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...Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co., distributors of tolbutamide (trade-named Orinase), reported only mild skin rashes, indigestion or stomach distention in a small proportion of the 10,000 diabetics who have received this drug in the last year...
...Upjohn Co., which is making one of the drugs under the name Orinase, circularized 200,000 U.S. doctors with a double warning: 1) it is too early to be sure how effective the pills will be; 2) they are not yet available for general prescription. But President E. Gifford Upjohn (an M.D. himself) suggested that "a breakthrough may have occurred." Western Reserve University's Dr. Max Miller hailed the drugs* "the most significant development in diabetes since Banting and Best discovered insulin...
...Robert Porter, general counsel and secretary of Charles Pfizer Company, manufacturing chemists, testified that his company had hired Broady to find out how the secret formula of a new drug (Tetracycline) had leaked to competitors. (Earlier this year Pfizer sued Bristol Laboratories, E. R. Squibb & Son and the Upjohn Co. for $50 million, charging infringement of patents.) Pfizer, Porter testified, had paid Broady to shadow 50 of its employees. Broady also tapped the telephones of Squibb and Bristol-Myers on his own initiative, but found no leak...
CORTISONE price war, already hot, will probably get even hotter soon. Two of the biggest makers of the new drug, Merck & Co. and Upjohn Co., have cut prices 22%, the second such reduction in recent months. Reason for the cuts: new techniques have upped production tremendously...
...Cortisone is extremely useful in many eye infections because it prevents scarring of the cornea, but it has no power to kill the germs. Now the Upjohn Co. has combined cortisone with the antibiotic neomycin, expects the two-way treatment to be especially valuable in pinkeye...