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Derecognition of construction in progress assets

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Amount of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, that lack physical substance, having a projected indefinite period of benefit, acquired at the acquisition date.

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Amount of purchases of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Amount of increase in asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized resulting from a business combination.

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Other Consolidated Financial Statement Detail (Details Textual) (USD $)	12 Months Ended		3 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Mar. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012	Mar. 08, 2012
Business Acquisition
Increase to goodwill	$ 527,300,000us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod	$ 35,700,000us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod
Total purchase price allocated to goodwill	1,760,249,000us-gaap_Goodwill	1,232,916,000us-gaap_Goodwill		1,201,300,000us-gaap_Goodwill
Contingent consideration obligation	0	0
Cambridge Leases
Business Acquisition
Derecognition of construction in progress assets		161,500,000
Stromedix, Inc.
Business Acquisition
Total purchase price allocated to IPR&D					219,200,000
Total purchase price allocated to goodwill					48,200,000
Contingent consideration obligation			122,200,000
Four billion \| Fumapharm AG
Business Acquisition
Cumulative sales level	4,000,000,000
TECFIDERA \| Fumapharm AG
Business Acquisition
Increase to goodwill	600,000,000
TECFIDERA \| Four billion \| Fumapharm AG
Business Acquisition
Increase to goodwill	$ 250,000,000