UK pharma firms go to court to stop drug switching
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British drugmakers are launching a legal  challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to  switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic  prescription medicines.
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The case of a man refused funding for drugs by his local care trust is taken to the European Commission.
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Drug companies are fighting most of the state initiatives, which they say will deny patients access to valuable treatments.
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GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L won a   partial victory from a European Union court on Wednesday in its   bid to stop Spanish drug wholesalers from re-exporting its   medicines at high premiums.
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The pharmaceutical industry has expressed dissatisfaction over a new deal which will see a seven per cent reduction in the costs to the NHS of major drugs.
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By Stephen Foley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. More than Â£6bn was wiped off the value of the UK&#39;s two giant pharmaceuticals companies yesterday as they and the US regulator attempted to quell a furore over drug safety.
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The maker of generic drugs gets sued twice in one week.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday that pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough Corp. subsidiary Warrick Pharmaceuticals falsely marked up U.S. drug prices at various times through 2003.
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A lawsuit filed by San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto on behalf of 19 California pharmacies accuses 15 major drug companies of conspiracing to inflate drug prices.
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Media & professional: NHS bosses have forced iSoft and other squabbling companies linked to the troubled Â£6.2bn health service IT upgrade to suspend an increasingly acrimonious dispute.
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Drugs wholesalers are seeking an injunction to stop Pfizer changing the way it supplies medicine.
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European regulators raided some of the continentâs biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market.
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A drug manufacturer has been found to infringe patents licensed by the maker of a rival drug.
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The supply of low-cost generic versions of cancer and AIDS treatments for the developing world could be blocked if Novartis wins a legal challenge to Indiaâs patent law.
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Campaigners have hit out at a decision to restrict NHS access to drugs for a leading cause of blindness.
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GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L won a   partial victory on Wednesday in its bid to stop Spanish drug   wholesalers from re-exporting its medicines at high premiums.
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MADISON, NJ - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals lost one of two lawsuits filed in Philadelphia in a string of legal battles surrounding the company&#39;s now-banned diet pill, Pondimin.