The Johnson & Johnson logo is displayed outside the company’s headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ Bloomberg News Johnson & Johnson on Thursday announced their top AAA credit ratings to borrow $ 7.5 billion in cheap financing for their acquisition of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. J&J, which makes drugs, consumables and medical …
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Text size Data from BioNTech and Pfizer were particularly promising. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images After a hiatus from a late summer break, the news of a Covid-19 vaccine is heating up again as a handful of leading programs are rapidly moving to a decisive phase. Reports from several companies …
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Johnson & Johnson plans to launch in late September what may be the largest clinical trial to date against a coronavirus vaccine, enrolling up to 60,000 people worldwide to test whether the experimental shot safely protects against Covid-19. The targeted enrollment, reported on a government database and confirmed by the …
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States are asking for about $ 26.4 billion from major players in pharmaceutical industry to help pay for damages caused by the opioid crisis, people familiar with the matter said, the latest question in years of litigation that companies are trying to responsible for widespread drug addiction. The current talks …
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(Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Getty Images Text size Here’s what you need to know about the impact of Covid-19 to navigate the markets today. • President Donald Trump said Friday that McKesson would work with the U.S. government to spread a coronavirus vaccine if one is approved. …
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