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...vaccine, Gardasil, is solely manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.—a global research driven pharmaceutical company—as a preventative vaccine reccommended for women ages 9-26 who have not yet contracted HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that may lead to cervical cancer...
Professor of Management Practice Raymond V. Gilmartin was the chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., a leading pharmaceutical research company, for 11 years...
...second drug, an integrase inhibitor from Merck, aims to tackle HIV where it hurts the most - by blocking the integrase enzyme, which the virus uses to insert its genes into a host cell's genome and hijack the machinery to churn out more copies of itself. Called isentress, the experimental agent helped 75% of patients reduce their viral load of HIV to acceptable levels, compared with only 40% of patients given placebo...
...giving them a larger well of knowledge upon which they can draw. Yet, even as newer classes of ARVs arrive, drugs cannot be the only answer to AIDS. Already, says Dr. Roy Steigbigel of State University of New York at Stony Brook, and one of the leading investigators of Merck's isentress, volunteers have begun to develop resistance to the integrase inhibitor - a drug that hasn't even yet been approved...
Gardasil maker Merck is spending big bucks to lobby around the country and, according to a company rep, is advertising on all major TV channels...