The FINANCIAL -- Ahead of this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, Lucozade – the UK’s leading sports and energy drink – today announces an innovative performance partnership with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.

The FINANCIAL --  In a lunch debate held at the European Parliament in Brussels EPF, CPME, PGEU and EFPIA brought together perspectives of patients, doctors, community pharmacists and the research-based pharmaceutical industry presenting examples of best practices on adherence to therapies and demonstrating how a coordinated, multistakeholder and patient-centred approach – involving patients, their carers/families, health professionals, industry, and the public, is a key factor in improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare tailored to patients’ needs.

The FINANCIAL -- Bayer Technology Services (BTS) and TU Dortmund University have opened the INVITE research center at Chempark Leverkusen.

The FINANCIAL -- Scientists from Bayer CropScience and the research institute VIB-UGent, Belgium, have started a collaboration to develop crops with higher yields and improved tolerance to stresses such as drought or soil salinity.

The FINANCIAL --  Eli Lilly and Company today presented data comparing the mechanisms of action of FORTEO and zoledronic acid based on data that evaluated histomorphometric measurements of bone remodeling in transiliac crest bone biopsies from postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.