
Your search for "Pharmaceutical" produced 18 items.
| 1. Drug firms targeted in antitrust raids | December 3, 2010 |
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Companies suspected of abusing market position. The European Commission has carried out raids on several pharmaceutical companies that it suspects worked together to delay... | |
| 2. Living dangerously on drugs | May 14, 2009 |
The boss of drugs giant Bayer is concerned about the future in Europe. It is a dangerous time for pharmaceutical companies, according to Arthur Higgins, chairman of the... |
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| 3. Battle looming over medicine information | November 20, 2008 |
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Consumer groups fear EU will clear way for US-style advertising. The current rules on information that pharmaceutical companies can give to patients were drawn up in 2001,... | |
| 4. A stirred pharma industry fears the big shake-up | November 20, 2008 |
A Commission probe into trade-distorting practices in the pharmaceutical industry has unsettled an already shaken industry. On a January morning this year, European... |
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| 5. Under threat from a generic attack | November 20, 2008 |
It might be worth billions of euros, but the European pharmaceutical industry is in trouble. The European pharmaceutical industry is worth billions of euros, spends an... |
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| 6. Fake medicines regulation in dispute | November 20, 2008 |
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Counterfeiting is mushrooming in Europe, prompting calls for unified system of safety features, such as barcodes. The dark side of the global pharmaceutical business is a... | |
| 7. Glaxo case remains open | September 16, 2008 |
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Greek courts ordered to determine whether GlaxoSmithKline was justified in restricting sales to wholesalers who had re-exported its drugs.
Pharmaceutical companies can... | |
| 8. Promoting good health with information or marketing? | December 20, 2007 |
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Direct advertising to patients is still controversial in Europe, writes Jennifer Rankin. The promise of relief from pain and anxiety delivered by people with glossy hair and... | |
| 9. Pharmaceutical companies eye patent extension for child drugs | July 20, 2005 |
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Pharmaceutical companies that develop paediatric versions of their drugs could win a six-month patent extension, under a draft law approved by MEPs in the European... | |
| 10. Kind Mandy quick to soothe Chinese tensions | May 26, 2005 |
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Western pharmaceutical companies can take heart from the performance of Peter Mandelson, the European Commissioner for trade, when he met Gao Huchen this week. The Chinese... | |
| 11. Drug firms and customers need healthy dialogue | June 12, 2003 |
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Patients have a right to know. THE EU institutions have for some time grappled with rules governing ways in which pharmaceutical companies communicate with their customers. | |
| 12. Pharmaceuticals special report: Price rules patently unfair to the poor | October 25, 2001 |
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EVERYONE in Europe has friends and relatives who would not be with us, or who would have lived a shorter life, were it not for the medical and now biotechnological... | |
| 13. Access to drugs | March 29, 2001 |
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From Steve Rankin David Earnshaw should know better ('Drugs firms must bear their social responsibilities', Viewpoint, 22-28 March). | |
| 14. Mergers | March 2, 2000 |
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British Telecommunications/Esat British Telecommunications Plc notified the Commission on 14 February of plans to buy data, Internet and voice-services company Esat Telecom... | |
| 15. Long-running battle over 'life patent' law revived by Dutch legal challhenge | November 26, 1998 |
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THE political battle over the European Commission's life patents directive captured the public imagination as a struggle between rapacious multinationals laying claim to the... | |
| 16. Generics sector hampered by patent laws | June 27, 1996 |
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MOST people would probably be none the wiser if their doctor told them they were about to be prescribed Diazepam. Such ignorance is a source of constant frustration to a... | |
| 17. Drugs price harmony elusive | March 28, 1996 |
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EUROPEAN pharmaceutical companies have long urged the creation of a level playing-field for drugs pricing across the EU if they are to sink the necessary cash into developing... | |
| 18. The right to know? Should information to patients be restricted | |
A European Voice health check debate
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