Drugs firm agrees price-fixing payout
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Media & professional: A British firm agrees to pay Â£4m to NHS over alleged price-fixing of medicine.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--GSK to pay billions to IRS   GlaxoSmithKline got the tax man off its back.   The drug maker agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to settle a 16-year dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Investors reward the drugmaker for positive study results.
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A deal between the government and the pharmaceutical industry to cut branded drug prices by an overall 7% will save the NHS in Scotland Â£49m a year, the Scottish Executive said yesterday.
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Passengers cheated in price-fixing scam will receive $200m compensation after airlines agree settlement
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Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to pay $10 million to the state to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin in West Virginia.
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Merck, the beleaguered US pharmaceuticals group, could be forced to pay out as much as $18bn (Â£9.7bn) over 10 years as a result of lawsuits linked to Vioxx, its controversial arthritis drug.
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Northern Irish drug maker Warner Chilcott has received a bid approach worth 837 pence per share which values the company at 1.53 billion pounds.
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The worldâs largest maker of memory chips settled civil charges that it conspired with six other makers of computer chips to fix prices.
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Merck agreed to pay a Swiss company, Addex Pharmaceuticals, as much as $702 million to help develop a new schizophrenia drug.
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The knee and ankle brace maker said it agreed to be bought by the medical device maker ReAble Therapeutics for about $1.6 billion including debt.
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Merck &amp; Co. Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $2.3 billion to resolve several tax disputes, the Internal Revenue Service said.
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The company has earned its nosebleed valuation.
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Business & money: Â·  Payout comes despite claims of price-fixing Â·  Airline cites 'contractual obligations' for move
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Medarex Inc., a Princeton, NJ, biotechnology company, could receive up to $510 million under a global collaboration deal it signed with New York-based Pfizer Inc.
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The medical products and services company agreed to pay $600 million to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders accusing it of accounting irregularities and inflated earnings.