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J&J Rides Standalone Consumer Health Track

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

J&J takes same approach GSK, Pfizer, Merck & Co, Merck and Novartis have with their consumer health businesses, Bausch Health is starting and Sanofi says it will.

• Source: Alamy

At this rate, before long the drug industry may not include any major firms that manufacture products marketed on both sides of the Rx and OTC divide.

With its announcement on 12 November to separate its consumer health business as a standalone, publicly traded company within two years, Johnson & Johnson is taking the same approach that GlaxoSmithKline plc, Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co., Inc

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