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Weekly Top News
Tue, 28 May 2019
Drug Pricing Reform Survey Results

Colleagues,

The results are in; our industries perspectives on the many of the ideas being offered to reduce drug prices. Please remember we ran a survey asking for your input on the drug pricing reform ideas being offered by the executive branch, congress, citizen groups and our industry. I found the results very interesting and will be publishing a white paper within a few weeks. Thank you for your input - Enjoy!

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Strategic M&A Perspectives - Editor’s choice
1. Precision medicine as a way to improve oncology care — and potentially drive down drug costs
2. Medical devices industry M&A deals in April 2019 total $486.68m globally
3. Pharma industry M&A deals in April 2019 total $4.1bn globally
4. 2018 Year in Review: Top 10 medical device regulatory issues in Canada
M&A News and Activity
5. Apple bought a start-up that was working on monitoring asthma in children
6. Medtronic CEO points to M&A ‘firepower,’ new products as diabetes sales drop
7. Merck buys Peloton to expand its kidney cancer treatment portfolio
8. Varian Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Cancer Treatment Services International
9. India’s Pharma & Healthcare Market to 2023
10. Nuvi Acquires Social Healthcare Leader Banyan
11. Catalent Completes Acquisition of Gene Therapy Leader Paragon Bioservices, Inc. for $1.2 Billion
12. Amryt Pharma : to expand rare disease portfolio with $311m Aegerion merger
13. ICON’s Acquisition Of MeDiNova Research
14. Evotec SE to Acquire Just Biotherapeutics, Inc.
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About Ed Francis
DistilNFO's Executive Editor & Industry Strategist.
Ed is the Managing Partner and CEO of HLS Transformation Partners a company dedicated to helping health and Life Sciences companies move from strategy to business outcomes. Ed has more than 25 years of strategy, analytics, and transformation experience guiding and doing the work to help some of the industry’s most prominent organizations achieve their goals.

If you need help driving business outcomes, whether it be complex transformation, M&A, digital enablement, operations improvement and technology enablement Ed can be contacted at edfrancis@HLSTransformationPartners.com or by phone at 1-847-910-6073

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