When Brenda Coffee married her charismatic boss Philip Ray, 14 years her senior, the wide-eyed 21-year-old imagined an exciting future of love, wealth and shared adventures.

Roche Holding, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostic giant, acquired the business in 2008 for $3.4 billion and has expanded its reach. Ventana had gone public 12 years earlier, in 1996.

The most common drug, Valium, produced by the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceutical company – now Roche Holdings RHHBY – was introduced in 1963 and gained popularity as a sedative almost immediately.

Swiss pharma giant Roche, the parent company of gene therapy pioneer Genentech, announced this week that it is divesting Genentech's 427K SF facility in Vacaville, the largest bio-manufacturing ...

The Sackler family learned this week that only a small chunk of their fortune would be paid for the nightmare their drug gave our nation.

A predator who forced his way into a woman's home before trying to rape her was branded as being 'every woman's worst nightmare'. Darren Roche was jailed for life following the terrifying attack ...

Five milligram valium tablets which come in a 50 tablet blister pack are being recalled after drug maker Roche identified possible product tampering. Valium tablets are being recalled amid fears ...

Doctors wrote 45 million Valium prescriptions in 1978 alone. By then, Valium represented 40% of Hoffmann-La Roche’s $1.4 billion in annual revenues from drug sales.

Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty 5. Diazepam The first benzodiazepine, a type of nervous system depressant, was created in 1955 and marketed by drug company Hoffmann-La Roche as Librium.