Organizational integration of acquired biotechnology companies in pharmaceutical companies: The need for a hybrid approach

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An analysis of the postacquisition integration of biotechnology companies by pharmaceutical companies addresses issues in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and includes five in-depth case studies. It is concluded that, pharmaceutical companies need to apply a hybrid postacquisition integration approach with simultaneous short- and long-term motives and segmentation at a different pace across different value chain components.

Acquisitions & mergers, Drugs, Operations Research, Biotechnology industry, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Biotechnology industries, Company acquisition/merger, Management research

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Critics say genetic study overstated breast-cancer risk

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A 2003 breast cancer that established a strong genetic link may have overstated this link, and therefore caused unnecessary worry among certain groups of women .

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Public affairs, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Administration of Public Health Programs, Ethics, Health Research Programs, Jews, Health aspects, Risk factors, Genetic aspects, Ethical aspects, Breast cancer, Medicine, Experimental

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New test may detect Parkinson's early, aid search for drugs

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Pfizer Corp. has developed a test that uses speech patterns to detect early-stage Parkinson's disease.

Analysis, Diagnosis, Pfizer Inc., Speech, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson disease, PFE

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