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BioPharma News for the Day

Posted by scienceinvestor on Wednesday, September 30th 2009     

Multiple Sclerosis
Novartis AG (NVS) unveiled positive late stage test results on its experimental Multiple Sclerosis drug which it plans to file for FDA approval by the end of the year. Citi upgraded their recommendation for Novartis shares to buy subsequent to this news. The other MS drug makers Biogen, Elan, Teva Pharma, and Genzyme were [...]

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Pfizer and Glaxo combine efforts in search for HIV medicine

Posted by scienceinvestor on Friday, May 1st 2009     

Last week on April 16 th the two pharma giants GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer anounced to collaborate in the field of HIV research. The joint venture will pool resources to develop and market HIV treatments and to create a new company still to be named (nature) based in the UK. This spin off will lead to a [...]

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Swine Flu Outbreak

Posted by scienceinvestor on Saturday, April 25th 2009     

Recently a friend of mine commented that the bird flu seems to have disappeared since he hasn’t heard about it in the news lately. I tried to explain to him that it may not be as prominently covered by the media as the financial crisis, but it has definitely not disappeared. The swine flu outbreak [...]

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