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RSSSchering-Plough, the leading US drugs firm, has agreed to buy Akzo Nobel NV’s drugs unit Organon BioSciences for $14.4 billion in a bid to gain scale and diversify away from cholesterol medicine. The cash sale has marked last-minute reversal of...
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