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Three years ago, concerns about the heart risks associated with the painkiller Vioxx triggered an escalating crisis for the drugmaker Merck that culminated with the withdrawal of the drug in September 2004, the eventual resignation of the CEO and fierce criticism of the Food and Drug Administration for failing to identify the risks of the drug before it was approved. Now a study released by the New England Journal of Medicine has linked one of the most commonly prescribed diabetes drugs, Avandia, to a significant increase in the risk of heart attack. But both the FDA and Avandia's manufacturer...
Medvedev's pro-Putin maneuvering and his willingness to leverage supply power has made him a top gun at Gazprom. And more important, he who controls Gazpromexport controls Gazprom, says Mikhail Krutikhin, chief analyst for RusEnergy, Russia's authoritative energy think tank. Though Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller is also a Putin man, Medvedev was installed directly by the Kremlin independently of Miller, Krutikhin maintains. Both toe the same line, but the Kremlin runs them separately. Mutual mistrust makes for cooperation, to paraphrase Stalin...
...Airways, the country's largest full-service carrier, is buying rival Air Sahara for $340 million and, perhaps more important, more gates at congested airports. The mergers are "an attempt by players to basically get some kind of stability into the market," says Kapil Kaul, New Delhi--based CEO for India and the Middle East at CAPA. "What we're seeing now is sanity beginning to prevail...
...come back to reality," iParadigms CEO John Barrie says of the copyright suit. "These aren't nuclear-missile secrets." Papers are being archived at the same time as testing sites install cell-phone detectors to keep students from text-messaging answers or finding them online. One result of the high-tech cheating wars: paranoia. McCabe says fewer students are filling out his anonymous surveys. "Students started accusing me of getting their IP address," he says...
Last fall, just six years after Dick Cheney left the Dallas office of Halliburton for Washington, Democrats swept every county-wide contested race. And on May 12, Dallas sent an openly gay candidate into next month's mayoral runoff. If city councilman Ed Oakley defeats former Turner Construction CEO Tom Leppert, Dallas will become the first big U.S. city to elect a gay mayor. Dallas would join Berlin and Paris as major cities led by gays. Wait--Dallas...