AstraZeneca CEO Brennan Talks About Cutting Deals and Dealing With Change
Executive Summary
PhRMA's new chairman, AstraZeneca CEO David Brennan, wants to make a deal on health reform - but not necessarily the kind of tradeoff the industry made on the Medicare drug benefit
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