Allergan's Assets Could Diversify Pfizer's Neurology Portfolio
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
If Pfizer Inc. were to buy Allergan plc – or vice versa – the merged companies would have a large and actually quite diverse portfolio of drugs for central nervous system (CNS) diseases and conditions.
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