It's hard to imagine that spending $13bn (£9.2bn) could lift a weight from someone's shoulders, but that's what GlaxoSmithKline PLC has done with its purchase of Novartis AG's 36.5% stake in the companies' Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture.
GSK said on March 27 that buying Novartis' share of the JV, which became a possibility this month under the...








