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...enough for Merck shareholders that the firm's top drugs, Zocor and Fosamax, are going off patent over the next three years and that the pipeline looks thin. Now investors may have to stomach another bitter pill. A Texas jury last week awarded $253.5 million to the widow of a man who died after taking the painkiller Vioxx. In the first verdict reached in more than 4,000 liability cases involving the drug--which Merck recalled last year after studies indicated a possible link to heart failure--the award cast doubt on Merck's strategy of fighting each case individually...
...that confers?as the natural disease usually does?virtually lifetime immunity ... BY LUCKY COINCIDENCE, THE SEARCH [FOR A LIVE-VIRUS VACCINE] ENDED WHEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD JERYL LYNN HILLEMAN CAME DOWN WITH MUMPS. Jeryl Lynn is the daughter of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, head of the virology team at Merck Sharp & Dohme Institute for Therapeutic Research, which had been hunting for years for a mumps virus that would grow well in the lab and lose its virulence, while still retaining its power to give immunity ... Jeryl Lynn's virus was just what [the team] wanted. Now made into a vaccine...
...scientist; in Philadelphia. After being persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he could do better than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. He developed 8 of the 14 vaccines currently recommended for children, including shots for measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, chickenpox and meningitis...
...20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
...nine of the 12 contestants) now take antiretroviral drugs (ARVS), meaning they should live relatively normal - and long - lives. "For many people it has become a manageable chronic condition," says Brad Ryder, communications manager at the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, a drug therapy program funded by U.S. drugs titan Merck and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...