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Six drug companies to slash AIDS drug prices

...spearheaded by U.N. agencies to prevent and treat the epidemic. Senior executives from Abbott Laboratories Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffman-La Roche, Pfizer and Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim pledged to accelerate price...

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Working Mother releases list of top 100 companies; some lauded for family friendly perks

...headquarters. Software company SAS provides take-home dinners and a hairstylist three times a week. Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. sends baby formula to employees' homes for a newborn's first year. These and other perks make the companies...

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AARP joining class-action suit against pharmaceutical manufacturers

...joined the three cases because they involve drugs widely used by Americans aged 50 and older. One lawsuit charges Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. of illegally maintaining a monopoly on BuSpar, an anti-anxiety drug. Another alleges Schering-Plough...

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Extending blood thinner treatment reduces deaths, study says

...said Dr. Eric Topol of Cleveland Clinic. He helped conduct the research and also works as a consultant for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Sanofi-Synthelabo, which market the drug and paid for the study. Dr. Robert Bonow, president of...

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Computer classes spur student absenteeism

...the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2004. The key ingredient in the breast cancer drug Taxol owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is taken from the bark of the yew tree and Wyeth's kidney transplant drug Rapamune comes from Easter Island...

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Blood thinning drug Plavix found effective in treating victims of mild heart attack

...Orlando of the American College of Cardiology. It was financed by Plavix's makers, Sanofi-Synthelabo and Bristol-Myers Squibb. It was conducted on 12,562 patients in 28 countries who had acute coronary syndrome. These are patients with...

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Names and faces

...gets into the act. On Monday, Armstrong and his 17-month-old son, Luke, shot a 60-second commercial for Bristol-Myers Squibb. The pharmaceutical company makes the chemotherapy drugs that helped Armstrong win his battle against cancer...

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Drug companies drop lawsuit against South Africa over cheaper AIDS drugs

...eye," Mark Heywood of the group Treatment Action Campaign said of the companies, which include giants Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim. "And I think it will embolden people in developing countries around...

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Procter & Gamble to acquire Clairol for nearly $5 billion

...number of brands in the food business in an effort to boost profits. Procter is buying the Clairol business from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., which put it up for sale last September so it can focus on its drug business. Clairol is a world leader...

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Mideast crisis gives Wall Street another reason to be uncertain

...crisis wasn't the only reason investors sold. A handful of reduced earnings forecasts -- the biggest from Bristol-Myers Squibb -- provided an inauspicious start to the first-quarter earnings season and led some investors to question whether...

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