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How the world went from no COVID vaccines to two in under a year

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First identified in 1545, smallpox ravaged humanity for centuries, spreading rapidly from India through Europe and into the New World. Smallpox is estimated to have killed 300–500 million people in the 20th century alone. But thanks to an unprecedent...

AstraZeneca Signs $700 Million Cancer Drug Deal with Inovio

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AstraZeneca is going places. The large corporation has settled its cancer drug project. Now it has sole rights over an immune boosting medicine which it bought from Inovio. Inovio gets $27.5 million...

Sanofi Buys Rare Cancer Drug for up to $300 Million from AstraZeneca

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Sanofi is making some deals that the chief executive of the company Pascal Soriot is arguing as a potential threat to the company’s financial state but Sanofi believes that buying the drugs that are...

Two Generic and Inexpensive Drugs Can Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths

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Studies published in "The Lancet" claim that two inexpensive and generic drugs can significantly reduce the recurrence of breast cancer in postmenopausal women and can decrease the death rate.The...

AstraZeneca spurns Pfizer’s Massive Offer

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AstraZeneca deftly turned away an offer that many others probably wouldn’t have been able to resist. The $117 billion being given for a merger of the two companies by Pfizer was rejected. The...