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Drug Companies Raising Prices Ahead Of Reform

nytimes.com | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Health Care Costs, Prescription Drug Costs, Drug Companies, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Drug Prices, Healthcare, Consumer Price Index, Business News

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

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Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Health Care Bill, Merck, Public Option, Singulair, Senate Health Care Bill, Prescription Drugs, Reform, Pharmaceutical Makers, Drug Makers, Costs, House, Drug Prices, Drugmakers, Inflation, Consumer Price Index, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Medicare, Health Care, Wall Street, Prices, House Health Care Bill, Wholesale Drug Prices, Business News

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

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Merging Into the Fast Lane of Drug Development

Richard T. Clark | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Health Care Firms, Schering-Plough, Merck, Global Merger, Health Care, iPhone Apps, Business News
Richard T. Clark

We now have people in more countries, including more emerging markets, and are putting systems in place to create and incubate knowledge networks which were unattainable just a few years ago.

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The Gardasil Vaccine -- Introduction to a Series

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Glaxosmithkline, HPV Vaccine, Stds, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Living News, Merck, Genital Warts, Harvard School of Public Health, Pap Test, Gardasil Vaccine, Teenage Sexuality, Fda, Center for American Progress, Ceravix, Human Papillomavirus, Girls's Health, Women's Health, Dissident Voice, Ins, New England Journal of Medicine, Health News, Cervical Cancer, Lucinda Marshall, Healthcare, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

As the nation's attention is riveted on the discourse about health care reform, another debate is taking place around the Gardasil vaccine.

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Cervix Not Required: An Interview with Dr. Adina Nack

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stigma, HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Council on Contemporary Families, Merck, Gardasil, Public Health, Fda Approval, Men's Health, Fda, Sexuality, Vaccines, Human Papillomavirus, Women's Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Marketing, Sexually Transmitted Infections, HPV Vaccination for Boys, Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Cervical Cancer, Living News
Abby L. Ferber

Last Friday, the FDA approved the HPV vaccine for use in boys and men. Why is Gardasil only now being approved for males, when it was approved three years ago for females?

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Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, White House, Losers, Obama, Business, Legislation, Pharma, Politics, Scorecard, Negotiations, Baucus, Wellpoint, Aetna, Novartis, Pfizer, Health Care, Wall Street, Reid, United Health, Stocks, Merck, Winners, Insurance Industry, Senate, Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Dodd, Medicaid, Bill, Medco Health, Politics News

The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

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This Week In Cheating: Drugs

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Trial, Fosamax, Pants!, Merck, Drug Industry, Class Action, Pfizer, Addiction, Trap, Scandal, Awesome, Pharmaceutical Industry, Settlement, Satire, Vioxx, Wyeth, Rachel Maddow, Marketing, Neurontin, Monty Python, Comedy News
Jeff Kreisler

So, let me get this straight: Pfizer is the drug company who'll lie to you, but Merck's the one that'll kill you?

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Fake It Till You Make It: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

wired.com | STEVE SILBERMAN | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Placebos, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Placebo, Placebo Effect, Anti-Depressants, Living News

Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...

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Big Pharma's Free Ride

Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Pap Attack, Glaxosmithkline, John Dillinger Movie, Senate, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Ring of Fire, Golefttv, Mike Papantonio, Pfizer, Air America Radio, Max Baucus, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.

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The NY Times Made Me Do It

Charles Warner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

Read More: NY Times, Merck, Stanford Law School, George Bush, The Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth, Grey Lady, Bloggers, Ad Age, Vioxx, Oxford University, New York Times, Blogging Heads, Judith Miller Iraq, Frank Rich, Judith Miller, David Carr, Harvard College, Media News
Charles Warner

The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.

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Follow the Money on Health Care Reform

Deborah Burger | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Single Payer, Health Care, Pfizer, Merck, Private Insurance Industry, Transparency, Politics News
Deborah Burger

All in all, it seems a safe bet that in the final analysis, we may yet end up with the best health care reform money can buy.

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Merck sees 57 percent drop in first-quarter profit

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business

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TRENTON, N.J. — Drugmaker Merck & Co. on Tuesday posted a 57 percent drop in first-quarter profit, falling short of expectations and sending its...

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CNN's Gupta: Not What the Doctor Ordered

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Merck, Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta, Vioxx Settlement, Sicko, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Obama's Surgeon General, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, United States Preventive Services Task, Health, Tom Daschle, Single Payer Healthcare, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Pharmaceuticals, Surgeon General, Heart Attack, Sanjay Gupta, Michael Moore Sicko, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
James Floyd, M.D.

Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.

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Merck To Slash 7,200 Jobs Following 3Q Net Drop Of 28 Percent

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck, Pharmaceutical Industry, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

TRENTON, N.J. — Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Wednesday it will slash 7,200 jobs as part of a new restructuring program that comes as its third-qua...

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Merck Agrees To $58M Settlement Over Vioxx Ad Claims

AP | MARTHA RAFFAELE | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck Vioxx Settlement, Vioxx Settlement, Merck, Vioxx, Vioxx Ads, Merck Vioxx Ads, Business News

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 ...

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Merck, Schering-Plough Sink on Vytorin

AP | DAMIAN TROISE | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Zetia, Merck Shares, Cholesterol Drugs, Vytortin, Zocor, Merck, Schering-Plough, Business News

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...

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FDA Investigates Merck Allergy Drug's Possible Link To Suicide

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck, Merck Allergy Drug, Merck Drug Suicide, Singular, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suici...

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Merck Settles With Govt Over Rebates

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck, Merck & Co, Merck Settlement, Vioxx, Zocor, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Companies, Business News

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...

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Merck Settles Vioxx Lawsuits For $4.85 Bil

New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Merck, Merck Lawsuit, Vioxx, Business News

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...

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Cervical Cancer Vaccines To Face-Off In Europe

CNN/Money | Aaron Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Cervical Cancer, GlaxoSmithKline, Gardasil, Cervarix, Merck, Business News

Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil now faces direct competition from Glaxo's Cervarix, which was approved by European health authorities, said t...

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Merck Pulls Plug On AIDS Vaccine Trials After Experimental Drug Fails

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Hiv, AIDS, Merck, Business News

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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