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...Merger and acquisition activity, not research and development excellence, explains the persistence of top-ranking companies, according to Wharton professor Patricia Danzon....
...Axios’ Sara Fischer dug up a great scoop from the sheet FTAV shared: purportedly independent media company The Block has “been secretly funded for more than a year with money funnelled to The Block’s CEO...
...It is buying vaccines on behalf of member states in order to supplement supplies from Covax, a facility backed by the World Health Organization that is providing vaccines for free to 92 countries, including...
...The consumer health business, which makes over-the-counter medicines like pain reliever Advil and nutritional supplement Centrum, generated $3.4bn in sales last year, Pfizer said....
...In a complaint in federal US court, the Minnesota-based company alleged that Muddy Waters, its founder Carson Block, and research group MedSec attempted to manipulate St Jude’s stock price by “intentionally...
...company’s pills....
...Confidentiality, and protection from law enforcement agencies, is guaranteed by the FDA and the National Institutes of Health....
...AbbVie defended plans to shift its tax residence to the UK after agreeing to buy Shire for £32bn and urged US politicians to consider comprehensive tax reform rather than trying to block American companies...
...LLC....
...Elan, the Irish-based speciality drug company, claimed its shareholders would be drawn into a “shadowy web of hedge funds” as it won an injunction in the US temporarily freezing a planned $6.5bn takeover...
...If they detected someone repeatedly looking at an unauthorised drug website from the same computer, they had software to block access, or make the site appear to have been taken down, to throw investigators...
...However, its lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration to block generic versions of Seroquel failed this week....
...In a conference call with investors, Schering’s chief executive and chairman, Fred Hassan, said the company’s strong stable of drugs in late-phase development would help supplement the “cholesterol challenge...
...Montgomery Scott LLC....
...US company Citigroup was again mentioned. Corus fell 3.2 per cent to 60p in heavy trading volumes amid rumours that two blocks of shares totalling 61m shares were sold just before the close of trade....
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