Topic: European Union
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing imports of food derived from the offspring of clones from the United States and elsewhere.The report from the European ...
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Introduction Antihormonal cancer therapies are a class of drugs used predominantly in the treatment of breast cancer and prostate cancer. The high incidence of these tumor types translates into a significant commercial potential for drug developers. Collectively, the antihormonal therapy cancer brands ...
Summary Box: Drugmakers post higher Q2 results, despite health reform, EU economic pressuresHEALTHY SIGNS: Three of the Top 20 drugmakers — Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Roche Holding AG and Eli Lilly and Co. — all post better second-quarter profit as their sales increase.UNDER ...
Cutting pharmaceutical prices will severely reduce the number of new medications making it to market, according to a groundbreaking independent study from ESMT Competition Analysis (ESMT CA). The model draws conclusions from the simulated actions of the pharmaceutical company, taking account of ...
The U.S. Justice Department and Commonwealth of Virginia met in court yesterday in a case challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate to purchase insurance that is part of the health-overhaul bill, the New York Times reports. The hearing yesterday dealt with ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union court backed an EU antitrust decision against Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca Thursday, lending weight to a regulatory crackdown on firms blocking cheaper drugs coming to market.Antitrust lawyers said the ruling set a firm legal precedent for the ...
Individual EU nations will be free to ban genetically modified crops, even if they are deemed safe and approved, under rule changes being drawn up by Brussels to unblock the clearance process.EU Health Commissioner John Dalli, in charge of the emotive dossier, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Drug companies have lost a legal battle against schemes promoted by Britain's state health service that encourage doctors to prescribe cheaper medicines.The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), representing dozens of pharmaceutical firms, argued that National Health Service ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's food safety agency has used partial evidence to approve genetically modified crops, including a GM potato developed by BASF, and should overhaul its methods, a French environment minister said.France has previously invoked environmental risks to suspend cultivation of ...
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