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Merck KGaA

Biotech, drug stocks drop to 52-week lows

The share prices of major pharmaceutical, biotech and medical-device stocks hit 52-week lows as the broad market volatility claimed sectors traditionally considered safe havens. Each major U.S. drug stock hit its lowest price...

Phase Forward Announces Third Quarter Financial Reporting Date for October 27, 2008

Phase Forward Incorporated (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, announced today that it will release financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 and...

Ablynx (Euronext:ABLX) generates new Nanobodies against GPCR and announces start of preclinical...

GHENT, Belgium, 10 October, 2008 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX], a pioneer in the discovery and development of Nanobodies®, a novel class of antibody-derived therapeutic proteins, announced today it has successfully...

Cash reserves may mean it's time for acquisitions for drugmakers

Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co., flush with cash, are prowling for new products through acquisitions as the global credit crunch makes it harder for small biotechnology companies to finance their research.

Merck Serono Named as a Top Employer by Science Magazine

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Ranked Number 7 out of top 20 Employers Across Life Sciences Industry GENEVA, Switzerland, October 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany,...

RotaTeq® Receives WHO Prequalification

Sanofi Pasteur, MSD, Merck & Co Posted on:10 Oct 08 Lyon, 10th October 2008 – RotaTeq®, the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur MSD and Merck & Co. Inc., that helps prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants,...

25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, U.S. says

The CDC calls the rate 'very good' for a new vaccine such as Gardasil. Earlier data show, however, that only about 1% of Latina teens have received it. About a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial...

Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Declaratory Judgment Counterclaims in Trusopt/Cosopt Case...

Merck & Co. v. Apotex, No. 2008-1133 (Fed. Cir. 2008) In 2005, Hi-Tech Pharmacal became the first company to file a paragraph IV certification relating to Merck's glaucoma drugs Trusopt and Cosopt. Hi-Tech filed paragraph IV...

Peddling Prescriptions

By Johnson, Linda A TRENTON, N.J. - Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits...

One-Quarter Of Teens Received Merck's Gardasil - CDC

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said about 25% of teenage girls received at least one dose of Merck & Co.'s (MRK) Gardasil vaccine in 2007, providing the first national estimate of vaccine...

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