2 New Melanoma Drugs and 1 Vaccine Acquisition

Like all big pharmas reinventing themselves post patent cliff, GlaxoSmithKline is staying busy. It just received FDA approval for two new melanoma drugs and snatched up a Swiss vaccine company for roughly $325 million.

In this video, health-care analyst David Williamson discusses what these two big pieces of news mean for Glaxo investors and also for its competitors.

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