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Agilent buys Danish cancer diagnostics group
The $2.2bn acquisition of Dako is the biggest deal in the US company's history and marks the latest acquisition in the rapidly consolidating sector

HGSI fights GSK bid with 'poison pill'
US-based biotech claims of talks with alternative buyers as it formally rejects as 'inadequate' GlaxoSmithKline's $2.6bn hostile takeover bid

Breakthrough for brain-controlled robotics
Two paralysed people have used new technology to enable them to drink ? the first time they have done so without help

'Fat tax' proposed to cut obesity
Tackle the problem by introducing a minimum levy of 20% on unhealthy food, says report in the British Medical Journal

Battle against Alzheimer's stepped up
The US National Institutes of Health launches a clinical study on a drug that doctors hope could stop the debilitating condition that leads to memory loss

AstraZeneca among suitors eyeing Amylin
Move comes amid flurry of pharma M&A activity as analysts value US drugmaker at about $3.5bn, with first-round bids expected in next two weeks

Cardinal bows to US drug agency
One of the country's largest pharmaceutical wholesalers agreed to suspend shipments from one its distribution centres as ordered by the Drug Enforcement Agency

Straitened NHS boosts private hospitals
Gap is growing between demand for healthcare and the state's ability to deliver, creating opportunities for rival providers

Curb export of prescription drugs, MPs say
'Speculators' who export prescription drugs to other EU nations are creating shortages and threaten patient safety, says the All Party Pharmacy Group

UK report clears breast implant regulator
British regulators should have been more critical but that the responsibility for defects in the prosthetic devices lies firmly with French company PIP

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