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BC Pharmacy Association and Metro Vancouver pair up to dispose of unused prescriptions

Purchasing iNova for A$625 million, Valeant expects to benefit from iNova's Asia-Pacific reach

How realistic is the plot of the movie "Contagion" about the global spread of a deadly virus?

Over issues from illegal Canadian pharmacy advertisements, Google agrees to pay settlement

Despite her impairment, Tara Miller wins CNIB's national Eye Remember photo contest

Acquiring Ortho Dermatologics, Valeant's dermatology sector sees significant growth

McMaster University unveils vaccine based on 10 years of research in Canada

In a testimony at court, psychiatrist believes Prozac is the reason behind teen murder

Drug that reduces cortisol may help with PTSD

Imagine Adoption operators charged with fraud for spending $420,000 of agency funds

An unsolicited offer of 5.7 Billion, Valeant's bid deemed too low

Merck Canada will invest $6.8 million in AmorChem, a Quebec life sciences venture capital fund. The contribution follows a commitment made by Merck in 2010 to invest $100 million over five years in biopharmaceutical research and development in Quebec.

Toronto will be the home of GE Healthcare’s first global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence, a cutting-edge, one-of-a-kind R&D facility that will advance both the technology and adoption of digital pathology solutions,

The diagnosis was received this summer and now the treatment starts.

Each year is marked by a few major events and the people associated. The close of a calendar year allows us at Business Review Canada to highlight the stories that had the biggest impacts. Starting today, we will count down the top 7 stories that shaped business in 2010.

There is an old saying, “don’t let a good crisis go to waste.” The people at Medworxx Inc., a provider of healthcare solutions for patient flow, compliance and education, apparently know it.

Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter tabled his 2010 Annual Report on Monday.

Canadian Tire was recognized for its continued charitable work.

Apparently, the questionable incurred costs for private hospital consultants in Ontario, detailed in a report by the Auditor General recently, aren’t weighing down the whole system.

Ontario’s health system is sick, according to a special report from Auditor General Jim McCarter detailing the controversial role of consultants in healthcare.

Mylan Inc. completed the acquisition of Canadian-headquartered Bioniche Pharma Holdings Limited.

Cancer diagnostics company Biomoda, Inc. has received a notice of allowance for a Canadian patent application for a method of using its proprietary porphyrin-based compound that binds to cancer cells and causes them to fluoresce under specific frequencies of light when viewed under a fl

Health Canada approved 11 of Axxess Pharma Inc.’s new prescription and non-prescription drugs as management anticipates annual sales from the recently approved drugs to exceed $6 million.

Toronto-based Celestica Inc., a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, augments its growing healthcare division with the acquisition Austria’s Allied Panels Entwicklungs-und Produktions GmbH.

Toronto’s Sentinelle Medical, a leader in breast imaging technologies using high-field strength MRI to help in the earlier detection and better treatment of breast cancer, was acquired by US-based Hologic Inc.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. expands presence in North America and eight other countries via $3.2 billion merger

Chemaphor Inc. announced that it has launched a stem cell regenerative therapy for pets and horses in Canada. Chemaphor has gained access to the exclusive marketing rights for this procedure in Canada through the acquisition of a private company, of which the ultimate licensor of this regenerative stem cell therapy is Vet-Stem Inc. of California.

The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State, welcomed renowned scientist Dr. Stephen Hawking to Canada.

BIOTECanada confirmed a national team of industry leaders whose expertise will proliferate Canada’s $84 billion bio-economy at its 2010 annual general meeting in Montreal.

Canada’s banks must contend with regulatory reform measures aboard because staying competitive globally requires expanding operations into foreign markets, according to Capco, a leading global provider of consulting and managed services to the financial services industry. The issue is...

Canadian executive search firm Four Corners Group goes global via a new partnership with InterSearch Worldwide, a robust international network of search firms. Four Corners Group opens a new pipeline in its search resources by tapping into InterSearch’s global level and access to international candidates.

A division of Elliott & Page Limited, one of Canada's leading integrated financial services providers, Manulife Mutual Funds has rebranded and relaunched the Value Leaders Portfolios as the Manulife Leaders Portfolios.