11.  NPH International is negotiating with third parties to buy a pharmaceutical group on the mainland.

12.  A new malaria drug has yielded very good results in tests, the British pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome which designed the drug said Wednesday.

13.  Astra hopes to compete on the impotence market with Swedish-American pharmaceutical group Pharmacia and Upjohn, which launched its Caverject treatment in Sweden several years ago.

14.  The plan would force several pharmaceutical groups to reorientate their strategies.

15.  The test was created by the Roche Molecular Systems laboratory in Branchburg, New Jersey, a subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Hoffmann-LaRoche.

16.  The Swedish pharmaceutical group Gambro has signed a conditional agreement with the Finnish company Instrumentarium to sell its Intensive Care and Anesthesia business area, Gambro said Tuesday.

17.  The Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis announced on Monday that it wants to sell its health foods activities in order to concentrate on its core pharmaceutical and health care business.

18.  The Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche has teamed up with British group Vernalis to research and develop new drugs for treating diabetes, the Swiss company said here on Wednesday.

19.  The two groups merged in August to create the ninth largest pharmaceutical group in the world.

20.  The Swedish pharmaceutical group Astra has signed a research cooperation agreement on genetic factors in respiratory disease with the US company Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Astra said Wednesday.