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With the approval of Merck's vaccine against cervical cancer Thursday, parents will soon be having some important and touchy conversations with their young daughters - about...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) biochemist’s research on a common cause of blindness in the elderly has generated a lucrative deal with Merck & Co., the US’s second-largest drug provider. Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando’s research has paved the way for the manufacturing of drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later...
...Merck prides itself on being socially enlightened. The drugmaker gives its employees diversity training and extends health insurance to same-sex partners. But a report to be released this week by the Washington-based Center for Political Accountability (C.P.A.) shows that in the 2004 elections, Merck was one of 18 companies that gave money to judicial candidates whose conservative views clashed with the corporations' liberal policies. Merck, the report says, donated $1,000 to Samac Richardson, a business-friendly candidate for the Mississippi Supreme Court who ran on an anti-gay-marriage platform and in a TV ad boasted...
...watchdog group's goal is to boost shareholder efforts to make firms reveal their political contributions. In the past 18 months, 10 companies, including McDonald's and Morgan Stanley, have begun disclosing donations on their websites and given their boards oversight of the contributions. (Merck, which declined comment, began disclosing contributions last year, but its board doesn't supervise its giving.) Many companies fear alienating groups with competing political interests. Of 40 firms facing shareholder-sponsored disclosure resolutions, only one, the biotech firm Amgen, recommended a yes vote. Its measure passed last week...
...Gardasil may encourage sex by promoting the idea that it's risk-free ?SHINGLES In Italy it's called St. Anthony's fire, a vivid description for the red, blistery and often painful rash that 1 million adults in the U.S. each year come to know as shingles. Merck is awaiting FDA approval for its shingles shot, Zostavax, which is designed to prevent shingles in those who are most vulnerable to the disease--adults over age 60. Shingles occurs when the chicken-pox virus from a childhood infection is reactivated--usually by the decline in immunity that comes with...