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The country’s ongoing economic distress has produced layoffs in many industries, and pharma appears to be feeling the pain as well. <\/p>\n

Recent layoffs reported in the drug industry include Sanofi (650 sales reps);Novartis (550 U.S. salespersons);Merck (8,000); Wyeth (2,440); GSK (1,000); Schering-Plough (5,500);and Boehringer Ingelheim (200).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The country’s ongoing economic distress has produced layoffs in many industries, and pharma appears to be feeling the pain as well. 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