Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...al cancer is quite misleading, they say. Merck used their deep pockets to make sure that even before the FDA had approved Gardasil, The marketing juggernaut was multifaceted and meticulously planned. In 2005 Merck started by funding a campaign called "Make the Connection," run by avowed non-governmental or...

Giant Healthcare Provider to Set Up Massive Gene Bank

... A biobank with juggernaut proportions will soon be established as part of U.S health care provider Kaiser Permanente’s project: Kaiser// Permanente Research Program on Genes, E...

Defeating the 'Diabesity' Beast

...odern commercial drive to market unhealthy foods everywhere and seduce us into ever more sedentary leisure means we are facing a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of obesity and diabetes. “Our state and federal politicians need to accept that major legislative and other regulatory measures are needed.” ...

juggernaut in Biological News

Bats pick up rustling sounds against highway background noise

...ke trying to locate rustling treats just metres from a roaring highway. It would seem to be almost impossible to pick out a centipede's footsteps as a juggernaut hurtles past; or is it? How animals that locate their prey by sound alone cope in our increasingly noisy world puzzles Bjrn Siemers from the Max Planc...

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The Israeli life science juggernaut

Last week, I traveled to Israel as part of an Illinois trade mission to promote Illinois as a point of entry into the U.S. market to Israeli companies. I was one of two persons representing the Life Science sector among multiple sectors of Illinois business present. I was particularly interes...

Outflanking the Google, Yahoo, MSN juggernaut

The giant is under attack on multiple flanks. Google , the Internet utility and search-engine king, home to 64.1 percent of all U.S. searches in March 2007, according to Hitwise , is drawing out entrepreneurs and other search giants looking for strategies and niches where they can slay the gian...

Leading global Big Pharma companies of 2005

...ritual that I have followed with eagerness as I grew up in the pharmaceutical industry, initiating in my 10 years at Pfizer (way before Pfizer was the juggernaut it is today). At Pfizer, we were all anxious to see the annual company ranking results to see how our company fared against our competition: had we mo...