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...Industry lobby group Phrma, which has funded a torrent of television adverts urging US lawmakers to reject the reforms, issued a last-ditch plea this week calling on them to stop the “dangerous bill”....
...Within the commission Thierry Breton, the French commissioner for the EU’s internal market, has championed the push for European “strategic autonomy” in industries from pharmaceuticals and semiconductors...
...He too will work with the army, whose vaccine commander has urged a system of “identify, analyse, execute” — which means not unleashing a torrent of obfuscating “guidance” on the frontline....
...educated specialist in systems management, but one of many technical experts at biotech group Solgent who have been redeployed to jobs on the assembly line as virus test kit makers struggle to satisfy a torrent...
...If everything you knew about vaccines came from social media, you could be forgiven for thinking global immunisation rates are collapsing under a torrent of misinformation from anti-vaccine activists sowing...
...But it caused a torrent of similar claims across the US and triggered a steep fall in Bayer’s share price....
...Torrent Pharma also withdrew. “This is a business that has gone sideways and the buyers must believe in turning the business around,” said a person with direct knowledge of the auction....
...The grants will help to build the infrastructure required to process the torrents of disparate data pouring out of Alzheimer’s labs in the private and public sectors around the world....
...Chaired by Marijn Dekkers, former CEO of Germany’s Bayer pharmaceutical group, the board dismissed the offer as too low and making no strategic sense....
...And in the developed world, a handful of cases of Ebola unleashed a torrent of rumours and conflicting advice....
...The latest figures come amid a torrent of rumours surrounding increasing differences between Serge Weinberg, Sanofi chairman, and Chris Viehbacher, chief executive, even though Sanofi’s share price has doubled...
...Novartis has yielded to a torrent of political and shareholder criticism by withdrawing its controversial plan to pay the outgoing chairman of the Swiss pharmaceutical group a “golden gag” of $78m for a...
...Last month, AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical company, raised $2bn in its first US bond issue in five years....
...There has also been a torrent of new data to keep up with....
...A district court in New Jersey ruled that a group of generic pharmaceutical companies, including Mylan of the US and India’s Torrent, had infringed AstraZeneca’s patent for the longer-lasting formula of...
...Tax credits for favoured sectors, including pharmaceuticals, aerospace and the creative industries, will not reverse the secular decline in manufacturing....
...Ion Torrent has made a DNA-sequencing system that translates chemical signals into digital information....
...Until now, the torrent of data flooding our world is a phenomenon that probably only excited a few data geeks....
...Torrent Pharmaceuticals will be paid an undisclosed amount to provide supplies and license the marketing rights to its medicines in a number of developing countries, with the drugs branded with AstraZeneca...
...Greater Pacific, established two years ago by Ketan Patel, Joe Sealy and Francis Crispino, is bidding jointly with Torrent Pharmaceuticals, of India....
...This follows reports in the Times of India earlier this week, saying Ahmedabad-based Torrent Pharmaceuticals had also teamed up with unnamed private equity investors to launch a bid....
...That is, the cost of insuring against default is almost the same for industrial or high-tech companies as it is for pharmaceutical firms or utilities....
...Basel, Europe’s pharmaceutical capital, a mishmash of Swiss, French and German influences, in the dead of winter, seemed a long shot....
...Pharmaceuticals rose 20 per cent after torrents of bad news held the sector back in 2004. As the graph below shows, the rest of the stock market has been drifting sideways since February....
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