As part of a court-appointed mediator’s proposed plan, cigarette manufacturers Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Japan Tobacco will pay C$32.5 billion ($23.6 billion) to
Category: Health
J&J bolsters its MedTech unit with a $13b Shockwave deal.
By spending almost $13 billion to acquire Shockwave Medical, a company that develops technologies to assist open blocked arteries, Johnson & Johnson is increasing its
Gottesman’s widow donates $1b to a New York medical school, the highest on record.
Samuel Woo, a first-year student, was thinking about going into cardiology so he could pay off his medical school debt, but last week he learned
Drugmaker Bristol Myers Squibb to boost neuroscience portfolio with acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics in $14b deal
In a $14 billion transaction, pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb will purchase biopharmaceutical startup Karuna Therapeutics, which has created a novel antipsychotic. Karuna and Bristol
AbbVie Pharmaceuticals diversifies into ovarian cancer drug with the acquisition of ImmunoGen for $10.1b.
To expedite the pharmaceutical company’s entry into the ovarian cancer therapy market, AbbVie is purchasing ImmunoGen in a deal estimated to be worth $10.1 billion.
Amgen acquires Horizon therapeutics in a $27.8b deal, despite anticompetitive concerns.
The $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics by Amgen was finalized on Friday, according to the company, after receiving the go-ahead from the U.S. Federal
Climate change: Combating AIDS, TB, and malaria hampered by extreme weather and conflict.
The chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has warned that climate change and violence are hampering efforts to combat three
UK hospital services to collapse as thousands of senior doctors join their juniors on another 5-day strike.
In the midst of an ongoing salary dispute between doctors and the British government, senior doctors in England are expected to go on another 48-hour
UK’s 75,000 doctors embark on 5th round of strike at the cost of $1.27b.
Tens of thousands of physicians in England started a four-day strike on Friday amid mounting worries that their contentious pay dispute with the British government
The US healthcare industry emerges as the most violent sector due to gun attacks on medics.
Last month, a visitor to the maternity department in an Oregon hospital caused a disturbance, prompting nurses to issue a warning that the guy might
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