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13 September 2021Big PharmaBen Wodecki

Bausch settles $300m antitrust case over diabetes drug price hikes

Canadian pharma firm Bausch Health has agreed to settle an antitrust suit where it was accused of holding an illegal monopoly on the diabetes drug Glumetza (metformin hcl).

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