Lord Beecham wanted to change the bill to strengthen communications between local councils and police commissioners.
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SmithKline Beecham's chief scientific officer, George Poste, speaks of pharmacogenomics as the savior of the industry.
Among the first to recognize this potential was George Poste, former chief scientist for SmithKline Beecham.
In 1996 SmithKline Beecham vowed to discover two new antibiotic classes by 2003.
Now, it is losing market share rapidly to competitors such as Pfizer's Zoloft and SmithKline Beecham's Paxil.
WHO, which is starting, in collaboration with Merck and SmithKline Beecham, a massive drug-donation programme for the disease.
Most drugs on the market today target such receptors: SmithKline Beecham's ulcer medicine Tagamet, and American Home Product's hypertension drug Inderal.
The hastily announced drug merger between Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham collapsed when neither boss was prepared to pay second fiddle.
And Wellcome and Beecham, great drug companies, now lost somewhere in GlaxoSmithKline.
Sir Jeremy Beecham, Labour's leader on the association, claimed local authorities spent too much time reporting to the government, rather than their residents.
Shadow health minister Lord Beecham made a distinction between "effective" and "less effective" campaigning as he emphasised the need to evaluate what works.
Two new giants were created in the drug industry : Glaxo Wellcome announced a union with SmithKline Beecham, and Pfizer completed its acquisition of Warner-Lambert.
In Britain, there is a well-worn path between drug giants such as SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome, and executive and non-executive slots on biotech boards.
Lord Beecham's amendments were defeated in a division, by 54 votes.
BBC: Call for councils to have closer relationship with PCCs
Avandia was invented in the laboratories of Smithkline Beecham, a Glaxo predecessor, two decades ago as one of a class of medicines meant to treat diabetes.
Wyeth-Ayerst, Abbott Laboratories, Merck, SmithKline Beecham and Pfizer have invested heavily in the field, either on their own or by buying or teaming up with smaller, entrepreneurial research outfits.
He instead joined SmithKline Beecham, the predecessor of GSK, in 1996 for the purpose of picking up the management experience he needed to head the next startup.
The U.S. arm of U.K. pharmaceutical firm SmithKline Beecham agreed in principle with a Cuban biotech institute to develop and market a meningitis vaccine created by the Cubans.
The U.S. arm of British pharmaceutical firm SmithKline Beecham agreed in principle with a Cuban biotech institute to develop and market a meningitis vaccine created by the Cubans.
The new combined vaccine, Hepatyrix, is marketed by SmithKline Beecham.
Sir Jeremy Beecham, who was acting as Mr Blair's warm-up man in the main hall, thanked Mrs Stihler and her campaign team, eliciting a ripple of applause from the hall.
Labour's Lord Beecham supported calls for the retention of legal aid in clinical negligence cases, arguing it was wrong to "dismantle the machinery" that provided access to justice in this area.
For example, Sir Jeremy Beecham, the impressive chairman of Britain's Local Government Association, has been put on Mr Cunningham's cabinet committee to help to get central and local government working together.
For one thing, there's Chief Financial Officer Andrew Bonfield , who previously worked as CFO at SmithKline Beecham, now part of GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ).
Lord Beecham told the House the opposition supported the amendment, which had been tabled by Lord Wigley, Labour peers Baroness Gould of Potternewton and Lord Judd and crossbencher Baroness Howe of Idlicote.
Megamergers like Vodaphone's bid to buy Mannesmann in telecom and Glaxo Wellcome's embrace of SmithKline Beecham in drugs are reducing the supply of big, rich companies that can pay Spencer Stuart's hefty fees.
To facilitate the restatement, New York City-based Bristol brought on a new chief financial officer, Andrew Bonfield Andrew Bonfield , who served as chief financial officer at SmithKline Beecham before it became part of GlaxoSmithKline .
Dr Alistair Benbow, medical director of SmithKline Beecham, said that ropinirole was associated with sleepiness, but only in a tiny minority of patients, and that the company had never previously come across patients who experienced sudden sleep attacks.
There has also been speculation that the company, formed two years ago from a tie-up between the UK's Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, could be forced into further costly mergers or acquisitions in order to ensure future growth.
GSK's two predecessor companies, SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome, which merged to form GSK in 2000, had been among the first to invest in gene-hunting technology that scientists once thought would fast lead to a bushelful of new drugs.
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