Word: squibbs
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...persistent gadfly, but an influential one. Among his targets are the biggest drug producers in the world. Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth control pills sold in Singapore and Malaysia; Parke-Davis...
...distributing drugs to patients who may live far from medical centers; keeping vaccines refrigerated in jungle outposts; teaching uneducated patients how to take medicines. Dow, Parke-Davis and Hoechst maintain they have uniform policies on drug information worldwide. Any abuses, they say, originate within the importing countries. Syntex and Squibb note that warnings for their products have been omitted by local drug manuals. "We are not responsible for what the guides will print," said a Squibb spokesman, "but we make all the information available...
Sanders' new job will "make him one of the very top people at Squibb." Ken Rabin, director of public affairs for Squibb, said yesterday at the company's international headquarters in Princeton...
Sanders' title will be executive vice president for science and administration, and he will be the second-in-command of Squibb International's largest division, E.R. Squibb and Sons pharmaceuticals Rabin said...
Sanders told reporters he would pay special attention to developing the market in China for Squibb. He, and Dr. R. Ebert, former dean of the Med School serve on the China Foundation, an organization founded to bring high quality health care to Mainland China. Ebert, now president of the Millbank Foundation, is a member of the Squibb board of directors...