Merck ends vaccine lobbying effort
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Bowing to pressure from parents and medical groups, Merck &amp; Co. is suspending its lobbying campaign to persuade legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company's vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement to attend school.
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Merck &amp; Co Inc. on Thursday pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent the company&#39;s
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Medical products distributor Henry Schein Inc. lowered its financial targets for the rest of the year, citing the impact of British regulators shutting down its major supplier of flu vaccine on Tuesday.
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Millions of Americans won&#39;t get flu vaccinations this season because a major manufacturer has been shut down, cutting the nation&#39;s vaccine supply in half.
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Merck pulled Vioxx from the market on September 30th, saying it was acting in the best interest of patients. But internal documents reportedly show the company knew as far back as 2000 that
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Merck &amp; Co.'s decision to pull its widely prescribed drug Vioxx off the shelves yesterday because of a risk of stroke and heart attacks marked a new low for a pharmaceutical company that has suffered a steady decline in both market position and prestige over the last decade.
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Merck &amp; Co., bowing to pressure from parents and medical groups, is immediately suspending its lobbying campaign to persuade state legislatures to mandate that adolescent girls get the company's new vaccine against cervical cancer as a requirement for school attendance.
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CHICAGO -- A medical school and a group of about 50 breast cancer patients have agreed to settle a lawsuit over a canceled experimental vaccine program that some patients claimed had kept them alive.
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Merck &amp; Co. withdrew its Vioxx painkiller, which generated $2.5 billion in sales last year, because of a link to heart attacks and strokes.
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Pharmaceutical titan Merck &amp; Co. Inc. yesterday pulled its blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx off the market, citing safety concerns, thereby triggering a massive selloff in the company&#39;s shares that wiped out nearly US$27-billion of Merck&#39;s market value.
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The risk of polio vaccine causing the  disease has been eliminated in the United States because of a  switch to a vaccine containing an inactive form of the virus, a  government study said on Tuesday.
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Britain has pulled license for Chiron, which was to provide half of U.S. stock of flu vaccine.
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Brazilian health officials stopped the use of Chiron's vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, after a high number of children experienced serious reactions.
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The drug giant Merck suspends trials on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising.
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Merck &#38; Co. has decided to stop supplying its drugs to Canadian pharmacies that export the medicines to patients in the United States, the company confirmed Thursday.
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Merck & Co Inc. MRK.N on Thursday  pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market after a study  showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke, a move  that sent its shares plunging and erased $25 billion from its  market value.
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CHICAGO Oct 30, 2004 - A medical school and a group of about 50 breast cancer patients have agreed to settle a lawsuit over a canceled experimental vaccine program that some patients claimed had kept them alive.