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A bitter pill for Big Pharma
The strategy that has made the pharmaceutical industry one of the wealthiest and most powerful on Earth is finally starting to betray it. Beginning in just a few weeks, and continuing over the next several years, some of the biggest-selling and most...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, McDonald's, Lilly Eli & Co, Heart Attack
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Some companies are healthy, producing dividends
You might conclude that stock dividends are harder to find these days than, say, a credit card company that forgives late payments. Cash-strapped companies, most notably banks, slashed dividends last year to the tune of more than $40 billion. It was the...Tags: MedImmune Inc., Prices, Stock Market, Johnson & Johnson Inc., Companies and Corporations
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Altera Corp.; American Express Co.; Canadian National Railway Co.; Equifax Inc.; Halliburton Co.; Hasbro Inc.; Merck & Co.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc. Tuesday: -- Earnings: Ace Ltd.; Amazon.com Inc.; AT&T Inc.;...Tags: Precision Castparts Corporation, Celgene Corporation, Kellogg Company, United Air Lines, Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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CVS acts quickly in a competitive pharmacy industry
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: What does the future hold for my CVS Corp. shares? -- K.T., via the Internet A: The future looks bright in a rapidly consolidating drugstore industry in which it is a leader. But it is a fiercely competitive field. CVS, with more than 6,000 stores,...Tags: Earnings, Drugs and Medicines, Beauty Products and Fragrances, Morningstar Incorporated, Caremark Rx Inc.
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Three Researchers in NIH Controversy Are Leaving
Times Staff WriterThree senior researchers at the center of a controversy at the National Institutes of Health over moonlighting for the pharmaceutical industry are leaving the government, officials said. The departures come at a time when the NIH is implementing...Tags: Biotechnology, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), National Institutes of Health, Politics, Maryland
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The National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
Times Staff WriterFor 15 million Americans, it is a daily ritual: gulping down a pill to reduce cholesterol. They do it because their doctors tell them to. Their doctors, in turn, rely on recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and its scientists, such as...Tags: Credit and Debt, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, Television, Career and Workplace
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Greenspan Worried About Trade Deficit
Times Staff WriterWall Street stock swooned today after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed concerns about the chronic and growing U.S. trade deficit and its impact on the value of the U.S. dollar and interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average lost...Tags: Market and Exchange, Trade Balance, Government Debt, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Drugs and Medicines
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SEC chairman expects markets to reopen Thursday
Tribune news servicesU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt said today he expected U.S. financial markets to open on Thursday. "It is our hope and expectation that the markets will resume operation tomorrow or as soon as tomorrow but I believe it will...Tags: NYSE Euronext, Inc., Transportation, Travel, World War II (1939-1945), Europe
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