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Your article "the goodwill pill Mess" [BUSINESS, April 29], about medicines that are given away to countries in need, implied that Eli Lilly & Co.'s donation of its antibiotic CeclorCD during the Rwandan refugee crisis was unwanted and not of use. Far from being unwanted, Lilly's 1994 antibiotic donation...
Well, sort of. The trouble is the gift was an antibiotic called CeclorCD, which is not on the World Health Organization's list of essential drugs for the treatment of refugees. Nor is it on the treatment schedules of any countries in central Africa. Because of the risk of causing...
In the case of CeclorCD, Lilly spokesman Fritz Frommeyer insists that the company's impulse to do good was authentic. He concedes that the tablets were excess stock nearing expiration and that the tax benefits were "one facet" of the decision, but he adds, "We felt that it was the...
--The FDA has approved a pair of drugs to HELP CURE ULCERS, not just treat symptoms. An antibiotic taken with an antacid kills off the bacteria implicated in causing most ulcers.
Convinced that he had Lyme disease, Quinn dragged himself to the Westchester County Medical Center. After examining him, however, doctors concluded that Quinn didn't have Lyme disease at all. Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least...