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...called vardenafil (trade name: Levitra) to market in Europe later this year. Another drug, called tadalafil (Cialis), is also being launched there. Like Viagra, these new pills facilitate an erection by trapping more blood in the penis. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, believes both new drugs infringe on its patent. The company lost its case in Europe; another lawsuit in the U.S. is pending...
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...Bayer also said that it has set aside $257.2 million to settle a civil and criminal investigation into allegations that it underpaid rebates for pharmaceutical products under Medicaid, the U.S. health plan for the poor. A further Bayer headache is the imminent expiration in the U.S. of the patent on another Bayer best seller, the antibiotic Cipro, the drug of choice during the panic over anthrax, which boosted sales to j1.9 billion. The company hopes a new once-a-day Cipro version will help maintain sales against generic competition from companies like Ratiopharm in Germany. Bayer had long insisted that...
...sole occupants of a 50-acre reservation for homeless Indians north of Healdsburg, Calif. The families sometimes feuded, but they ultimately shared a common dream: they wanted to be landowners, not tenants on a reservation. In 1952 John and Dolores Myers wrote the BIA asking "to secure a patent fee or a deed to this property." The Steeles sent a similar letter: they, too, wanted the reservation land deeded to them personally...
...this god-awful tap version of The Nutcracker,” she says without a hint of nostalgia. “The really little kids were cuter and they got to wear wings and halos, while we just got the ugly white leotards, white tights and black patent leather shoes...