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...Pegasus has similarly increased its capacity despite the pandemic by building its fleet....
Japan is a pioneer of combining retail outlets with pharmacies and support services for ageing shoppers
...Apple has issued an emergency software update after being warned that a previously unknown vulnerability allowed Israel’s NSO Group to inject its Pegasus spyware remotely and surreptitiously on to iPhones...
...India has previously been accused of deploying Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli group NSO, triggering a political scandal when the hacking tool was found on the phones of journalists and activists in...
...CVS Health, the largest pharmacy chain in the US, in 2018 acquired Aetna for $69bn and Cigna combined with Express Scripts in a $67bn deal, including debt....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Brewer, one of the few African-American women to run a company in the S&P 500, arrived as pharmacy chains were being boosted by the strong early uptake of Covid-19 vaccines....
...Apple last week issued an emergency software update after a previously unknown vulnerability allowed Israel’s NSO Group to inject its Pegasus spyware remotely and surreptitiously on to iPhones and iPads....
...It also restored the Paris Theater in New York, preventing it from suffering the indignity of being turned into a chain pharmacy....
...Same-store sales at its pharmacies, however, rose 9.8 per cent ahead of estimates of 8.8 per cent, partly thanks to higher prices....
...The FTC’s detailed opposition to the Horizon deal focuses on so-called pharmacy benefit managers. These businesses determine which drug prescriptions are eligible for health insurance reimbursement....
...The FTC had contended that Amgen could get buyers such as health insurers or pharmacy benefit managers to favour Horizon’s drugs by bundling them with its own best-selling medicines....
...Its — untested — argument is that Amgen could use rebates on its blockbusters to encourage insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to favour Horizon’s drugs....
...However, the FTC’s case against Amgen is targeted at the power the company allegedly wields more broadly with health insurers and middlemen in the US healthcare system, known as pharmacy benefit managers...
...The FTC argued that Amgen could use the rebates it pays on its “blockbuster” drugs to press insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers into paying for two of Horizon’s medicines: Tepezza for an autoimmune...
...It required the six largest pharmacy benefit managers, which negotiate fees and rebates with drug manufacturers, to share information on their business practices....
...Amgen said it would offer its biologic treatment, named Amjevita, to US health insurers and middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers through two pricing plans....
...In 2014 it bought the Co-operative Group’s pharmacy business for £620mn....
...That was despite pharmacy sales falling almost 7 per cent as demand slipped for Covid-19 services such as vaccines....
...The Future Fund has also taken stakes in advanced materials group Oxford Nanosystems, biotech firm Roslin Technologies, online pharmacy Phlo Technologies, Magnitude Biosciences, a life sciences company,...
...This includes a large pharmacy benefit management business and a leading health insurance division. Walgreens remains overly dependent on its nearly 9,000 stores in the US....
...troubles EY gets fined for cheating Boots proves too bitter a pill to swallow After taking Alliance Boots private at the apex of the buyout bubble in 2007, KKR ultimately salvaged the deal by selling the pharmacy...
...Finding and assessing prospects in the pharma market takes time, according to Denton, an experienced dealmaker who when working as chief financial officer at pharmacy giant CVS in 2018 oversaw its $68bn...
...Weeks after announcing negotiations on similar settlements with the pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens, New York attorney-general Letitia James said such retailers had “played an undeniable role in perpetuating...
...News of the deal comes months after Walgreens was forced to abandon its planned sale of the Boots pharmacy chain in the UK after struggling to draw interest from buyers, a move it blamed on market conditions...
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