GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical company. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, GSK was the world's sixth largest pharmaceutical company according to Forbes as of 2019. The company has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Yesterday, I was at my local pharmacy where in addition to a flu shot I was injected with GSK's Shingrix vaccine. Not the greatest experience in that I've had body sores and temperature fluctuations for the last 36 hours. But that means it's working, right?
You might have seen news of GSK getting in trouble with the US Department of Justice, pleading guilty to promoting drugs for unapproved uses and kickbacks to physicians. They agreed to pay a $3 billion settlement which was the largest health-care fraud case to date.
Joseph Nathan and Co. was founded in 1873, as a general trading company in Wellington, New Zealand, by a Londoner, Joseph Edward Nathan. In 1904, it began producing a dried-milk baby food from excess milk produced on dairy farms near Bunnythorpe. The resulting product was first known as Defiance, then as Glaxo (from lacto), and sold with the slogan "Glaxo builds bonnie babies." The company's first pharmaceutical product, released in 1924, was vitamin D.
Since then, GSK has an ever growing list of all sorts of stuff with names that I can't pronounce and definitely can't spell. I have taken Flonase and Zantac for sure. Others, not so much.
If you're over 50, you should definitely get a shingles vaccine. Shingles is nothing to ignore.
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