Novo Nordisk to boost pill-form diabetic drugs with $1.8 billion deal

Novo Nordisk to boost pill-form diabetic drugs with $1.8 billion deal

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Reuters
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Diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk said on Friday it had agreed a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Emisphere Technologies, giving it control of a pill technology that it hopes will broaden sales to diabetics with an aversion to shots.