Pharmaceuticals industry

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• GlaxoSmithKline to float minority stake of HIV treatment company

  22 Oct 2014: Pharmaceuticals group says ViiV Healthcare could be worth more than Marks & Spencer or Sainsbury’s if allowed to stand alone

• Tasmania’s grip on opium poppy industry weakens as plant moves north

  21 Oct 2014: Island state still grows almost 50% of the world’s pharmaceutical opium poppies, but major factory will move to Victoria to avoid ban on crop imports

• Shire CFO to leave for Severn Trent as AbbVie drops bid

  20 Oct 2014: James Bowling’s departure hints at the disruption caused by AbbVie’s on-off deal to acquire Shire

• US labs asked for proposals to produce experimental Ebola drug ZMapp

  17 Oct 2014: While the medication has not undergone rigorous clinical trials, US health officials want to replenish supply to combat the ongoing Ebola crisis

• Big pharma has an interest in rich people being sick

  17 Oct 2014: Giles Fraser: Loose canon: If everyone were healthy, it would be the job of the pharmaceutical companies to persuade us that we were not well

• WikiLeaks' free trade documents reveal 'drastic' Australian concessions

  17 Oct 2014: Secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership have been apparently revealed, and experts are concerned about what they show

• AbbVie withdraws bid for Shire after US gets tough on tax

  16 Oct 2014: Pharmaceutical takeover is the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on so-called tax inversions

• AbbVie reconsiders $54bn takeover of Shire: what the analysts say

  15 Oct 2014: The news triggered a sell-off in UK pharmaceutical shares
  

• Shire shares crash 28% as AbbVie reconsiders £34bn takeover bid

  15 Oct 2014: More than £8bn wiped off drug-maker’s market value and follows moves by US Treasury to clamp down on tax inversion deals

• Australian doctors to ban drug company reps from visiting surgeries

  9 Oct 2014: GPs say the No Advertising Please campaign will help curb the inappropriate prescription of medication

• Depression and me: there are good and bad weeks, but walking with my shadow is becoming easier

  9 Oct 2014: Van Badham: I was reluctant to try medication, and it once granted me much-needed relief from depression. But of course, there is no such thing as a ‘one size fit all’ approach to mental health

• Millions of patients given flu drugs with little or no benefit, study finds

  7 Oct 2014: Researchers say benefits of antiviral drugs may have been inflated by studies paid for by pharmaceutical companies

• Ebola is in America – and, finally, within range of Big Pharma

  5 Oct 2014: Research into tropical diseases is chronically neglected – but the horror of this epidemic could transform the battle against hidden killers

• The European court of human rights’ judgments that transformed British law

  3 Oct 2014: From curbing the British army’s use of torture in Ireland to ending bans on homosexuality, the court has shaped UK law

• Breast cancer drug Perjeta could extend patients’ lives by 15 months – study

  29 Sep 2014: Drugmaker Roche says £43,000-a-year treatment can extend lives of women with aggressive form of disease

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