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...believe it infects almost every child in the world by age 5 and kills 600,000 of them a year in poor countries. (Children who contract the virus in rich countries, by contrast, usually recover quickly because they are treated aggressively.) The first vaccine approved for prevention of rotavirus, Wyeth's Rotashield, was taken off the market in 1999 after several children who received it developed a rare but serious complication in which the bowel folds in on itself. Preliminary studies suggest this problem has been overcome by Merck's RotaTeq, which was approved by regulators in Europe...
...gateway from Everett Street and Mass. Ave. to the heart of the campus, according to one of the complex’s designers, Melissa DelVecchio of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The Everett Street Garage won’t be the only building bulldozed in the project. The Wyeth Hall dorm will be demolished to make room for the new kid on the Mass Ave. block. The blueprint, unveiled last night at a Pound Hall information session, includes large windows and open spaces—meant to bring light in from outside, DelVecchio said. The Law School campus already boasts several...
...verdict constitutes a stern rebuke to Big Pharma. Jurors heard plenty from the plaintiff's lawyers about Merck's aggressive sales and marketing tactics and about a corporate culture that, they claimed, prizes profits over honest science. Merck, however, is hardly alone in being accused of such things. Wyeth, for one, has set aside $21 billion to pay for claims stemming from fen-phen, its faulty diet-drug combo. Analysts estimate that Merck could be on the hook for more than $18 billion in Vioxx damages...
...skies above Harvard Square are of course a far cry from those above Harvard, Mass., and the Knowles telescope has only one-fifteenth the light gathering power of the Wyeth reflector at Oak Ridge,” Dame said...
Nathaniel J. Craig ’05, who took “Astrophysics Laboratory,” said that without the visit to the Wyeth, which housed in a three-story-tall dome, the course would offer none of its former kicks...