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Merger Madness

Mar 17, 2009

As everyone is busy filling out their March Madness Brackets (and hoping that Duke loses), the Health Blog at the Wall Street Journal has come up with a bracket of their own, seeding pharmas against one another. Some of the results are already in -- Pfizer's taken down Wyeth and Roche's beaten Genentech -- but the winner of the "merger mania" isn't yet clear.

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