Genzyme's "Remarkable Business'Strategy" and Contaminated Drugs

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:42

In June, 2009, an article in the Boston Globe described how the Boston area based biotechnology company Genzyme sold some astonishlingly expensive drugs, using

a remarkable business strategy : In countries from Colombia to Taiwan to Libya, the Cambridge firm has compiled an extraordinary track record of searching out patients like Tania, providing desperately needed treatment, and then successfully pressing their governments, even poor ones, to pay full price for the most expensive drugs in the...


 

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