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Summary Box: Large charges cut Merck's 3Q profit

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 10/29/2010 - 10:35

PROFIT PLUNGE: Big charges, including $950 million for a federal probe of Vioxx marketing and $2 billion before taxes related to buying Schering-Plough Corp., pulled quarterly profit down 90 percent....


 

Federal probe finds problems with chelation study

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 07/02/2009 - 09:13

A federal investigation has found problems with a controversial study of an alternative medicine treatment for heart attack victims....