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UK: Swine Flu ‘Backlash’ Continues

By Julian Upton | Published: August 11, 2009
Barely two weeks after the pricing and profit margins of Big Pharma’s swine flu vaccines and anti-virals were the subject of the critical spotlight in the UK media, Roche’s Tamiflu (oseltamivir) has come under scrutiny, fuelled by articles in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and The Lancet Infectious Diseases questioning the drug’s effectiveness in young [...]
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GSK to Cut 1,800 Sales Positions (Updated)

By George Koroneos | Published: November 5, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline, today, announced that it is restructuring its US pharmaceutical sales organization. The plan will include elimination of 1,800 sales rep positions by year end. The cuts will affect approximately 1,000 employees and an undetermined number of support staff. A spokesperson told Pharm Exec that some reps will be moved to the company’s expanding vaccine [...]
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