Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, said it plans to buy all of Alliance Boots for about $15.3 billion and wont use the deal to move its tax address abroad.
A gap in U.S. patent law has kept cheap copies of Novartis AGs heart drug Diovan off the market for 18 months, costing consumers and insurers as much as $900 million in potential savings.
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