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...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...Brunswick Group hired former Pfizer China government affairs vice-president Xi Qing as a partner in Asia....
...(FT, NYT) Pfizer’s unusual U-turn Last week, we published an exclusive story about US drugmaker Pfizer lifting the price of Viagra and 100 other products....
...(The Hill, BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, Times, Devex) Trump v Big Pharma Pfizer reversed drug price increases after being lambasted by the US president, who threatened — as yet unspecified — government...
...Cave canem, even pooches. The Competition and Markets Authority has fined US drug titan Pfizer £84m for unfairly propelling the price of a must-have anti-epilepsy drug skyward....
...I described Alphabet, the restructured version of Google, as “a multi-billion dollar man cave”. One US reader who posted comment said I was a “stuffed shirt Brit”....
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Pfizer, the largest US drugmaker by market value, inched down 0.7 per cent to $14.54 as the stock being removed from the “conviction buy” list at Goldman Sachs....
...Stephen Cave is writing a book on immortality...
...Last week’s US jobs report has knocked investor confidence, and those predicting a V-shaped recovery are finding it harder to justify their positions....
...This spurred groups such as Pfizer of the US and Roche of Switzerland to strike multi-billion-dollar deals during the first half of this year....
...Larzac is the limestone upland grazed by sheep whose milk is curdled, in damp caves, into salty, deliciously rank Roquefort....
...Voting 8-1 in Riegel v Medtronic, the justices barred a suit from the widow of a man injured by a heart catheter that had been approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration....
...The ruling in the case, Credit Suisse v Billing, was highly anticipated because had it been allowed to go forward, banks would have faced the prospect of paying treble damages on claims brought under anti-trust...
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
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