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Pfizer Appeals UK Fine Over NHS Hike

20.02.2017 - US drugs giant Pfizer has challenged the record £84 million fine imposed by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for a supply scheme that resulted in a 2,600% price...

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Pfizer Joins Milner Therapeutics Consortium

30.01.2017 - US-based Pfizer is the latest major drugmaker to join Milner Therapeutics Consortium, a global therapeutic alliance that is essentially a “match-making” service between...

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J&J Clinches Actelion for $30 Billion

27.01.2017 - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has won its battle to acquire Swiss biotechnology firm Actelion. The deal announced on Jan. 26 foresees the New Jersey, USA-based healthcare company...

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Pharma Stocks Crash on Trump Pricing Hints

13.01.2017 - American drugmakers, who had hoped US President-Elect Donald Trump would go easier on the industry than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had promised to do, received an...

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Pfizer and IBM in e-Health Alliance

19.12.2016 - Major US drugmaker Pfizer will use IBM Watson Health’s artificial intelligence technology to help in its efforts to find new cancer medicines. The deal will use the Watson for Drug...

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Johnson & Johnson Quits Actelion Bid

15.12.2016 - Johnson & Johnson has withdrawn from the running for Actelion Pharmaceuticals, leaving the path clear for another buyer, which multiple reports say is Sanofi. The US healthcare...

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Lonza Confirms Talks With Capsugel

13.12.2016 - Swiss fine chemicals producer and contract manufacturer Lonza has confirmed a “strong interest” in acquiring Capsugel, a Morristown, New Jersey, USA-based producer of capsules used...

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Pfizer Fined Record Sum for UK Overpricing

08.12.2016 - US pharmaceutical major Pfizer has been fined a record £84.2 million by the UK’s competition authority for overcharging the National Health Service (NHS) for an anti-epilepsy drug...