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...debate begins in earnest this week, when the FDA conducts hearings on requests by Merck & Co., maker of Mevacor, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., manufacturer of Pravachol, to sell lower-dose versions of their cholesterol-lowering products over the counter (OTC). If the FDA approves the switch, it may unleash a flood of similar requests from other drugmakers...
...motivated as much by enlightened self-interest as by altruism, but the decision by five pharmaceutical giants to slash the price of AIDS drugs in Africa has the potential to be an important milestone in the battle against the killer disease. Bristol Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, Merck and Co., Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Roche Holding AG are set Thursday to announce a program negotiated with the United Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that...
Within the chemistry department, outside funding generally comes from large pharmaceutical companies such as Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Hoffman-LaRoche...
...such mishaps scarcely matter. Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Bristol Myers Squibb, Fannie Mae and Wells Fargo, each up between fivefold and 75-fold, were in the mix, providing exposure to the hottest sectors of the decade: computers, banks and drugs. And that's the big lesson. If you're busy racking up commission and tax costs, always chasing hot stocks or funds, get a life. All you really need is a few good ideas and the patience to be waiting when one pans out. What about the next 10 years? Think Internet infrastructure (it will be built even if every...
Researchers at Bristol Myers Squibb and other biotechnology companies, however, say they are unable to reproduce the results, stirring some controversy over the validity of Folkman's methodology...