HARRISBURG, Pa. — Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $58 million as part of a multistate settlement of allegations that its ads for the once-popular ...
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business
How is that the industry can so effectively manipulate highly trained doctors?
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living
Since drug companies are spending so much money to do questionable studies clearly aimed at promoting drug sales, why don't they use that money to pay patients themselves to swallow their drugs?
AP | DAMIAN TROISE | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Shares of Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. fell to record lows Monday, as analysts warned new clinical data would choke sales of...
AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suici...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — In one of the biggest U.S. health care fraud settlements ever, Merck & Co. will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged...
New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 11.09.2007 | Business
Three years after withdrawing its pain medication Vioxx from the market, Merck has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 lawsuits by people who...
CNN/Money | Aaron Smith | Posted 09.24.2007 | Business
Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil now faces direct competition from Glaxo's Cervarix, which was approved by European health authorities, said t...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 09.21.2007 | Business
A promising experimental vaccine to prevent the AIDS virus has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, lead...
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WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
AP | MARTHA RAFFAELE | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business