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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. (German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
Novartis is the world's first largest in life sciences and agribusiness markets. [6] It is also the second-largest pharmaceutical company by market cap in 2019. [127] Alcon: At the time Novartis bought Alcon, they had annual sales of $6.5 billion and a net income of $2 billion. [128]
In clinical trials, the median time to cessation of ear pain in Ciprodex was five days in a sample population of 909 participants. However, the clinical trial failed to demonstrate any significant benefit of using the combination of active ingredients in Ciprodex over ciprofloxacin alone, in regards to ear pain.
The European Commission has approved the intravitreal eye injection Jetrea, produced by Novartis eye care subsidiary Alcon, for treating vitreomacular traction in the European Union. The disease ...
This listing is limited to those independent companies and subsidiaries notable enough to have their own articles in Wikipedia. Both going concerns and defunct firms are included, as well as firms that were part of the pharmaceutical industry at some time in their existence, provided they were engaged in the production of human (as opposed to veterinary) therapeutics.
Shares of Novartis (NVS) soared higher on Wednesday, after the Swiss drug maker finally obtained the remaining outstanding shares of Alcon (ACL) for $12.9 billion. Novartis had been trying to gain ...
Nepafenac, sold under the brand name Nevanac among others, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), usually sold as a prescription eye drop 0.1% solution (Nevanac) or 0.3% solution (Ilevro). It is used to treat pain and inflammation associated with cataract surgery. [3] Nepafenac is a prodrug of amfenac, an inhibitor of COX-1 and COX-2 ...
Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. [4] Prior to October 2023, it was part of a division of Novartis that was established in 2003, when Novartis united all of its generics businesses under the name Sandoz. Before this, the company existed as an independent pharmaceutical manufacturer until ...