Death Pushes Novartis to Halt Trial; Merck Will Slash Jobs, Costs - Apr. 20, 2012

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Friday, April 20, 2012  |   |   |   |  The Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (PCF) International Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress, www.InternationalPharmaCongress.com, May 14-16, 2012, takes place at the Hilton Budapest in Budapest, Hungary and features tracks on EU, CEE, MEA, global compliance audits and monitoring, FCPA and global anticorruption, global transparency, discourse and aggregate spend and global compliance case studies. For more information, please visit: http://internationalpharmacongress.com/.   •  Death Pushes Novartis AG (NVS) to Halt Trial More... •  Merck KGaA (MKGAF.PK) Will Slash Jobs, Costs More... •  Aspen Pharmacare Ltd. Buys GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) OTC Drug Brands for $263 Million More... •  European Medicines Evaluation Agency Supports Novartis AG (NVS)' Gilenya With Stronger Warning More... •  Consumer Group to FDA: Pull Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO)'s Victoza Off the Market More... •  FDA Issues Warning Over Fentanyl Patches; Makers Include Mylan Inc. (MYL) and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (WPI) More... •  Elan Corporation PLC (ELN), Scientists Chases After Alzheimer Prevention Drug More... •  Bankrupt Cetero Research is Redoing Studies for Which Drugmakers? More... More Top News The Business of Invention: Patenting for Biotechs Nutter's Life Sciences Group invites you to attend a forum for biotech executives and general counsel, BD, CSOs and biomedical inventors involved in the creation and commercialization of IP. 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