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• This amendment to Mallinckrodt's business separation plans highlights improving fortunes for its Specialty Generics segment.
• Increasing revenues from sales of Amitiza will help to bolster the Specialty Brands segment, which remains the larger of the two segments, but which has seen revenues falter in recent quarters.
• The Specialty

Alzheimer's Research UK is to fund a clinical trial at King's College London investigating a cannabis-based treatment for people living with dementia. The charity is committing nearly GBP300,000 (USD398,883) for a Phase II trial of GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex (nabiximols), a cannabis-based medicine licensed in the UK for the treatment of muscle

The UK parliament voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘Brexit Deal’ by 432 votes to 202, marking the largest margin since 1924. Following the crushing defeat, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a vote of no confidence, which could trigger an early election. Our team in Europe will follow up with more details, but at first glance

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• The defeat of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement, by a record margin, means there are now three Brexit options left on the table: no deal Brexit, a second referendum, and a soft Brexit.
• The government is likely to win the vote of no confidence to be held on January 16, but this offers little respite, with the

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• UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal is on course to be defeated in a House of Commons vote on 15 January.
• Last minute assurances from the EU regarding the Northern Ireland backstop and pleas from the UK government are unlikely to garner enough votes from pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit MPs to see the deal approved.
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• The UK’s Q318 above-trend growth will unlikely continue in 2019. Lingering Brexit uncertainties will continue to weigh on corporate investment activity, while weakening consumer confidence will rein in private spending.
• Some of the tailwinds that have supported growth in the third quarter look set to subside and will gradually morph

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• The funding of five new artificial intelligence (AI) centres will support the government’s drive to use AI to improve early disease detection and free up NHS resources for direct patient care.
• The AI centres will bring together doctors, businesses and academics to develop products using advances in digital technology to improve early

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• The UK’s 2018 Budget signals a break with the government’s pledge to push through an austerity agenda.
• While partly reflecting the government’s genuine concerns about the impact of Brexit on economic growth, we believe that the main reason behind this policy shift is political rather than economic.
• We now believe that a balanced

The Latest: The 27 remaining members of the EU approved the UK's Withdrawal Text on November 25 in Brussels, as we at Fitch Solutions argued they would (see 'Quick View: Crucial Week For Brexit Negotiations', November 19). The agreement ended over 20 months of negotiations between the UK and the EU over the terms of the country's divorce from the