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FERMENTA INTO LOSS

6 April 1992

Swedish drugmaker Fermenta reported a 1.23 billion kroner ($203.4 million) loss for 1991, compared with a loss of 599 million...

ASPIRIN HELPS BAYER IN ITALY

6 April 1992

Favorable trends in drugs business and especially good sales of standard products such as aspirin are reported to have helped...

US HOSPITAL FORMULARY GUIDE

6 April 1992

The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists has released guidelines on formulary system management for its members.

The ASHP notes that in...

new swiss hospital costs program

6 April 1992

The Swiss Federal Council has come out in support of the need for severe measures to combat increasing health care...

ARIAD PHARMACEUTICALS STOCK SALE

6 April 1992

The biotechnology concern Ariad Pharmaceuticals of the USA is reported to have raised $46 million in a private stock sale,...

NEW DIRECTOR AT WHO

6 April 1992

Lionel Brisson of France has been appointed as director of program development and monitoring in the Office of the Director-General...

BTG SALE COMPLETED

6 April 1992

The sale of British Technology Group by the UK government to a management and employee buy-out consortium was completed at...

AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH OF ROCHE'S AURORIX

6 April 1992

Hoffmann-La Roche's reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type A, Aurorix (moclobemide) has now been launched in Australia. The novel antidepressant...

AMA REPORT ON CONTRACEPTIVES

6 April 1992

The outcome of a report from the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees concludes that long-acting contraceptives may be medically...

ICN-GALENIKA "HEALTHY SHARES"

6 April 1992

Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency reports that Milan Panic, head of ICN-Galenika and founder of US-based ICN Pharmaceuticals, is saying the...