Canadian Pharmacy News
GSK To Tag Antiretroviral Drug
Trizivir Bottles Shipped To U.S. With Tracking Device
In Pilot Project To Prevent Counterfeiting
28 Mar 2006
GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday announced
it will begin attaching a radio frequency identification
device to bottles of its triple-combination antiretroviral
drug Trizivir shipped to the U.S. as part of a pilot
project that aims to fight counterfeiting of the drug.
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Schering AG Supervisory Board
Supports Bayer Offer
28 Mar 2006
The Supervisory Board of Schering AG,
Germany (FSE: SCH, NYSE: SHR) today announced that it
shares the positive view of the Executive Board of Schering
AG regarding the takeover offer by Bayer AG. The Supervisory
Board will also recommend to Schering AG's shareholders
to accept the offer once the formal offer documents
have been published and assessed. Read
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Innovative Technology For Production
Of New Pharmaceuticals Forms Basis Of New Company
28 Mar 2006
Ghent, Belgium and Espoo, Finland - Plants
produce a lot of valuable pharmaceuticals - but rather
slowly and in small quantities. So, scientists from
the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology
(VIB) have together with Ghent University and VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland developed a technology to
increase the production of pharmaceuticals in plant
cells. The technology forms the foundation for the new
company SoluCel. This week, the authoritative scientific
journal PNAS is publishing results from the researchers
that confirm the importance of the new technology.
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