Word: ploughing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Admit it, you snickered when you first heard that women would be weight lifting in these Olympics. You imagined huge hairy-chested Belarussians with no teeth who built up muscle from pushing a handheld stump-jump plough. But I have seen this sport and, reader, it is glorious. This is the kind of sport for which the Olympics were invented...
...drug, which is sold OTC in many nations. It costs about $17 a month in Canada. But in the U.S., Claritin requires a prescription and carries a $62 price tag. That's why Blue Cross of California has asked the FDA to shift Claritin to OTC status. But Schering-Plough, manufacturer of Claritin, sold $2.7 billion worth of the drug last year, 85% of which came from U.S. sales. Rx is O.K. for Schering...
...unrelated legislation and covered a single drug or two. But this year, watch for heavy lobbying for the granddaddy of all patent extenders. It would protect pharmaceutical company sales of $3 billion annually and add years to the profitable life of at least seven expensive drugs, such as Schering-Plough's Claritin for allergies and Eulexin for prostate cancer, SmithKline Beecham's Relafen for arthritis and G.D. Searle's Daypro for arthritis. The big losers: patients, especially senior citizens on fixed incomes, who must buy expensive prescription drugs instead of cheaper generic versions. Estimates of the added cost run from...