Merck News

The following five companies all yield big dividends. To continue paying dividends at high rates, companies need to have growing or stable earnings that equate to positive cash flows.

Since I first promoted Gilead Sciences in my bullish article here , the stock has taken off like a rocket and gained 40.8%, beating the Dow Jones more than 6x over.

Johnson & Johnson , Pfizer Inc. A ,A Amgen, Inc. A : The FDA released guidelines for the first shortcut to the U.S. market for "biosimilar" drugs, less expensive versions of expensive and complex medicines made from biological matter.

RWJ Rahway Foundation and the Rose Ball Committee are pleased to announced Larry Naldi, RWJ Rahway Board of Governors member and Senior Vice President Strategy & Integration at Merck & Co, Inc., is being inducted into the 2012 Guardians of the Rose.

The Fed's promise of low interest rates is exciting news to both investors and companies.

Kennewick, Wash. - A new leader with deep knowledge of science, finance and marketing was chosen as executive director of the Washington Wine Commission .

The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company managing approximately $1.6 trillion in assets.

More than 50 people have joined a lawsuit accusing the manufacturers of drugs used to treat male pattern baldness of failing to warn patients about dangerous side effects.

HOTBEDS Regional News US & Canada Biotech Bay Biotech Beach Genetown Pharm Country BioCapital BioMidwest Bio NC BioForest Southern Pharm BioCanada East US Device Europe Asia Global pharma major Merck, which formed a joint venture with Sun Pharma, said that it was open for more alliances/ partnerships with other Indian companies as part of the ... (more)

I posted an article back in August about the attractiveness of buying low-beta stocks with solid dividends .

The FDA released long-awaited guidance for drug makers who are poised to jump into the market for biosimilars, lower-priced versions of complex biologic medicines.

I have identified five interesting stocks that recently reported earnings. While Electronic Arts lost money, Merck , Boston Scientific , Las Vegas Sands , and Qualcomm were able to generate income.

Merck & Co's recently approved Victrelis treatment for hepatitis C considerably lessens the effectiveness of some widely used medicines against the virus that causes AIDS, Merck and U.S. regulators said in separate reports.

Mr. Warner comes to the Commission from Merck & Co., Inc., where he was Managing Director based in Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Shenk is leaving the board to focus on the new company he is forming to commercialize discoveries made in his Princeton University laboratory in the area of antiviral therapeutics.

Pharmaceutical companies remain under pressure as they deal with increased competition from each other, which threatens their market share.

HOTBEDS Regional News US & Canada Biotech Bay Biotech Beach Genetown Pharm Country BioCapital BioMidwest Bio NC BioForest Southern Pharm BioCanada East US Device Europe Asia A new study further eases fears that the rotavirus vaccine might increase the risk of blocked bowels in infants -- a concern that led to an earlier version of the vaccine being ... (more)

Merck announces that top-line results of a study on Vorapaxar show that the drug significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular events.

What follows is a list of companies with PE ratios above 20, typically indicative of an expensive stock .

An experimental anti-clotting drug that Readington-based Merck & Co. is developing was found to increase risk of dangerous internal bleeding in a second study, meaning it's unlikely to achieve the blockbuster status once expected - if it's even approved.