MicroDose Technologies has announced that the first clinical milestone in its collaboration with Merck & Co, through a Merck affiliate, has been achieved, triggering the first payment under the global license agreement for MicroDose's dry powder inhaler technology announced in...
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Star-Telegram offering employees buyouts The Star-Telegram announced Wednesday that it’s offering voluntary buyouts to most of its full-time employees. McClatchy, which cut 10 percent of its work force this summer and recently...
A new study suggests that giving Merck & Co.'s cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil to women through their mid-20s may not be worth the price, despite U.S. recommendations that this age group receive the costly shot. The CDC says...
New study says HPV vaccine worth cost for teens, but not older women Kylee Misik of Medford, Ore., receives the HPV vaccine with her pre-college inoculations. The vaccine against the HPV virus was licensed in 2006 for use in...
The first of $4.85 billion in settlement money will be distributed by Merck, starting next Thursday. Partial payments for people claiming that the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks will go out starting Aug. 28,...