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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Amount of debt issuance costs (for example, but not limited to, legal, accounting, broker, and regulatory fees).

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Foreign exchange rate used to translate amounts denominated in functional currency to reporting currency.

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Acquisitions and Other Transactions (Meda) (Narrative) (Details) SEK / shares in Units, $ in Millions, SEK in Billions		3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Aug. 05, 2016 USD ($) shares	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Aug. 05, 2016 SEK / shares	Aug. 05, 2016 USD ($) shares	Jul. 29, 2016 shares	Feb. 10, 2016 SEK	Feb. 10, 2016 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Amount of loss recognized unrealized mark-to-market losses included in other expense		$ (46.5)	$ 7.5	$ (61.5)	$ 7.6
Bridge Loan
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Debt issuance cost		30.2		45.2
Swedish krona denominated contracts \| Other expense
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Amount of loss recognized unrealized mark-to-market losses included in other expense				84.2
Meda AB
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition purchase price									SEK 83.6	$ 9,900.0
Foreign currency exchange rate, translation									8.4158	8.4158
Acquisition related costs		$ 146.8		$ 146.8
Meda AB \| Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition purchase price							$ 6,600.0
Business acquisition, number of shares tendered \| shares								343,000,000
Voting interests acquired, percentage								94.00%
Cash consideration	$ 5,300.0
Equity consideration transferred \| shares	26,400,000
Meda AB \| Subsequent Event \| Eighty percent of number of shares tendered
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Voting interests acquired, percentage							80.00%
Meda AB \| Subsequent Event \| Eighty percent of number of shares tendered \| Maximum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Share price \| SEK / shares						SEK 165
Meda AB \| Subsequent Event \| Twenty percent of number of shares tendered
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Voting interests acquired, percentage							20.00%
Number of Mylan N.V. shares issued per Meda shares \| shares							0.386