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UAE Scores with International Drugmakers

19.02.2016 - The United Arab Emirates is gaining popularity as a manufacturing base for pharmaceuticals, according to the country’s health ministry. Speaking to journalists at the recent Pharma...

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Pfizer Chases AstraZeneca for Potential $100 billion Deal

29.04.2014 - Pfizer is now expected to increase its $100 billion offer to acquire UK rival AstraZeneca after being rebuffed a second time. The company has confirmed that it approached its...

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Pfizer to Split Generic, Branded Drugs Units

30.07.2013 - Pfizer, in what could be the prelude to spinning off its generics drug business, said it plans to separate its commercial operations into two units, mainly for patent-protected...

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Teva, Sun Pharma to Pay $2.15 Billion to Settle Pfizer Patent Suit

12.06.2013 - Pfizer said Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries would pay $2.15 billion to settle a patent suit related to its acid-reflux drug. This is the first...

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Pfizer Takes its Shot at a Vaccine for Evasive Superbug

23.05.2013 - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the...

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US Foreign Bribery Penalties for Drugmakers May Lack Bite

29.10.2012 - Global drugmakers are paying tens of millions of dollars to settle U.S. allegations that they bribed their way across emerging markets, but harsher penalties may be needed to deter...

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Pfizer Settles Foreign Bribery Case with US Government

07.08.2012 - Pfizer has agreed to pay $60.2 million to settle a U.S. government probe of the drugmaker's alleged use of illegal payments to win business overseas, according to the U.S...

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Patent Cliff To Intensify in the U.S. in 2011

21.01.2011 - Pressures on the U.S. pharmaceutical industry has built over the past few years, stemming from an increasingly stringent drug regulatory environment and the global economic...