The purchase of DuPont's drug division strengthened Bristol-Myers Squibb's already thriving AIDS drug franchise.
Bayer's Werner Wenning has yet to find a partner for the company's ailing drug division.
Unfortunately, the good data is not enough to firm up Bayer's limping drug division.
Partnering with or buying Bayer's drug division outright would also give it a bigger share of Levitra sales.
Many have speculated that Bayer will have to partner off the drug division or even sell it outright.
Bayer was forced to recall Baycol, leading to speculation that its drug division cannot survive on its own.
The drug division is unlikely to remain profitable as a separate entity, with Baycol gone and only a skimpy near-term drug pipeline.
Joshua Sharfstein, an associate commissioner who is expected to be closely involved with the agency's drug division, has already started.
Pfizer has a generic drug division named Greenstone and some consumers might feel most comfortable asking for the Greenstone generic Lipitor.
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Merely casting off distractions doesn't necessarily make a drug division work, however.
BASF, which has the smallest drug division of the three sisters, has the advantage of having so far been seen as the ugliest.
Yesterday, the company announced fourth-quarter earnings, saying that while profits and sales of medical devices rose slightly, the company's flagship prescription-drug division was battered.
But Bayer would be foolish to prevent the drug division, which is relatively small by international standards, from teaming up with another firm in some future consolidation.
Dr. Jeff Farrar, head of the California health department's food and drug division, said it's likely that the roasted pistachios will be found in a wide variety of products.
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As I detailed in 2011, there is a big push for Pfizer, which is already divesting its baby formula and veterinary divisions, to split its drug division in two.
The idea was that new chief executive Ian Read would break the company up into five pieces so that the drug division would be able to grow from a smaller base.
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And there is continuous discussion that Glaxo, big as it is, might want to do another deal to spur its growth--perhaps buying Bayer's troubled drug division and getting Levitra sales all to itself.
This method of bookkeeping does explain a question that may have worried some investors: how Medco, originally conceived as a small part of Merck, managed to swell its revenue beyond those of Merck's flagship drug division.
Many analysts, including Jami Rubin at Goldman Sachs and, more recently, Timothy Anderson at Bernstein Research, have argued that Pfizer could split up the company in such a way that the remaining drug division could be a small, fast-growing pharma.
Richard Pazdur , who heads the FDA's cancer-drug division, told the crowd at the hearing in late September that the agency was rolling on its "merry way" toward approving Iressa until it was "floored" to hear of the drug's failure in the two large trials.
"It so happens that this year, the compounds that represent the kind of novel approach to medicine that we want to develop happen to be in phase I or phase II, " says Dennis Burns , the head of global business development at Hoffman-La Roche , Roche's U.S.-based drug division.
To get the approvals, King promised verbally not to promote AtroPen until the FDA's neuropharmacological drug products division had a chance to assess the policy implications of distributing counter-terror drugs and look at and comment on the AtroPen marketing materials.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol Marine Operations Division and the Division of Drug and Crime Control were investigating, and autopsies were planned, authorities said.
One of them is CD870, the rheumatoid arthritis drug Ando's division licensed for Pharmacia and will be developing with the new Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Most of its promising pipeline drugs are in the Oncology division where the drug maker has a formidable presence.
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It still appears that Bayer may buy Aventis CropScience, the agricultural division of Franco-German drug giant Aventis .
It's a variation on the well-established breast cancer drug Taxol, which works by inhibiting cell division.
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Likewise, the recall of a key cholesterol drug led Bayer to detach its health care division so that it could partner the unit with other companies.
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