Word: salzman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mark Salzman...
...billboards, they had been blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace staff member: "If we don't stop the arms race, we'll be in no position to worry about billboards...
...probably running the company through its most tumultuous time," said Jack Salzman, an analyst at Goldman Sachs...
That situation has stirred outrage, not only from patients but also from lawmakers, public health-insurance officials and many of the nation's prominent mental-health professionals. Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Carl Salzman, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, called Sandoz's actions "monopolistic" and demanded that the drug company and health officials come to an agreement that would make the drug more accessible to "the patients for whom it is intended." Earlier this month, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas introduced legislation that would reduce Sandoz's control...
...which patients cannot get their weekly dose unless they provide Sandoz, or a company under contract to Sandoz, with a blood sample -- is no more than an elaborate form of gouging. "There are many, many ways to do the same job for a lot less money," said Harvard's Salzman. He and others argue that most hospitals and mental-health clinics could conduct the same testing at a lower cost. They point out that in Europe, where the blood testing is not mandatory, the drug costs only about $1,300 a year. Salzman calls the refusal of some state Medicaid...