AstraZeneca reorg to cut 1,600 jobs, moves 300 to Gaithersburg

WILMINGTON, Del. — British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC is eliminating 1,600 jobs, mostly in the U.S. and United Kingdom, under a global restructuring meant to reduce costs and make research programs more productive. The cuts amount to nearly 3 percent of AstraZeneca’s 57,200 workers around the world. The world’s fifth-largest drugmaker by revenue also will move [...]