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            <title><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Asked to Seek Special Coverage for Opdivo in U.K.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AstraZeneca’s Brilinta Fails to Beat Older Drug in Latest Trial]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 06:49:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boston Scientific to Buy Endoscopy Company in $210M Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:54:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Big Pharma’s Latest Breakthrough: Choosing Its First Female CEO]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crops Would Eclipse Drugs at Bayer After Monsanto Deal: Chart]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Horizon Buys Rare-Disease Company Raptor for $800 Million]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:25:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Departing Pharma CEOs Leave Waning Sales for Successors to Solve]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:34:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Novartis Dissolves Its Cell Therapy Unit, Cutting 120 Positions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mylan to Reduce EpiPen Costs as Political Pressure Mounts]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shrinking Talent Pool May Bind Biotechs After Brexit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:37:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anti-Obesity Injection Attracts More Patients Than Pills: Chart]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shire Persists With Drug for Premature Babies After Study Fails]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Medtronic Adds Heart Devices in $1.1 Billion HeartWare Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:54:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gilde Healthcare Raises $282 Million Fund With Philips, J&J]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zimmer Biomet to Buy LDR for $1 Billion, Adds Spine Devices]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:09:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Johnson & Johnson to Buy Vogue Hair Care for $3.3 Billion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:51:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mobile-Phone Link to Cancer Stirred Up by Rat Study Findings]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 16:05:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[米サーモフィッシャー、42億ドルで精密機器ＦＥＩ買収へ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 14:46:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thermo Fisher Scientific to Buy FEI for About $4.2 Billion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 11:07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roche Breast Cancer Drug Fails to Win U.K. Backing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Roche Holding AG logo sits on the edge of a medication box next to tablets on a pharmacy counter in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. European pharmaceuticals stocks in 2015 have outperformed the Stoxx 600 Index by 1.2 percentage points in U.S. dollar terms. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg</media:description>
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