Amersham's Push for High-Value Diagnostics

Amersham Health is applying Big Pharma marketing and R&D strategies to the traditionally stodgy, highly price-sensitive field of diagnostic imaging contrast agents. It has been far more aggressive than competitors in working to make innovation the basis of competition. But some analysts question whether the company can maintain near-to-mid-term growth as it awaits results of its risky, long-term effort in molecular imaging.