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Special Report—The top 10 vaccine companies worldwide

Johnson & Johnson signals job cuts amid consumer health separation, inflation pressure

J&J, flush with blood cancer assets, cuts one from the pipeline

Roche recalls new eye therapy Susvimo on leakage fears, aims for market return 'within a year or so'

Philips’ CPAP and BiPAP mask recall stretches to 22M devices, lands Class I FDA label

Prosecutor confirms probe into Europe's COVID-19 vaccine purchasing

Biogen's ALS ambitions on pause as FDA delays approval decision by 3 months

J&J sets sights on $60B in pharma sales by 2025, targets 8 brands to deliver growth

Alcon, J&J Vision settle for $75M in contact lens price-fixing case

AstraZeneca, FibroGen's roxadustat holds promise for sickle cell disease

AstraZeneca, tapping into sustainability issues, launches 'Science Can' campaign

‘The Top Line': Pfizer takes kickback lawsuit to the Supreme Court

 

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The top 10 vaccine companies worldwide

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Johnson & Johnson signals job cuts amid consumer health separation, inflation pressure

In perhaps the most indirect way, Johnson & Johnson is warning about layoffs ahead. As the company is about to bid farewell to consumer health, it's looking at the opportunity to "rightsize" the infrastructure, CFO Joe Wolk said.

J&J, flush with blood cancer assets, cuts one from the pipeline

J&J has axed an early-stage blood cancer asset amid a shifting of the company's phase 1 roster. It comes as two additional hematological assets were added to the pipeline.

Roche recalls new eye therapy Susvimo on leakage fears, aims for market return 'within a year or so'

Just as doctors were starting to cozy up to Roche and Genentech’s new eye drug delivery therapy, the companies are pulling the product from market.

Philips’ CPAP and BiPAP mask recall stretches to 22M devices, lands Class I FDA label

Just a few weeks after racking up its fifth Class I recall from the FDA this year, Philips has hit the half-dozen mark.

Prosecutor confirms probe into Europe's COVID-19 vaccine purchasing

Europe is bringing out the big guns to sort out the EU's COVID-19 vaccine deals. The European Public Prosecutor's Office has confirmed an ongoing investigation into the acquisition of the coronavirus vaccines following "extremely high" public interest.

Biogen's ALS ambitions on pause as FDA delays approval decision by 3 months

The long and winding road Biogen’s tofersen has taken to FDA approval just got longer, with the agency delaying its decision on the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis drug until April.

J&J sets sights on $60B in pharma sales by 2025, targets 8 brands to deliver growth

With $13.2 billion in pharma sales this quarter, $60 billion in pharma sales by 2025 might seem like a lofty goal. But the company is standing by the projection, citing eight key brands during its third-quarter earnings conference call.

Alcon, J&J Vision settle for $75M in contact lens price-fixing case

More than half a decade after it began, a class-action lawsuit accusing several contact lens manufacturers of anticompetitive price fixing has finally come to a close.

AstraZeneca, tapping into sustainability issues, launches 'Science Can' campaign

Big Pharma companies are huge behemoths that span the globe, employ thousands of people and run hundreds of buildings, trial sites, offices and HQs.

AstraZeneca, FibroGen's roxadustat holds promise for sickle cell disease

The finding opens the door to the use of proline hydroxylase inhibitors to treat beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease.
 
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