Recent news on Primaxin

Ranbaxy will challenge Merck patent dispute  -  May 2, 2007
Business Standard,Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, reported $705 million in Primaxin sales for 2006. ``We don’t think we’ve infringed,’’ Peter Burema,

Source of Soldiers' Resistant Infections Still Mysterious  -  May 16, 2007
MedPage Today,The best performance was seen with imipenem (Primaxin), to which more than 80% of isolates were susceptible. But resistance ranged from:

Pharma cos unfazed by US regulatory hurdles  -  May 4, 2007
Economic Times,On Monday, US’s third largest drug maker Merck has challenged Ranbaxy attempt to market a generic copy of antibiotic Primaxin IM alleging infringement of

Merck Reports Strong Financial Results for First-Quarter 2007  -  Apr 19, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Other reported products comprise: AGGRASTAT, ARCOXIA, CANCIDAS, COSOPT, CRIXIVAN, EMEND, INVANZ, JANUVIA, MAXALT, PRIMAXIN, PROPECIA, PROSCAR, STOCRIN,

Superbugs driving blockbusters  -  Mar 7, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com,Primaxin`s US patent expires in 2009, after which 'sales will decline dramatically,' Eash said. The drug is expected to generate sales of $340 million in

Merck Announces 2006 Financial Results that Demonstrate Solid ...  -  Jan 30, 2007
Business Wire (press release),COSOPT, CRIXIVAN, EMEND, INVANZ, JANUVIA, MAXALT, PRIMAXIN, PROPECIA, PROSCAR, STOCRIN, TIMOPTIC/TIMOPTIC XE, TRUSOPT, VASOTEC/VASERETIC and ZOLINZA.

Patent Expiries of Leading Antibiotics From Several Pharmaceutical ...  -  Jan 9, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),Sanofi-Aventis's Tavanic, Daiichi-Sankyo's Cravit, Merck's Primaxin, Abbott's Omnicef, AstraZeneca's Merrem, and Wyeth's Zosyn together generated more

Merck Remains Confident in Future Growth as it Executes on New ...  -  Dec 12, 2006
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Other reported products comprise: AGGRASTAT, ARCOXIA, CANCIDAS, COSOPT, CRIXIVAN, EMEND, INVANZ, MAXALT, PRIMAXIN, PROPECIA, PROSCAR, STOCRIN, TIMOPTIC ...

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