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AstraZeneca to build $200m factory in China

10.10.11
AstraZeneca shows its appetite for grabbing a larger slice of China's $41 billion (£26 billion) pharmaceuticals market, announcing the country will become home to the most expensive factory it has ever built... more

Drug test disappointment sees Astra shares tumble

02.09.11
Investors dumped shares in pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca as its biggest-selling drug failed to beat US rival Pfizer's product in head-to-head tests... more

Astra sells dental firm in £1bn deal

22.06.11
AstraZeneca has sold its Astra Tech business, one of the world's biggest makers of dental implants, for $1.8 billion (£1.11 billion)... more

AstraZeneca cures US tax headache

28.03.11
AstraZeneca's long-running dispute with US authorities over its tax liabilities is resolved at a cost of $1.1 billion (£690 million) - an amount that allowed investors to breathe a sigh of relief... more

AstraZeneca raided by EU watchdog in drug probe

03.12.10
AstraZeneca admits its offices have been raided by EU competition officials over concerns about possible collusion to keep cheaper copies of its blockbuster heartburn drug Nexium off the market... more

Shares portfolio: Time to go shopping at Lookers

01.11.10
The Standard's City team rates which stocks to buy and sell, with analysis on the top traders' deals and top tips on spread betting... more

AstraZeneca hit with new drug trial setback

27.09.10
AstraZeneca’s experimental prostate cancer pill zibotentan fails to improve survival in a late-stage clinical trial... more

AstraZeneca agrees stem cell cancer research deal

13.09.10
AstraZeneca agrees a deal with the commercial arm of a British charity to take an experimental cancer drug into early clinical trials... more

EC gives thumbs up to AstraZeneca drug

02.09.10
AstraZeneca gets a boost as the European Commission approves its schizophrenia and bipolar drug Seroquel XR as a treatment for major depressive episodes where antidepressants haven’t worked... more

AstraZeneca staff to strike over pensions freeze

24.08.10
AstraZeneca workers will strike next month in protest at the pharmaceutical group’s final salary pension scheme freeze... more

Astra in cost-cutting tie-up with medical researchers

05.07.10
AstraZeneca is to share chemical compounds with the UK’s Medical Research Council to help identify potential new treatments for serious diseases... more

AstraZeneca shares jump after victory in Crestor patent dispute

30.06.10
Shares in AstraZeneca shoot up 10% to 3232p, after the British pharmaceuticals giant wins a major court victory over its money-spinning cholesterol drug Crestor... more

Tesco takes a tumble after earnings are called to account

30.06.10
Supermarket titan Tesco sees its shares suffer after Citigroup accuses it of “consistently aggressive” accounting... more

AstraZeneca ulcer drug blocked in US

01.06.10
AstraZeneca fails to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to sell Axanum... more

AstraZeneca pulls plans for colon cancer drug

28.05.10
AstraZeneca drops plans to file its experimental drug Recentin as a first-line treatment for colon cancer after disappointing trial results... more

AstraZeneca pays £505m tax bill but gets off lightly

23.02.10
AstraZeneca is hit with a £505 million bill to settle a long-running dispute with the taxman over a transfer-pricing deal... more

AstraZeneca to cut another 8,000 jobs

28.01.10
Another 8,000 jobs are to go at drugs giant AstraZeneca on top of the 12,600 which have already been cut... more

AstraZeneca works on superbug antibiotics 'worth billions'

18.01.10
AstraZeneca is developing its antibiotics division to avoid a revenue tail-off when some of its most lucrative drugs come out of patent... more

Astra pulling swine flu vaccine doses

23.12.09
PharmaceuticalS giant AstraZeneca faced embarrassment after it was forced to recall almost five million batches of its pioneering swine flu vaccine... more

AstraZeneca splashes out on depression ‘blockbuster’

03.12.09
Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca today spent up to $1.2 billion (£722 million) on what it hopes will be the next worldwide anti-depressant blockbuster... more

Astra faces 6000 side-effects claims over mind drug

19.11.09
AstraZeneca could face as many as 6000 lawsuits after a judge in America ruled that claims against its psychiatric treatment Seroquel should be put on trial separately... more

AstraZeneca cashes in on swine-flu vaccine

29.10.09
Pharma-giant AstraZeneca today jumped on the swine flu bonanza bandwagon, with H1N1 vaccine sales helping it raise annual profit forecasts ... more

Drug research leaves Astra with a headache

13.07.09
British drug giant AstraZeneca was today suffering the ill effects of medical research that criticised Seroquel, a schizophrenia medicine that is the pharma firm's second best-selling product ... more

AstraZeneca’s Seroquel gets closer to a green light in US

11.06.09
Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca received a boost when the US drug watchdog took the first steps to approve its $4.5 billion anti-psychotic medicine Seroquel for use by children... more

AstraZeneca setback as US limits use of big-selling drug

09.04.09
AstraZeneca has been told by the US Food and Drug Administration that its second biggest-selling drug should not be used as a major treatment for depression... more

Astra suffers asthma drug setback in US

06.04.09
Britain's second-largest drugs firm, AstraZeneca, was hit by delays in its bid to boost sales of its asthma drug Symbicort in the US... more

AstraZeneca shedding 6000 jobs

29.01.09
Health: Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is axeing 6000 jobs worldwide after the company forecast no sales growth in 2009... more

As patents run out, drug firms need to find a new Viagra

08.01.09
Analysis: The head of Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, this week set the pharmaceutical industry alight with talk of a megadeal when he revealed a shopping list of rivals in his sights... more

Bitter pill as drugs giant AstraZeneca chops workers

20.11.08
Pharmaceuticals: Drugs giant AstraZeneca is axeing 250 UK jobs as part of a plan to shed 1400 worldwide... more

D-day for Astra on blockbuster

23.06.08
Drug firm AstraZeneca is due to find out today the fate of its case against generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in the fight to protect its blockbuster drug Seroquel... more


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