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Going digital: Binary choice or absolute necessity?

Nov. 7, 2018
By Cormac Sheridan
COPENHAGEN – A certain online Seattle retailer unexpectedly featured during a BIO-Europe panel discussion Tuesday on transformative deals in the pharma industry. In among the anecdotes and insights about the deals that enabled certain well-known drug assets to get to market – and that may in the future enable certain lesser known assets to follow – Amazon.com's entry into pharmaceutical distribution through its acquisition of the Boston-based online pharmacy Pillpack Inc. sparked some uneasy reflection.
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