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AmerisourceBergen, a Valley Forge, Pa.-based wholesale drug distribution and services company, plans to sell its contract packaging business to an investor group for $308 million in cash.
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India's top court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis' attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive sales and a victory for local makers of cheap generics.
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A one-room shack with a single, bare light bulb on a nondescript Beijing side street is 29-year-old Chinese migrant worker Zhang Xuefang's best recourse to medical care. Not recognized as a Beijing resident, she does not qualify for cheaper healthcare at government hospitals, and her hometown is...
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Private insurers in the U.S. last year paid significantly more—up to 25 times as much in one case—for common procedures, hospital and doctor visits and prescriptions when compared with private and public insurers in 10 other countries, a report shows.
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A lot can change in a year. Last March, Walgreen Co. was simply a domestic drugstore chain. Today, the Deerfield, Ill.-based company is part of an international juggernaut through a partnership with Europe's leading pharmacy chain Alliance Boots GmbH and, with a new 10-year deal with drug...
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In signing a 10-year deal with drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp. and mulling the possibility of taking up to a 23% equity stake in the company, Walgreen Co. is inching closer to becoming a vertically integrated drug dispenser, a spokesman confirmed.
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A medical school partnership between Ochsner Health System and an Australian university has graduated its first nine students.
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Over half of U.S. hospitals with formal programs aimed at international patients saw demand grow between 2009 and 2011.
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Mobile technologies are changing the way healthcare is consumed and delivered in America, paving the way for greater consumer engagement, reduced costs and better patient outcomes. Driving the trend is the growing prevalence of smartphones and tablets, which have empowered consumers like never...
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The six biggest U.S. drugmakers avoided paying $7 billion in U.S. taxes last year by shifting their profits overseas, almost double what they saved that way 10 years earlier.
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