Following last month's acquisition of Philadelphia-based URL Pharma Inc., Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical has struck another deal, this time in Brazil. Takeda's overseas acquisitions now total almost $15 billion in the last two years, ...
PIMCO Total Return ETF topped the list in late trading for Buying on Weakness , which tracks stocks that fell in price but had the largest inflow of money. See the full list .
By Corrie Driebusch and Nathalie Tadena Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday's session are Frontline Ltd. (FRO), VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) and Talbots Inc. (TLB).
BANGALORE, India—India's government is facing stiff resistance from foreign and domestic pharmaceutical companies over its plan to limit prices for drugs severely.
LONDON—The European Union Thursday pledged funds to find new antiobiotics, its first attempt to help drugmakers develop medicines to fight increasingly drug-resistant superbugs that are taking more lives every year and adding to rising ...
Europe's tentative step towards addressing the screaming need for new antibiotics, while laudable, smacks of "too little, too late." Excessive overuse of existing antibiotics and a lack of research and development into finding new ones means ...
MUMBAI (MarketWatch) – While Indian stocks are among the worst performers among Asian peers this year, the pharmaceutical and consumer discretionary sectors have been booming since March.
By Corrie Driebusch, Mia Lamar and Drew FitzGerald Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday's session are J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM), McDermott International Inc. (MDR) and Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...
Pharmaceuticals are getting swallowed up left and right. This evening after the close, Jazz Pharmaceuticals announced it would pay as much as $700 million in cash for EUSA Pharma Inc., a privately held company with a leukemia treatment.
The Senate voted Thursday to expand the number of drug companies that must pay the Food and Drug Administration to review new products and gave the agency new powers to regulate drug supplies.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.—Revealing the results of a special grand jury investigation, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota on Thursday blamed physicians and pharmacists for an epidemic of prescription-drug addiction in the past decade.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Canadian stocks closed fractionally higher on Thursday as commodities recovered from recent losses. But anxiety over whether Greece will stay in the euro zone kept some investors on the sidelines.
If you haven't heard of Stargardt disease, it's not because it isn't serious. The condition results in blindness, there's no approved treatment and there are few options for delaying the damage it progressively wreaks. But it only afflicts 1 ...
HONG KONG—Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., a unit of conglomerate Fosun International Ltd., has received Hong Kong regulatory approval for its up to $800 million Hong Kong initial public offering, a person familiar with the ...