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Sanofi-Aventis to buy Genzyme for $20.1 bln cash

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 02/16/2011 - 03:45

PARIS (AP) -- French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA has agreed to buy Genzyme Corp. in a sweetened all-cash deal that values the U.S. biotechnology company at $20.1 billion, ending months of corporate haggling....


 

FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 15:23

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues....