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Strings attached for PCTs' £148bn three-year budgets
Primary care trusts in England have been allocated a total of £148.3 billion for the next three years, representing a 30% average increase to meet growing cost pressures...(more)

Ageing atypical could help cut suicide levels
Novartis' atypical antipsychotic Clozaril could lead to a reduction in suicide rate among patients suffering from schizophrenia, according to a new study...(more)

OTC Claritin hits Schering-Plough
Schering-Plough has admitted that it underestimated the effect that Claritin switching to an over-the-counter product would have on its profits...(more)

Patent challenge to Galen's new product
Galen faces a legal challenge in the US over the patent rights to a product it bought only last month...(more)

NHS gamble could fail, Blair advisor warns
The Government's political gamble on improving the NHS could fail because of shortcomings in its huge investment and reform programme, according to a Downing Street advisor...(more)

'Bogus disease' argument flares up again
The British Medical Journal has accused the pharmaceutical industry of creating bogus disease areas in order to sell treatments...(more)

Little price competition in UK, says report
Price competition is not a major factor in the UK prescription pharma market, according to a Department of Health report...(more)

Outlook improving for GSK
The prospects for the troubled Anglo-American giant GlaxoSmithKline may be changing after a storm of patent expiry threats, senior executive departures and plummeting investor confidence in 2002...(more)

Long-awaited diabetes NSF launched
The long awaited diabetes national service framework has been launched with demanding new targets for the improvement of NHS services...(more)

Labour split over foundation trusts exposed
Deep divisions within the Labour party over foundation hospitals have been further exposed in the House of Commons...(more)

SkyePharma profitability edges closer on licensing deals
SkyePharma long-term profitability was brought a step closer after it finally secured licensing deals for two of its lead products...(more)

Deadlock over access to medicines
A row over patents on diabetes and asthma drugs has produced a deadlock in talks to improve access to medicines in the developing world...(more)

Pharmacia chief tipped for Schering role
Current Pharmacia Chief Executive Fred Hassan has been tipped to take over the top job at Schering-Plough once the Pfizer/Pharmacia merger is completed...(more)

DoH takes generics companies to court for price fixing
The Department of Health has started the first of two multi-million pound court actions against alleged cartels of generic drug manufacturers...(more)

Investment banker to be Elan chief executive
Kelly Martin, a former senior executive at Merrill Lynch, has been named chief executive of troubled Irish pharmaceutical company Elan...(more)

Industry's legal challenge to 'arbitrary' pricing
European industry body EFPIA is seeking legal action against the Italian Government new reimbursement and pricing policy, which it believes unfairly targets pharmaceutical companies...(more)

Abbott surprised by early Humira approval
Abbott Laboratories says US approval of its rheumatoid arthritis product Humira has come earlier than expected, and will now increase spending on its launch in 2003...(more)

Mixed Paxil patent news for GSK
GlaxoSmithKline has received mixed news in the on-going patent battle with Canadian generics company Apotex over its biggest selling drug, antidepressant Paxil...(more)

Galen boosted by $295m Sarafem purchase
Galen has bolstered its product range by buying the rights to pre-menstrual syndrome treatment Sarafem from Lilly for $295 million...(more)

Private sector invited to take over failing hospitals
The poorest performing NHS hospitals could now be run by private companies under new plans unveiled by the Government...(more)

Pfizer blockbuster to face competition
Pfizer's blockbuster hypertension and angina treatment Norvasc could face competition from a related drug following a US court ruling...(more)


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