Bermuda triangle: how Merck saved $1.5 billion via British partnership (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 29 Sep 2006, Page 28)

Bermuda triangle: how Merck saved $1.5 billion via British partnership
/ By Jesse Drucker
The Wall Street Journal Europe
29 Sep 2006

MSouthampton, Bermuda ERCK & CO.’S medications Zocor and Mevacor have been used by millions of people to help lower their cholesterol. But Merck also used the drugs to lower something else: its U.S. tax bill. Thirteen years ago, Merck set up a... read more...

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Drug firms’ lobby tactics revealed

Drug firms’ lobby tactics revealed
Rob Evans and Sarah Boseley
The Guardian
28 Sep 2006

Multinational drug companies have been lobbying ministers in an attempt to subvert the independent appraisal process and get their expensive new medicines approved for large-scale use in the NHS, the Guardian can reveal. Over the eight months from... read more...

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Roche gives HIV drug expertise to 3 African firms

Roche gives HIV drug expertise to 3 African firms
By Anita Greil
The Wall Street Journal Europe
25 Sep 2006

Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG said it will provide three African companies with the technical expertise to manufacture a generic version of its HIV medicine Invirase free of charge. Roche, based in Basel, Switzerland, said Friday that it will... read more...

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Brand-name companies drive up drug prices: study

Brand-name companies drive up drug prices: study
BY AARON DERFEL
Vancouver Sun
19 Sep 2006

MONTREAL — Brand-name pharmaceutical companies have been reaping astronomical profits over the last 10 years while driving up the cost of prescription drugs, concludes a new study by a Montreal economist. The escalating cost of medications is by far... read more...

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Anti-U.S. allies back Iran nukes (The Washington Times Daily, 17 Sep 2006, Page A1)

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Anti-U.S. allies back Iran nukes
From combined dispatches
The Washington Times Daily
17 Sep 2006

HAVANA — Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba led efforts yesterday to forge an anti-U.S. alliance and support Tehran’s right to nuclear technology at a summit of the 118nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Summit leaders, in a statement on Iran,... read more...

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Vioxx probe clearsMerck officials

Vioxx probe clearsMerck officials
By Darren McDermott
The Wall Street Journal Europe
07 Sep 2006

An investigation commissioned by Merck & Co.’s board of directors into the U.S. drug maker’s handling of its Vioxx painkiller concluded that the drug maker’s senior management acted responsibly. The investigation was led by John S. Martin, a former... read more...

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