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(BizWorld) Net losses fell by 44pc in the first half of the year to USD 159.4 m at Irish drugs company Elan, as sales of its key Tysabri drug rose sharply. Revenue from the multiple sclerosis drug rose seven fold to USD 134.

*RPT-HIKMA PHARMACEUTICALS CEO SEES PROFITABILITY UP ON A MONTH-BY-MONTH BASIS - tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com ra COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved.

MUMBAI: Shares of Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals surged nearly 10 per cent after it announced plans to invest Rs 5 billion in two SEZs and enter into manufacturing and marketing of two disinfectant and sanitisation products in India, Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON - What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly - one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000?

Dr Chris Smith, Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in virology at the University of Cambridge has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society(1) Kohn award for his work engaging a diverse audience with science, it was announced today (Thursday 28 August 2008). Dr Smith received the award for his pioneering radio show - the Naked Scientists ..

Fritz London Memorial Prize goes to Springer advisory board member Springer advisory board member Vladimir V. Dmitriev, along with fellow scientists Yuriy M. Bunkov and Igor A. Fomin, have been named winners of the 2008 Fritz London Memorial Prize for their discovery and understanding of the "Phase Coherent Spin Precession and Spin Superfluidity ..