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When moviegoers catch up on the antics of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte this summer, many will first have to sit through a big screen ad for Gardasil, the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV) that is aimed at combating cervical cancer. The ad campaign by the drug manufacturer Merck debuted during the premiere of Sex and the City and will run through June 26 in movie theaters across the country. The ad campaign, according to Merck, is aimed at 19-26-year-old women. It will also will be shown before other summer movie releases including Get Smart...
...fall, Grassley and Senator Herbert H. Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which will require companies to report payments that they make to doctors. Legislation for the Sunshine Act, which has recently secured endorsements last month from pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and Merck, is currently pending...
...have done your readers a disservice by failing to note Dr. Paul Offit's conflict of interest with regard to vaccines. He is not merely a doctor at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia; he is a co--patent holder for Merck's RotaTeq vaccine. Angelique Higgins, SHERMAN OAKS, CALIF...
...their goals in life and realized the many similarities. He proposed on the Weeks Footbridge a little more than three years after they met. After their Cambridge wedding, the pair will live together in Pennsylvania. (The groom is from Ohio and the bride from Virginia.) Hetrick already works for Merck Pharmaceuticals and Vittori will begin a master’s degree program at Lehigh University. Hetrick said he “probably logged 20,000 miles” on his car this year shuttling between Pennsylvania and Cambridge, but Vittori said the distance wasn’t a problem because...
...spend translates to 24 new prescriptions, according to the House Commerce Committee. But as industry spending has soared, so has public scrutiny. Last week, at a day-long House subcommittee hearing, lawmakers pushed for tougher regulations, taking aim at seemingly deceptive ads by drug companies such as Pfizer and Merck. And on Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which mandates and monitors the content of drug ads, convened to discuss the issue...