The Labour MP Austin Mitchell has refused to apologise for likening the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to "rapists" over its controversial takeover of AstraZeneca.
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.
Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company is preparing to sell £3bn worth of swine flu drugs this year, it emerged today.
We needed more staff, and more time devoted to talking therapies over pharmaceutical ones.
The decision is a blow for the pharmaceutical companies that have been fighting the growing use of Avastin for age-related wet macular degeneration.
We do not have to provide a pharmaceutical response to those who want to give up smoking.
The pharmaceutical sector is one in which a yawning gap separates laboratory research on the one hand and profitable products on the other.
MSF and its partners in the trials, who include academics, pharmaceutical companies and the World Health Organisation, have agreed to run two trials in Guinea, one of which will investigate the use of blood products from people who have survived Ebola.
The restrictions on imports, combined with the high rate of inflation in Argentina's economy, South America's second-largest, have led in recent years to periodic shortages of pharmaceutical products including latex gloves and needles.
Understanding the risks and benefits of the use of a substance can help us to understand where public resources should be spent in either eradicating the supply of a drug, or in developing the drug for pharmaceutical use.
Other industries that stand to benefit include pharmaceutical, energy, clothing and food and drink.
