Sanofi-Aventis becomes world's third-largest pharmaceutical company
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French pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Synthelabo formally announced the birth of Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, ranking number one in Europe.
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A potent new anti-clotting drug from Eli Lilly and Co proved as safe and effective as Sanofi-Aventis's top-seller Plavix in a mid-stage clinical trial, researchers said on Sunday. Now Lilly and its partner Sankyo Co. Ltd. aim to demonstrate clear superiority for their compound, known as prasugrel or CS-747, in a much larger Phase III study involving up to 13,000 patients that is about to get under way.
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The news media and millions of Americans who are overweight are agog about the new anti-obesity drug Acomplia.The drug, under development by Sanofi-Aventis SA, the French pharmaceutical company, is touted as a way to fight obesity and help people stop
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AMSTERDAM -- Schering-Plough Corp. agreed to buy Akzo Nobel NV's drug-making division Organon for $14.4 billion to gain the world's third-largest maker of birth-control pills and a stable of experimental medicines.
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Expectations rose for Sanofi-Aventis's  big new drug hope Acomplia on Friday as the French firm  revealed it would present two-year, rather than one-year, data  on the anti-obesity medicine next week.
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U.S. pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb  has hired three Wall Street banks ahead of a possible offer from France's Sanofi-Aventis , the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has won U.S. approval to sell a new vaccine designed to give longer protection against meningitis, a potentially fatal bacterial infection.
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Where is pharmaceutical company Onyx headed?
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The World Health Organization is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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Sanofi-Synthelabo said earlier this month it would push for 100 percent control of its former rival and newly-acquired subsidiary Aventis after the French Financial Market Authority confirmed the success of its ...
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs  sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a  $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and  Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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Sanofi-Aventis SA on Thursday said revenue rose 10.7 percent in the third quarter, as the company posted its first results since its creation from a tie-up between two French drug makers.
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German drugmaker Merck KGaA   unveiled a surprise 16.6-billion-Swiss franc ($13.3  billion) deal to buy Swiss biotech firm Serono on Thursday,  creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.
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Just a few days after the official birth of Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third-biggest pharmaceuticals company, one of its board members has announced he is stepping down, a source close to the negotiations told AFP.
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A potent new anti-clotting drug from Eli  Lilly and Co proved as safe and effective as Sanofi-Aventis's  top-seller Plavix in a mid-stage clinical trial, researchers  said on Sunday.  Now Lilly and its partner Sankyo Co. Ltd. aim to demonstrate  clear superiority for their compound, known as prasugrel or  CS-747, in a much larger Phase III study involving up to 13,000  patients that is about to get under way.
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FRANKFURT/ZURICH  - Germany drugmaker Merck KGaA   MRCG.DE unveiled a surprise 16.6-billion-Swiss franc ($13.3   billion) deal on Thursday to buy Swiss biotech firm Serono,   creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce