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  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    Infant formula producers probed by FTC over bids for contracts

    Inquiry by US regulator focuses on whether manufacturers colluded in relation to programme for low-income families

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  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    US retail
    US baby formula crisis spurs debate over lack of competition

    Shortage following Abbott safety scandal draws scrutiny of sector dominated by just two companies

    Low supplies and empty shelves of baby formula at a Walmart in Carmel, Indiana, on May 14 2022
  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Lex
    Baby formula: US shortage highlights industry concentration Premium content

    Crisis points to the vulnerability of a supply chain dominated by too few producers

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  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    Tests can help get workers back to the office

    A fresh push on fast and reliable Covid diagnostics is needed to supplement the vaccine effect

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    LexCoronavirus treatment
    Coronavirus testing: false positives Premium content

    Investors are better off putting their money on test makers rather than test processors

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    WHO to offer 120m cheap coronavirus tests to developing world

    The $5 kit can confirm in as little as 15 minutes whether someone has Covid-19

    A nurse performs a swab test for Covid-19 on a health worker at a clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, in May
  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    Coronavirus
    UK antibody test access stokes frustration and confusion

    Consumers and doctors eager to understand who has immunity face uncertainty over testing and reliability

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Free NHS antibody tests on way after Roche and Abbott Labs deals

    And trials of 20-minute swab test to determine coronavirus infection will start next week

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    Will antibody tests be our passport to normality? | Free to read

    David Crow on the complications — and consequences — of testing for coronavirus immunity

    BGUK_1931785 - Italy, ITALY - COVID-19 serological tests for individuals, microbiology and virology analysis laboratory of the PST - Scientific and Technological Pole, MultiMedica Group. Up to 400 tests per day are analyzed in the laboratory to confirm the presence of antibodies in the blood. Blood samples Pictured: GV, General View BACKGRID UK 14 MAY 2020 BYLINE MUST READ: IPA / BACKGRID UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com *UK Clients - Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Abbott joins Roche in winning UK approval for virus antibody test

    Public Health England gives green light to second diagnostic kit to detect past infection and potential immunity

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Coronavirus
    FDA warns on rapid virus test used by White House

    ‘Early data’ show analysis might be returning false negative results in almost half of cases

  • Monday, 30 March, 2020
    Coronavirus
    J&J and Abbott flag potential vaccine and rapid test

    US healthcare groups bring hope in race to fight coronavirus pandemic

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    AbbVie makes peace with Amgen over Humira patents
  • Friday, 14 April, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    Abbott revises $5.3bn Alere deal to end legal spat

    US medical device makers end protracted legal dispute with deal at reduced price

    Abbott Laboratories Buys Piramal's India Unit For $3.72 Billion...Abbott Laboratories signage stands on the campus of its headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, May 21, 2010. Abbott Laboratories will buy Piramal Healthcare Ltd.'s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.72 billion, becoming the country's biggest drugmaker and tapping into a market expected to more than double by 2015. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 16 September, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    J&J buys Abbott Medical for $4.3bn in eye surgery push
  • Thursday, 1 September, 2016
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    Abbott Labs/Alere: before and after

    There is an awkward dance between signing a deal and closing it

    This July 29, 2015 photo shows a sign at the Abbott Laboratories campus in Abbott Park, Ill. Abbott Laboratories will buy St. Jude Medical Inc. in a cash-stock deal that aims to strengthen the medical device maker's share of the market for cardiovascular care. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT CHICAGO TRIBUNE; CHICAGO SUN-TIMES OUT; DAILY HERALD OUT; NORTHWEST HERALD OUT; THE HERALD-NEWS OUT; DAILY CHRONICLE OUT; THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
  • Thursday, 25 August, 2016
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    Muddy Waters-St Jude: heart attack

    Despite a series of good bets, the hedge fund’s short call on devices maker is challenged

    An artificial pacemaker (serial number 1723182) from St. Jude Medical, with electrode.
  • Thursday, 25 August, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Muddy Waters claims device maker vulnerable to hackers

    Hedge fund uses alleged cyber flaws to a stock falling.put pressure on St Jude Medical

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  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Pfizer chief plays down prospect of split

    Ian Read says case for drugmaker’s break-up has become ‘more complicated’ in recent months

    A worker tests a liquid chemical inside of a laboratory at the Pfizer Inc. research and development facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Pfizer is expected to report quarterly earnings on October 27. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2016
    Private equity
    Private equity closes in on $7.5bn deal for MultiPlan
  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Quintiles and IMS jump on the M&A bandwagon

    Merger of US groups will create $18bn clinical trials and data specialist

    health apps healthcare mobile
  • Friday, 29 April, 2016
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    M&A: back with a bang

    Cash-rich corporates are in the vanguard

    This July 29, 2015 photo shows a sign at the Abbott Laboratories campus in Abbott Park, Ill. Abbott Laboratories will buy St. Jude Medical Inc. in a cash-stock deal that aims to strengthen the medical device maker's share of the market for cardiovascular care. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT CHICAGO TRIBUNE; CHICAGO SUN-TIMES OUT; DAILY HERALD OUT; NORTHWEST HERALD OUT; THE HERALD-NEWS OUT; DAILY CHRONICLE OUT; THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Three pharma deals worth $45bn reignite M&A boom

    Abbott, AbbVie and Sanofi announce separate purchases, taking 2016 transactions to $121bn

    Gel capsules pass through a sorting machine on the production line at a Sanofi-Aventis SA factory in Compiegne, France
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Abbott to buy St Jude in $25bn deal

    Acquisition of medical devices group resumes pharma merger spree

    This July 29, 2015 photo shows a sign at the Abbott Laboratories campus in Abbott Park, Ill. Abbott Laboratories will buy St. Jude Medical Inc. in a cash-stock deal that aims to strengthen the medical device maker's share of the market for cardiovascular care. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT CHICAGO TRIBUNE; CHICAGO SUN-TIMES OUT; DAILY HERALD OUT; NORTHWEST HERALD OUT; THE HERALD-NEWS OUT; DAILY CHRONICLE OUT; THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2016
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    AbbVie to acquire Stemcentrx in $5.8bn deal
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