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...absence of tight oversight has allowed makers of herbal products to flourish, particularly in Utah, where the dry desert air helps keeps raw materials and pills and capsules fresh, and where land and skilled labor have been relatively inexpensive. Utah's free-enterprise culture has nurtured characters like Tom Murdock, an Arizona entrepreneur who in 1969 started what is now Murdock Madaus Schwabe, whose Nature's Way line is the top-selling herbal brand in health-food stores. Murdock founded the company to market the chaparral herb, which he had used to treat his cancer-stricken wife...
Today closely held Murdock Madaus Schwabe crushes and packages herbs in a factory the size of several football fields. Farther up I-15, near Salt Lake City, neighboring Nature's Herbs is in the midst of its third expansion in four years--this one aimed at tripling production to 2 million capsules an hour. That kind of growth enabled Nature's Herbs, a unit of Twinlab of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to boost its sales 50% last year...
Computer consultant Michael Murdock was all set to show up at his new job this week as president of Apple Computer. Only trouble was, he didn't have the job. You can't entirely blame him for being confused: according to the San Francisco Chronicle, he had E-mail from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and board member Larry Ellison telling him he was hired. The E-mail was real--but the job offer was totally tongue in cheek. Seems Jobs was fed up with Murdock's persistent inquiries about the position and decided to handle it with humor...
...chemical and biological weapons over there, we'll eventually be dealing with their consequences over here. BILL MURDOCK Newport Beach, Calif...
Your article on the biotech company CellPro and the development of a new treatment for cancer [MEDICINE, May 19] left out some vital facts. The stem-cell technology used in CellPro's product to help treat its ceo, Rick Murdock, was developed not by CellPro but by the researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To date, CellPro has paid Johns Hopkins nothing for its use of our stem-cell technology, thus depriving us of resources that could be applied to further cancer research. In March a federal jury found that CellPro willfully infringed Johns Hopkins' patents...