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...“As a councillor in a ward that suffers from areas of multiple deprivation — where poverty affects one in three children — I cannot indulge,” Mr Malone wrote....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...In the Wyeth case, this would be shared with another whistleblower, Lauren Kieff, a former sales representative for AstraZeneca, a rival of Pfizer’s....
...He initially showed little interest in megamergers of the kind Pfizer carried out in the prior decade with Wyeth and Warner-Lambert....
...However, a Pfizer-Allergan tie-up, would be the first full-scale combination between two top-20 pharma groups since Pfizer bought Wyeth and Merck acquired Schering-Plough in 2009....
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...Since 2000, the company has spent more than $200bn on the acquisition of Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia and Wyeth. Yet, the deals have done little to improve the underlying trend....
...For Pfizer, a deal would add to its history of megamergers, including its $69bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009 and its $111.8bn deal with Warner-Lambert in 2000....
...Some analysts have expressed puzzlement over Pfizer’s move, which seems at odds with Mr Read’s efforts in recent years to slim down the group after a series of megadeals such as its $69bn takeover of Wyeth...
...In the five years since Pfizer bought Wyeth, it has cut about half the total research and development spending made by the two companies the year before the deal....
...Pfizer has a history of big acquisitions, such as its $68bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009 and its $56bn deal with Pharmacia in 2002....
...A year before, Pfizer had bought Wyeth, a rival drugmaker, for $68bn. It was the latest in a succession of large deals that greatly increased Pfizer’s scale but had done little for shareholder returns....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Jo Hayes Ward uses 3D printing to create the moulds for her gold jewellery. The pixellated look is a coincidence, she says: it comes from her love of building larger pieces out of small elements....
...Dubai, which received a $20bn bail-out from the United Arab Emirates and its capital Abu Dhabi to ward off default in 2009, earlier this year completed a $25bn restructuring of troubled conglomerate Dubai...
...Pfizer, the drugs group, added to the tally saying jobs would be lost in its takeover of Wyeth....
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
...Second, I cannot see a way around the developing world V rich world problem....
...IBM deal will help Lenovo become the global market leader, the sceptics were partly vindicated when in December 2005 – less than eight months after the takeover – Lenovo replaced its American CEO, Steve Ward...
...Additional reporting by Andrew Ward...
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