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Sanofi prevails over Boehringer Ingelheim in legal battle over Zantac liabilities

Fierce Pharma

When Sanofi made an asset swap with Boehringer Ingelheim in 2016, the French company acquired BI’s healthcare business, which included heartburn medicine Zantac. | In an asset swap with Boehringer in 2016, Sanofi gained U.S. marketing rights to the treatment.

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Pfizer settles gender pay discrimination allegations at NYC headquarters

Fierce Pharma

The accusations centered on the company's compensation of 86 female employees in 2015 and 2016. Department of Labor that it underpaid certain women who were employed at the company’s New York City headquarters. |

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Bluebird taps Lonza to boost manufacturing capacity for its gene therapies Zynteglo, Skysona

Fierce Pharma

Bluebird and Lonza recently amended their production contract for the second time since the deal was announced in summer of 2016. As bluebird bio’s pricey gene therapy launches take flight, the company is boosting manufacturing capacity with Swiss CDMO Lonza.

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Sandoz hitches its wagon to biosimilars, predicting $3B in sales from pipeline products over next 5 years

Fierce Pharma

Novartis’ generics and biosimilars unit Sandoz—soon to be spun off as a stand-alone company—has seen a decline | Novartis’ generics and biosimilars unit Sandoz—soon to be spun off as a stand-alone company—has seen a decline in revenue every year since 2016.

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Social medical: The social media buzz around ASCO 2016

pharmaphorum

As a snapshot, 2014 saw 40,000 tweets and 140m+ impressions over the conference days, 2015 grew to 60,000 tweets and 250m+ impressions and the 2016 buzz is already louder and more plentiful than last year.

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Pharma is big business whose goal is to maximize shareholder value

World of DTC Marketing

From 2016 to 2020, the 14 leading drug companies spent $577 billion on stock buybacks and dividends—$56 billion more than they spent on R&D over the same period.” ” From 2016 to 2020, compensation for the 14 companies’ top executives totaled $3.2 The drug industry is driven by profits, not by patient’s needs.

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The Top Sales Coaching Posts of 2016

The Brooks Group

Check out these popular sales coaching posts from 2016. Implementing an effective coaching program optimized for coaching quality and quantity can help grow revenue up to 16.7% So you probably agree that sales coaching is important, but what exactly does high quality sales coaching look like? .

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