Business
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG announced a series of multibillion-dollar deals Tuesday with other major pharmaceutical companies that it said would reduce sales but boost profitability, while affecting some 15,000 of its employees globally.
April 22, 2014
World & Nation
Donor agencies now free to buy vaccine for poor countries.
Sept. 16, 2014
GlaxoSmithKline Plc is splitting into two companies and creating a consumer-health joint venture with Pfizer Inc. that will be the world’s biggest supplier of over-the-counter medicines with brands such as Advil and Panadol.
Dec. 19, 2018
Science & Medicine
Swine flu deaths rise to nearly 5,000, Glaxo says kids may only need 1 vaccine dose.
Nation Now
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Nov. 6, 2009
Technology and the Internet
With over 5 million customers, genetic testing firm 23andMe sits on a trove of human data it believes can help drugmakers develop treatments more efficiently in an industry where 90% of medicines on trial never reach market.
July 25, 2018
U.S. advisers recommend keeping diabetes drug Avandia on the market
July 14, 2010
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Oct. 30, 2006
AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest healthcare deal on record.
June 7, 2020
Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon are doubling down on their plea for corporations to stop providing quarterly earnings guidance.
June 7, 2018