Tag: Roche

• Wednesday, March 4th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  China treating coronavirus patients in severe condition with Roche's Actemra

  

  China will use a Roche Holding AG arthritis drug to treat some coronavirus patients in severe conditions, health authorities said on Wednesday, as the country seeks to build up treatment regiments to help the infected recover.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 08:01 UTC

  Roche family member claims “short term profit maximization has destroyed the planet”

  

  A member of Swiss drug-maker Roche's controlling family said that short-term profit maximization has “destroyed the planet” and the world needs a new breed of capitalism putting long-term interests first.

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Foreign companies in Brazil becoming impatient with the government of Bolsonaro

  

  Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said this week it will stop producing medicines at its Rio de Janeiro unit in Brazil, a new blow to a country whose economy appears to be in its most sluggish decade in 120 years. Roche said the move will take place within the next five years because that factory is not financially sustainable.