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...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....
...Humira has stretched government budgets all around the world: Abbott’s successor AbbVie was this week accused by a public interest group in the Netherlands of making excess profits of €1.2bn there....
...This has involved taking on a broad remit in areas from health and safety to the environment and aviation....
...Barr at Merck said the safety profile of molnupiravir was “very strong” and many governments had expressed interest in acquiring supplies of it in order to combat Covid....
...About 4,000 jobs are to go as part of a restructuring of the division....
...Jerry Avorn, who heads the division of pharmacoepidemiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, believes it was mostly the marketing to doctors that made Subsys “lethal”....
...This treatment and its derivatives contributed sales of £3.7bn in 2015, almost one-third of the earnings of the global pharmaceuticals division....
...But he remained alert to further deal opportunities as a year-long surge of mergers and acquisitions continues to roil the sector....
...In those days ICI was one of the few British manufacturing companies active in recruiting graduates, and the pharmaceutical division hired a team of able young scientists....
...In a nod to long-running criticisms of Mr Vasella’s pay, notably by Swiss investors, the board said on Wednesday that “in order to further align with the interests of shareholders and to foster long-term...
...This compares well to generics deals over the last five years which have mostly been at about 14-15 times ebitda, and the 13.3 times multiple Teva paid in 2008 for its $7.5bn acquisition of US-based Barr...
...Teva already controls 18 per cent of the global market, following its $7.5bn takeover of Barr Pharmaceuticals of the US in 2008....
...A short stint in the financial services industry followed when she became a partner of Lazard Frères in Paris in 1995, before moving on to Alcatel in 1997 to oversee its energy and nuclear interests....
...at $89.50 per share is in the best interests of our shareholders”, he said....
...Clinton had already attended a Microsoft conference and dinner in Cape Town, and now Gates joins us in Durban, where he is funding tests of experimental microbicides - gels applied by women before sex to...
...It sold its UK operations last year to focus on its US women's health and dermatology products and its senior executives are based in the US....
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