Month: September 2013
Anti-immigrant Norway party lays claim to government role
By Balazs Koranyi and Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – An anti-immigrant populist party laid claim to a major role in oil-rich Norway's government for the first time on Tuesday after a center-right alliance won a landslide general election victory to oust a Labour administration. The Progress party, which once had among its members Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011 in a gun and bomb attack targeting Labour, came third in Monday's poll, giving it a kingmaker role in coalition building. …
Scottish Medicines Consortium approves MabThera for vasculitis …
GSK shares hit as Advair generics edge closer in U.S.
LONDON (Reuters) – The threat of generic copies of GlaxoSmithKline's best-selling lung drug Advair finally making it to market in the United States hit confidence in the drug maker on Tuesday, sending the stock down more than 3 percent. Fears of cheaper versions of the $8 billion-a-year seller being launched in the world's biggest market were fuelled by a draft guidance document from the Food and Drug Administration setting out the requirements for generic versions of the inhaled drug. …