| Wyeth Plans Generic Protonix; Litigation With Teva to Continue
Wyeth said it is introducing a generic version of its blockbuster drug Protonix, signaling that the company has been unable reach a settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. that would protect the heartburn drug's exclusivity. Teva, a big Israeli generic-drug maker, is embroiled in a lawsuit filed by Wyeth claiming a violation of Protonix's patent, which is set to expire in 2010. Teva introduced a generic version of the drug in December, eating into Protonix's sales, but then agreed to temporarily halt selling its rival product, known as pantoprazole, as the companies engaged in settlement talks. Protonix, one of Wyeth's top sellers, posted $1.45 billion of sales in the first nine months of 2007. Wyeth yesterday said its generic version would be distributed by Prasco Laboratories, a closely held Cincinnati company.
The last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is under construction in ...
Phan, then 15, fled with her mother and seven siblings for Guam. They went to Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base in California, then to Northern Virginia. But her father, Tung Phan, a general in the South Vietnamese Army, stayed behind with his troops. He told his wife he would kill himself before being captured by the North. Days went by. Then weeks. Still no word. The Phans feared the worst. Then Tung Phan called on the phone. He had been airlifted out the day of the surrender to a Navy ship in the Pacific. Soon, he was on his way to Northern Virginia. "Big relief!" said Giao Phan, near tears at the memory. Giao (pronounced Yow) Phan, now 46, is the Navy’s assistant program manager on the George H.W. Bush project. Among other things, she helps oversee budgets and works with the shipyard to determine technical specifications.
Piano Wire Puppeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich
Late one night in Caracas, I met with a couple of fellas, mercenaries I think you call them. Goddamit, I keep doing that. I mean "contractors." They were Brits, their specialty: drug interdiction. These two were no great fans of Chavez. They called him "radical" and expected him to fall to an assassin's bullet within the year. Like him or not, he had the cash to win their acceptance of his employ. And working alongside the Venezuelan military, these two, based in Caracas, had played the mountainous and jungled border between Columbia and Venezuela. A zone rife with paramilitaries, FARC guerillas, and mer…scratch that, contractors. What I was told that evening in Caracas by these piano wire puppeteers was that they had never worked for a government whose investment in drug interdiction was so genuine.
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