PDI Inc., Upper Saddle River, N.J., which markets medicines for drug makers, agreed to buy closely held Pharmakon, Schaumburg, Ill., for at least $30 million in cash as it seeks to expand its biotechnology business.
Amgen, Inc. is a biotechnology medicines company, which discovers, develops, manufactures and markets medicines for grievous illnesses.
Alkermes, which makes systems that introduce drugs into the body, already owned a 20% stake in Reliant; the latter markets medicines like Novartis' Leschol XL.
Regeneron markets medicines for eye diseases, colorectal cancer and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including hypercholesterolemia, oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and atopic dermatitis.
And there are the doctors who practice a sort of black-market medicine in which they operate in state facilities, but charge their own little tolls.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, not known in the past for favoring strong pro-market medicine for Iran's ailing economy, has presented the measure as a matter of economic justice.
But at the same time the electorate denied a majority to his conservative challenger, Angela Merkel, who had advocated even stronger free-market medicine.
Everyone at least, everyone outside the executive suite seemed to agree that corporate America was due for a dose of market medicine.
To the reformers who now dominate its governments, that is evidence that their often painful pro-market medicine is at last working.
Everyone — at least, everyone outside the executive suite — seemed to agree that corporate America was due for a dose of market medicine.
