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Tums, meet Tagamet. The race to create global pharmaceutical companies inspired a transatlantic merger last week. London's Beecham Group, maker of Tums antacid, and Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti- ulcer drug Tagamet, said they will form a company with more than $6.7 billion in total sales. The merged corporation, to be renamed SmithKline Beecham, will rank No. 2 in the pharmaceutical world to New Jersey-based Merck...
...sclerosis, diabetes, genital herpes and even trench mouth. It is a sorry sign of the times that the three bestselling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer (Valium). Concludes Dr. Joel Elkes, director of the behavioral medicine program at the University of Louisville: "Our mode of life itself, the way we live, is emerging as today's principal cause of illness...
Propranolol, the first beta blocker introduced in the U.S., is also the nation's second most widely prescribed drug (after the antiulcer drug Tagamet). Ayerst Laboratories, which manufactures propranolol under the name Inderal, plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to approve its use as a post-heart attack treatment. As it is, physicians are free to prescribe it since it is already approved for other uses. Many heart attack patients are taking Inderal for other heart-related conditions. The FDA is also expected to rule favorably soon on Merck Sharp & Dohme's application to introduce another...
...over 700 compounds, they finally hit upon cimetidine. At present, their discovery has been approved for up to only eight-weeks' use by duodenal-ulcer patients and by victims of a few other diseases causing excessive acid secretion, like gastrinoma (tumors of the pancreas). Under the brand name Tagamet, the new drug should be available (on prescription only) by Labor Day. Cost of a four-to six-weeks' supply for the average course of therapy...