Roche in talks with world&#39;s best
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TONY ROCHE has coached two vastly contrasting former world No.1s: Ivan Lendl, consummate professional with lethal groundstrokes, and Pat Rafter, the congenial exponent of serve-volley.
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Roche Holding AG and GlaxoSmithKline  said on Wednesday they asked U.S. regulators to approve an  intravenous form of their osteoporosis drug that could be  administered far less frequently.
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The telecommunications company is said to be in negotiations, in what may be the latest round of deal making in its industry.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - Six-time Tour de Franc  winner Lance Armstrong will decide in late April whether to  take part in the world's leading cycling race this year.
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Group on Thursday announced third-quarter sales up 9 percent from the same period last year, driven by strong growth from its two leading cancer treatments.
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce
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It will be three years before it and partner Roche evaluate results for a treatment for lupus.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Net profit at Roche Holding AG  rose 34 percent to 9.17 billion Swiss francs ($7.33 billion) in 2006 due to strong sales of cancer treatments Herceptin and Avastin, just ahead of analysts' expectations.
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efore facing an opponent, particularly a top-flight one, Sargis Sargsian sometimes receives advice from Andre Agassi. In a telephone conversation the night before the match, Agassi will
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Roche Holding AG, the world's biggest maker of diagnostic tests, offered to buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc. for about $3 billion as it expands screening to match patients with the right drugs.
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The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding said its chief executive would step down next March as the company separates that job from the chairmanâs position. Franz B. Humer, who has been chief since 1998, will remain chairman of the board. Next July, he also will become chairman of the beverage company Diageo. He will be succeeded by Severin Schwan, 40, who had been the head of Rocheâs diagnostics unit since January. The company also posted a 24 percent increase in first-half net profit, to 4.92 billion Swiss francs ($4.1 billion) from 3.97 billion francs in the period a year earlier. Roche benefited from its flu treatment Tamiflu as governments stockpile the drug in case of an influenza pandemic.
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Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it is in  talks to acquire a private biotechnology company called  Angiosyn Inc., which is developing a drug for macular  degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
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ROGER Federer has joined a virtual Who&#39;s Who of international tennis stars to have courted Tony Roche - only to be politely rejected.
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Net profit at Roche Holding  AG  rose 34 percent to 9.17 billion Swiss francs ($7.33  billion) in 2006 due to strong sales of cancer treatments  Herceptin and Avastin, just ahead of analysts' expectations.
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Dec. 19--Pfizer, the world&#39;s biggest drug maker, and the rest of the pharmaceutical sector will come under renewed pressure this week after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned doctors to consider
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A drug called Tarceva boosts the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs to prolong the lives of people with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to the drug&#39;s manufacturer, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche.
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Drug makers are exploring the possibility of tying pharmaceutical prices to performance.