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Genzyme has just revealed that it found an impurity in a single vial of its Gaucher's disease drug Cerezyme (imiglucerase) from its fill-finish facility in Waterford, Ireland last December. However, it downplayed the problem, noting that the ...
IMS Health is predicting that emerging markets will expand by $90 billion during 2009-13, contributing 48% of annual pharmaceutical market growth in 2013, a jump from 37% in 2009. This comes at time when many multinational pharma firms are looking ...
Promedior has raised $12 million in a series C financing round. The clinical-stage US biotechnology company is developing therapies to treat inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. Forbion Capital Partners , the only new investor, led the round with ...
Pharming 's shares have fallen by 12% on news that the Dutch firm is planning a share issue. The company will hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) where it will ask shareholders to approve plans to raise more cash. Pharming ended 2009 with ...
The privately owned French biotech firm Bioprojet says that its new compound for excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), pitolisant, has shown good results in several European Phase II trials and has now begun Phase III development. The product, which ...
 
Hospitals' failure to pay pharmaceutical companies and newly announced price cuts are just some of the challenges facing the sector in Greece, Elizabeth Sukkar, Scrip's world editor, discovers. ...
Jordan has a population of 6.35 million and its GDP per capita is $5,000, while its healthcare expenditure represents 10.5% of GDP ($103 per capita in 2006). The Jordanian Food and Drug ...
The pharmaceutical industry has long eyed Turkey as one of its key emerging markets, but recent government action, which could see medicine access delayed by years, is giving it a wake-up call, ...
 
Jeff George took over as head of Sandoz, Novartis's generics business, in late 2008. With a big push in emerging markets, a leadership position in biosimilars and an expanded focus on injectables, he ...
The fundraising that saved Amarin from financial woes last years appear to have given the company a new lease of life. Its interim CEO Dr Declan Doogan told Scrip of his confidence for the company's ...
Developing relationships with medicine regulators in China and India is just one of the challenges facing Emer Cooke, the international face of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Scrip's Elizabeth ...
 
Bulgaria's government is close to implementing major changes to its national healthcare services to tackle its perpetual budget deficit. The changes may involve the closure of up to 150 inefficient ...
Private investments began 2010 in a much more positive fashion than at the start of 2009, but were still down on the strong finish to last year, a Scrip analysis has found. A total of 15 companies ...
The private investment market ended 2009 on a high, with 14 pharmaceutical and biotech companies raising a total of $342.4 million in December, a Scrip analysis found. The amount was 8% higher than ...
 
Background: Producing an alternative to human erythrocytes has been one the most exciting dreams of medicine. Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) derived from purified human or bovine hemoglobin ...
Objective: Free light chains (FLCs) are bi-products of normal immunoglobulin synthesis and are predominately removed from the circulation by the kidneys. This study assessed polyclonal FLCs as a ...
Inflammatory bowel diseases affect > 1 million Europeans, and mostly people at a young age. Although these diseases are still increasing worldwide, especially in children and adolescents, progress in ...
 
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