San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals is acquiring San Diego-based Pfenex for a total deal transaction of up to $516 million.

The European Commission gave conditional approval for the use of remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making the antiviral the region’s first authorized therapy to treat the virus.

MADRID (Reuters) – The leaders of six European Union nations have called for building up EU stocks of critical medicines and equipment and other measures to boost the bloc’s long-term […]

The European Union urged the United States to reconsider its decision to cut ties with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic

A global campaign to fund the development of vaccines and therapies against COVID-19 has so far raised 9.5 billion euros ($10.4 billion), the head of the European Commission said.

India shipped 50 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine to the United States, an Indian source with direct knowledge of the exports said, although U.S. regulators warned the anti-malarial drug may have harmful side effects in the treatment of COVID-19.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. offered to divest Celgene Corp.’s psoriasis treatment Otezla to allay concerns raised by the U.S. competition regulator, and pushed back the closing of their $74 billion deal.

GlaxoSmithKline offered concessions to address EU antitrust concerns over the planned joint venture with Pfizer’s consumer health business, the European Commission said.

The European Commission approved Sprycel (dasatinib) to include the treatment of children and adolescents aged 1 year to 18 years with Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML in chronic phase.

The EC approved Herzuma for patients with early breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, or metastatic gastric cancer whose tumors have HER2 overexpression or HER2 gene amplification.