It’s usually mid-July before I subject readers to my annual Give-Me-Air-Conditioning-or-Give-Me-Death column. Yet here it is only June 29, and I’m already a month late. That May heat wave caught me off guard; I wasn’t prepared to start whining this soon.
It seems as though one day I was pouring water on my flowers and the […]
Tuesday night a group of parents will ask the San Diego school board to remove all peanut products from school cafeterias and classrooms and to keep treatments for allergic reactions on all campuses.
It’s the latest chapter in a growing debate — how far should public institutions go to protect children with peanut allergies, the most […]
KENILWORTH, N.J., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Schering-Plough
Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today announced that it will establish
Schering-Plough Produtos Farmaceuticos Limitada as a wholly owned country
operation based in Sao Paulo to market its core products, and will
restructure its agreement with Mantefarma, a privately held company in
Brazil.
“The actions announced today are […]
FRIDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) — Many teens with food allergies are gambling with their lives by not carrying their medications with them and by eating foods they know can be risky, researchers report.
Only 61 percent of subjects in the study said they always carried their dose of epinephrine, a self-injected drug used during severe […]
Beverley Taylor, 37, died last year while spending the afternoon with family, including her husband, Iain, and their two daughters, Laura 14, and Emily, 12.
The family suffered a double tragedy as Mr Taylor, 45, died suddenly only months later.
Mrs Taylor, who had a history of allergies including peanuts, eggs, dairy, wheat, eggs, dust mites and […]
For decades, allergy sufferers in Europe and much of South America have been able to control their allergies with daily under-the-tongue drops instead of shots.
And while the prescription drops are not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration, their use is spreading across the U.S.
In April, Dr. Todd Zachs, a West Hartford, Conn., ear, […]
Schering-Plough yesterday eliminated the jobs of 1,100 manufacturing workers — including 500 full-time employees in New Jersey — in the single largest job cut by the drugmaker in recent years.
The Kenilworth company cast away about 3 percent of its workforce by cutting jobs in Union and Kenilworth and at two sites in Puerto Rico, […]
New competitive intelligence from Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority(R), details the consumer’s online experience while researching medical conditions and leading prescription drugs online — and determines which sites and online features are most effective at driving patients to their doctors to discuss medications. The Keynote Best Practices Study of Pharmaceutical Web Sites is […]
By Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drug maker Schering-Plough Corp. on Thursday said it would cut 1,100 jobs at its plants in Puerto Rico and New Jersey — about 3.3 percent of its global work force — as it reduces operations with excess manufacturing capacity.
All four of the affected plants have improved their […]
Schering-Plough Corp. is cutting 1,100 jobs, closing one manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico and streamlining operations at other plants there and in New Jersey.
The moves will cost about $235 million to $260 million and save the company about $100 million in 2007, the Kenilworth, NewJersey-based drugmaker said in a statement. The plant at Manati, Puerto […]