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...upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining town turned resort from Minneapolis seven years ago and set up shop custom- designing training systems for Toshiba, Syntex and other large corporations. "With data communication and computers and faxes, distance is not an issue," he says. "We have easy access to our markets, most of which are on the West Coast. The airport's 45 minutes away...
...companies to curry favor with the public. Last month Bristol-Myers Squibb announced that it will donate 17 different brands of blood pressure- and cholesterol-lowering drugs for use by patients whose doctors will certify that they have no insurance or other means of paying. In addition, Bristol Myers, Syntex and Merck have announced that they will provide 12.5% price rebates on drugs dispensed in federally financed public health programs for the poor...
Beginning in 1984, the FDA permitted the Syntex pharmaceutical firm to give doctors free ganciclovir, a drug used to treat eye infections that frequently blind AIDS patients, under a special program that allows "compassionate use" of unproven drugs. Doctors who have dispensed the drug are convinced that it works, but all the conventional controlled studies have not been done. Nonetheless, the FDA last week approved ganciclovir for full marketing and sales. The agency also gave the go-ahead for wider distribution of another unproven drug, erythropoietin, which is used in cases of AIDS-associated anemia...
Manufactured by Eli Lilly, Syntex and other U.S. pharmaceutical firms and approved by the Food and Drug Administration for controlled use, the hormone pellets are implanted in the animal under the skin behind the ears. The small time-release capsules slowly dole out the hormones over several weeks during key growth stages. By eliminating as many as 21 days of feeding time before the animals reach the target weight of about 1,000 lbs., the hormone treatments (cost per implant: about $1) save the cattlemen approximately $20 per head, which can be the difference between profit and loss. Producers maintain...
After researchers at the Syntex Corp. produced the first oral contraceptive in 1951, the small pharmaceuticals maker grew within a few years into a large conglomerate (fiscal year 1982 revenues: $813 million). A host of other companies has made fortunes supplying what is now a huge U.S. contraceptives market. A small firm in California called V.L.I. hopes to join their ranks with a new kind of contraceptive that is likely to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration within a month...