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...Investors think that Commerzbank did not get as good a deal as Allianz," said Konrad Becker, a financial industry analyst at Merck Finck...
...dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that affect the people who have been left behind. This kind of contribution takes the brainpower that makes life better for the richest and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else. Some pharmaceutical companies, like Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, are already doing this. The Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical shared some of its technology with a Tanzanian textile company, helping it produce millions of bed nets, which are crucial tools in the fight to eradicate malaria. Other companies are doing the same in food, cell phones and banking...
...decision did not come as a complete surprise, since a similar and widely publicized vaccine developed by Merck failed to prevent infection or control HIV replication in a trial last year. At issue is the fact that researchers still don't know exactly how the body defends against HIV. Without critical knowledge of the precise immune factors, or correlates, that prevent infection, testing any vaccine candidate that functions by triggering immune defenses would be guesswork. That's why, Fauci says, he rejected the proposal to do a large trial, involving thousands of patients and numerous immune correlates. "What I will...
...trial that Fauci canceled last week was already a slimmed down version of the original 8,500-person study that government health officials had planned - until the Merck vaccine failed last fall. In a trial of 3,000 volunteers, Merck's vaccine appeared to increase risk of HIV infection, a phenomenon that researchers later attributed to the vaccine's delivery system - pieces of HIV were piggybacked onto a common cold virus and ferried to the body's immune cells. It turned out that the people who received the vaccine and who ended up with the highest rates of HIV infection...
...Merck has not said how much the movie ad buy cost the company, but it has acknowledged that it is about the same as last year's television buy for a spot dubbed "I chose..." which now can be seen on the company's website. The ad features mothers talking to their daughters about the need to address HPV concerns. Gardasil protects against four strains of the HPV virus, two of which cause 70% of cervical cancer cases. The other two strains can cause other HPV manifestations like genital warts. A study last year published in the New England Journal...