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...fight against heart disease, drugmakers last week hailed a British government decision to green-light over-the-counter-sales of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, the first such approval in the world. Starting in July, Zocor - made by U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck, but marketed in Britain by Johnson & Johnson - will be available without prescription. A health boon? Perhaps, but with statins the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.K. - draining $1.2 billion from the National Health Service each year - the measure appears "motivated more by cost than clinical reasons," says Daniel Reynolds, spokesman at the King's Fund...
...share of profits. The others deal with mobile devices, business services, entertainment, the Internet (MSN) and server software. Those last two are marginally profitable; the others are optimistic bets on the future. Says Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox: "It's like dealing with two giants and five pygmies." Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's vice president of worldwide sales, who is regarded by many as heir apparent to Ballmer, defends the reorganization: "The value we deliver comes from collaboration between the groups...
...products are there. The marketing is not. Gates and Ballmer have been our salespeople for so long, but we need more voices out there selling our products." Even the executive suites are not immune to mea culpas. "We need to be more predictable to our customers," says vice president Johnson. "We need to make it easier to do business with...
...think I have come quite a ways,” Johnson said. “I sailed every day with some of the best sailors in the country. It’s so great to have guys like Cardwell Potts and Vincent Porter around the team...
...Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...