| Schering-Plough Net Rises on Cholesterol Drugs' Sales (Update4)
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Schering-Plough Corp.'s fourth- quarter earnings surged 62 percent as the combined sales of its Vytorin and Zetia cholesterol drugs jumped to $1.1 billion. Net income rose to $204 million, or 12 cents a share, from $126 million, or 7 cents, a year earlier, the Kenilworth, New Jersey-based company said today in a statement. Revenue increased 14 percent to $2.7 billion, spurred by a 46 percent rise for Zetia and Vytorin. Chief Executive Officer Fred Hassan closed plants and fired 2,000 workers to cut $100 million in 2007 costs. Schering, the eighth-biggest drugmaker by sales, said it expects revenue from the company's cholesterol drugs to increase this year even as the treatments face competition from generic copies of Merck & Co.'s Zocor.
Thanks for bringing me back to life
A Welsh boatbuilder has thanked two paramedics who flew by air ambulance and used a new wonder drug to bring him back from the dead after his heart stopped. Grandfather Mike Webber, 57, of Porthmadog, thought the heart attack that almost killed him was indigestion caused by a burger gulped down at a pub lunch. But Mike owes his life to the speed and skill of Welsh Ambulance Service paramedics, Ian Binnington and Meurig McMillan, who were manning the North Wales Air Ambulance. Paramedic Team Leader Ian Binnington and Paramedic Meurig McMillan flw to the scene and Ian who was the attendant on the day disembarked from the aircraft and went to the ambulance to meet the crew and assess the patient. Michael was assessed in the back of the ambulance and Ian decided he fitted the criteria for Thrombolysis.
Anita Creamer: She wasn't too fit to face heart disease
Janie Daigle already knew the statistics. Before joining the state Department of Justice as an attorney, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Besides that, she served for several years in the mid-1990s on the local American Heart Association board. So she knew that cardiac disease is the leading cause of death for American women, killing five times as many women as breast cancer does each year, and that 8 million women in this country live with heart problems. But she was in great shape, a longtime runner who'd just earned her black belt in tae kwon do. .
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