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...patients' cholesterol profiles, boosting "good" HDL levels and lowering amounts of dangerous triglyceride fats in the blood. ?CERVICAL CANCER Cancer is always tricky to treat, but if the malignancy is caused by a virus, then the disease becomes a little more manageable, thanks to vaccine technology. Both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have created cervical-cancer vaccines, but Merck's Gardasil was first to the FDA, which is expected to make its decision by June...
Gardasil protects against four types of human papillomavirus, which account for the vast majority of the 500,000 cervical-cancer cases and the 32 million new cases of genital warts around the world each year. Last fall Merck released encouraging results from its clinical trial in which 755 healthy sexually active women were injected with the protective shots three times over six months and none developed precancerous growths in the cervix after four years...
...CLEARED. MERCK, multinational drugmaker; of responsibility for the death of Richard Irvin, a Florida man who had a fatal heart attack after taking the company's painkiller Vioxx for less than a month; in a federal court in New Orleans. Merck faces more than 9,500 lawsuits over the drug, which it pulled in 2004. The victory was Merck's first in federal court, following a loss and a win in state-court trials last year...
...years from Baby Einstein to AP physics are an increasing source of worry for corporations like Merck and for colleges and universities, which see a shrinking pipeline of talented U.S. students pursuing the sciences. Without a Sputnik to galvanize the nation, and with an emphasis on testing in reading and math, the nation's already ill-equipped science teachers have been fighting for the attention of students, principals and policymakers. The policymakers, it seems, are starting to listen. After calling it imperative in his State of the Union speech that U.S. students receive a "firm grounding in math and science...
...says Wheeler. Women who excel in science today, he says, have career options that weren't open to them in the Sputnik era, a victory for equality but a loss for schools. "Teachers are so frightened of these subjects that they transmit the fear to the children," says former Merck CEO P. Roy Vagelos. "These kids are afraid of science...