{"id":43866,"date":"2023-03-15T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43866"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:40:04","slug":"pfizer-agrees-to-buy-seagen-for-43-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43866","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer Agrees to Buy Seagen for $43 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seagen holds a desirable portfolio of \u201cpioneering class of targeted cancer drugs\u201d designed for use when other cancer treatments fail. Pfizer\u2019s president appears desperately focused on cancer these days, for some reason:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOncology continues to be the largest growth driver in global medicine, and this acquisition will enhance Pfizer\u2019s position in this important space and contribute meaningfully to the achievement of Pfizer\u2019s near- and long-term financial goals,\u201d Chief Executive Albert Bourla said.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, cancer-related treatments will \u201ccontribute meaningfully\u201d to Pfizer\u2019s NEAR-TERM financial goals. I wonder what those could near-term concerns might be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seagen holds a desirable portfolio of \u201cpioneering class of targeted cancer drugs\u201d designed for use when other cancer treatments fail. Pfizer\u2019s president appears desperately focused on cancer these days, for some reason: \u201cOncology continues to be the largest growth driver in global medicine, and this acquisition will enhance Pfizer\u2019s position in this important space and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pfizer Agrees to Buy Seagen for $43 Billion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43867,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866\/revisions\/43867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}