Both companies need the sort of jolt a megamerger could provide, albeit for different reasons.

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But some say that nothing short of a megamerger with Eli Lilly or another big company will do.

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Its hope was (and still is) to prod Roche into a megamerger that would create the world's second-largest drug company.

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