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Pharma ETFs In Focus On Allergan Takeover Deal
2014-11-23 12:08:41| Biotech - Topix.net
The health care space is witnessing 2014 as another banner year thanks to encouraging industry trends, solid corporate earnings and huge levels of merger and acquisition activities. The sector is clearly leading the broad market rally and this trend is likely to continue to close out the year given another round of merger talk .
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Valeant Pharma says may buy back up to $2 billion worth of securities
2014-11-21 03:33:09| Biotech - Topix.net
The company said it could buy back senior notes, shares or other securities under the new program, which will begin on Nov. 21, the same day its old program ends. The announcement comes a few days after acquisition-hungry Valeant's $54 billion offer to buy Botox maker Allergan Inc "Valeant's board of directors believes that the proposed purchases are in the best interests of the company and are a desirable use of corporate funds," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
Phood booed: Why big pharma fails at functional food
2014-11-20 06:43:22| Biotech - Topix.net
Faced with mounting difficulties in their drug businesses, many pharmaceutical manufacturers are looking at getting into functional foods and beverages, notes food marketing expert, Julian Mellentin in this guest article. It's not a new strategy.
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Moberg Pharma changes in Board of Directors
2014-11-17 08:48:50| Appliances - Topix.net
Moberg Pharma AB announces that, effective as of today, George E. Aitken-Davies has resigned from the Board of Directors of Moberg Pharma in conjunction with the final earn-out payment related to the acquisition of Alterna LLC in 2012. Appointed by Altaris Capital Partners, George E. Aitken -Davies remains a member of the Nomination Committee of Moberg Pharma until the Annual General Meeting in May 2015.
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Suicides Not Caused By Suicide-Linked Drugs Say Pharma Consultants to the Military
2014-11-14 19:39:54| Biotech - Topix.net
Once again, Pharma-subsidized consultants have looked at suicides in the military and managed to not see the suicide-linked drugs given to troops, some of which grew by 700 percent in the past years. In March, a report in JAMA Psychiatry penned by authors with financial links to Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Ortho-McNeil, Janssen, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Shire and Johnson & Johnson said the deaths are a mystery but they certainly aren't from psychoactive drugs whose labels have boxed warnings about suicide ! SSRI antidepressants are called "first line medications for PTSD pharmacotherapy in men and women with military-related PTSD" in the VA's Iraq War Clinician Guide but did not merit a mention by the authors.
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