Word: merck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some individual cases are so desperate that the pharmaceutical companies have decided to help out. Last summer New Jersey-based Merck announced that it would make its protease inhibitor, indinavir, available free to 4,100 people who couldn't otherwise afford it. Other firms have pledged to continue treatment for those patients who participated in their clinical trials...
...develop an array of novel drugs. "Now that we have an increasing ability to identify and sequence genes, there is no doubt that there will be an improvement in the way we go about drug development," says Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, senior vice president of basic research at Merck, in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey...
...that prompt cancer cells to divide in the first place. Particularly promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these days I'm almost Pollyannaish about finding safer, more effective cancer therapies...
...Ford 5 Intel 5 Merck 5 Columbia/HCA 4 Exxon 4 Hewlett-Packard 4 Johnson & Johnson 4 Pepsico 4 Wal-Mart 4 McDonald...
...know. They note that the boards are often filled with such vital information as strategic plans, growth projections, competitive analysis and sophisticated discussion of new products. In the Intel folder, contributors regularly discuss dram pricing and its likely impact on the stock price, while in the Merck board, doctors have weighed in with their views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform the research," says Randy Befumo, who composes the Motley Fool Evening...