The news this morning is that Pfizer is in talks to buy Wyeth, and apparently has been for some time. For those of us in the drug industry, this headline is a weird mixture of surprise and, well, total lack of surprise. The "total lack" part comes, naturally, from Pfizer's history. This would be the biggest deal in the pharmaceutical industry since. . .well, since the last time Pfizer did this, swallowing Pharmacia-Upjohn in 2003. They've bought one large…… More »