The Food and Drug Administration's approval of Merck's HIV medicine, Isentress, this afternoon punctuates the oft-overlooked resurgence of the drugmaker's research labs in the midst of top-management turnover, product liability lawsuits and industry-wide scientific malaise.
Dr. Blaise L. Congeni has always been in a hurry.
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For six hours on Nov. 8, 2005, time moved so slowly for Frank Burroughs and Steve Walker that it seemed to stop altogether. The two had come to a dreary ballroom at a Holiday Inn in Gaithersburg, M...
When Friday's announcement came it was hard to see it as anything but wonderful news -- the FDA had approved a vaccine called RotaTeq, made by Merck & Co., which had the potential to stop a deadly viral epidemic in its tracks.
Merck, the second-biggest American drug maker, said on Friday that its experimental cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil can also prevent external genital lesions in women, including vaginal and vulvar lesions.
An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration recommended the approval of a Merck vaccine that would protect children against a rotavirus that causes severe diarrhea, the agency said.
At least 10 people have died and more than 800 have been hospitalized -- including dozens in critical condition -- after drinking contaminated water in the Pakistan city of Lahore, authorities and health officials said Wednesday.
Among several promising new drugs American Home Products chose to highlight in its latest annual report was RotaShield, a vaccine for infants that had recently been approved by the Food and Drug Ad...
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