Five things for pharma marketers to know:
- More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job, marking what is being called the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history.
- Novartis completed the spinoff of its generics and biosimilars business Sandoz, whose shares began trading at 24 Swiss francs in the early minutes of the company’s debut on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
- The Food and Drug Administration added another COVID-19 vaccine choice to the public health equation, approving reformulated Novavax shots for anyone age 12 and older.
- The 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.
- After calling Kansas City Chiefs tight end ‘Mr. Pfizer,’ fans reminded New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers that Woody Johnson, the team’s billionaire owner, is the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.
