Oh, the curse of duplication. Schering-Plough embarked on a company-wide downsizing yesterday, eliminating hundreds of jobs in nearly all departments, including finance, research, information technology, and marketing. The reason? Schering's $14 billion acquisition of Organon Biosciences [1], which wrapped up in November.

A company spokeswoman told Pharmalot that "a number" of jobs had been cut in the process of integrating the two companies, but didn't specify how many.

- read the item [2] at Pharmalot

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