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...“Mexico has been abnormally aggressive in pursuing agreements to run trials . . . it is very much the case that Mexico is leading the pack right now,” said Jonathan Terluk, deputy director of operations...
...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....
...My two mixed-breed dogs, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, adopted during the pandemic, climb on my knees, asking to be stroked....
...Pfizer passed on the distribution of Epanutin to Flynn in 2012, when the price of 100mg packs rose from £2.83 to £67.50 in a day....
...Pfizer and BioNTech started enrolling participants in their phase 1 study in September....
...Pfizer is working on a similar drug, as is Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co....
...A facility to pack and distribute Sputnik V will open in May, with plans for it eventually to be produced in Serbia....
...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....
...Generic drugs are not subject to the same price controls as branded medicines, meaning the packs of pills soared overnight....
...Intercept raised its liver drug Ocaliva by 7 per cent to $263.48 per pill or nearly $8,000 for a pack of 30. Acella, Acorda and Intercept did not respond to requests for comment....
...It fined Pfizer £84.2m and Flynn £5.2m....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...[MUSIC - DIRTY BLONDE, "WOAH VICKY"] (SINGING) I've been my pack, baby. Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby....
...It gave the job to Pfizer, the US pharmaceutical company, which it seems messed it up....
...In December 2016 the CMA fined Pfizer and Flynn a total of £90m....
...Packs of the capsules that had cost £2.83 went up to £67.50, while annual NHS spending on the drug jumped from £2m in 2012 to £50m the following year....
...The company had priced a two-pack of EpiPens at roughly $600 until 2016, when a political and public backlash forced it to introduce a cheaper generic version....
...(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...
...Hikma, the London-listed drugmaker, raised the price of several strengths of morphine — which was first marketed in the 1800s — by between 75 and 90 per cent, taking a 25-pack of vials from $30 to $58....
...Pfizer, for example, raised the price of 148 drugs, including Viagra, its erectile dysfunction treatment, and Lyrica, for nerve pain....
...The average wholesale price of a 30-dose pack of Restasis has more than doubled from $117 in 2008 to almost $280 today, according to figures seen by the Financial Times....
...Mylan said it would start selling an unbranded EpiPen within weeks at $300 for a pack of two, a 50 per cent reduction over the $600 cost of the branded version....
...Marathon, the Houston-based exploration and production company, led the pack, falling 6.9 per cent to $15.64 amid the additional investor pressure triggered by managerial changes....
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