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Alcon Inc. 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]
Medical malpractice payouts are ballooning—and insurers are warning it will cost patients. From 2013 to 2023, the American court system saw a roughly 67% increase in the number of medical ...
Pfizer: Off-label promotion of Bextra, Geodon, Zyvox and Lyrica, September 2009. In what was the largest pharmaceutical settlement in U.S. history at the time, Pfizer reached a $2.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve criminal charges and civil claims under the False Claims Act.
Novartis created a new division and called it Alcon, under which it placed its CIBA VISION subsidiary and Novartis Ophthalmics, which became the second-largest division of Novartis. The total cost for Alcon amounted to $60 billion. 2011–present. In 2011, Novartis acquired the medical laboratory diagnostics company Genoptix to "serve as a ...
The total cost to Novartis for the 77% stake in Alcon was $38.7 billion ($168 per share). In the deal's first phase, Novartis acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestlé for $10.4 billion in July 2008.
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 ...
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.
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