programmed in the womb to have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, research suggests, reported The BBC. A University of South Carolina led team carried out tests on more than 1,200 newborns from the Isle of Wight.... 21.05.2008