Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With one of the nation's highest tuitions ($1,680), Bard can squeeze little more out of its students, whose total costs per year are now a hefty $2,500. Last week Bard's onetime parent, Columbia, calmly turned the trick by boosting college tuition 21% to $1,450. Reason: "the imperative need" for increasing faculty salaries. A Columbia full professor's minimum pay will now climb...
...Keef himself-were all wrong. Prednisolone, said Brown, is a Schering improvement on Merck & Co.'s basic cortisone, is marketed by Schering under the trade name Meticortelone. Schering cross-licensed other companies to make it and bought a lot of it from Upjohn Co., at $1.19 per hundred tablets. But this price, argued Brown, did not take into account the costs for research, administration, taxes, selling and distribution. By Schering's figuring, said Brown, the 100 tablets cost $12.30. It offered the tablets to druggists at $17.90 with a suggested consumer's price...
...people think that wonder drugs, such as prednisolone, which enables bedridden arthritics to walk, cost too much, said Brown haughtily, the problem is "inadequate income rather than excessive prices." In reply, the subcommittee staff brought out that Schering bought some hormone tablets at 12? per 60 from a French manufacturer, wholesaled them as "Progynon" for $8.40 with a consumer price of $14-a 7,079% markup...
...when it produced Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories of South Hackensack, NJ. Blackman estimated that the U.S. public could save $750 million a year if physicians would use scientific instead of brand names in prescriptions. This year Premo sold the Government prednisone tablets at $20.01 per thousand, while Merck & Co. offered to supply them to the Government at $63.70 per thousand and sold them to druggists at $179, for a retail price...
...question you start reading." Replied Connor, who had 22 assistants with him and had spent six months getting ready to testify: "I thought I would do you the honor of coming well prepared, sir." Asked why Merck's prednisone retailed in London at $7.53 per 100 tablets v. $17.90 in the U.S., Connor said that it was cheaper to manufacture and sell drugs abroad...