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hit a newsstand or your local library periodical room for the 12/9/13 issue of The New Yorker Magazine pg 50 Article entitled "The Big Sleep" - story of Merck's development of the new sleep aid - and the FDA's response. Very very insightful.....
 




























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Suvorexant licensing was bundled with Saphris and will be co-promoted with Forest. Don't hold your breath for this one.
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Makes sense. Merck has zero reps calling on neurology and Forest is ready to roll. Makes even more sense they just offered a few neuro HSC's the same job at Forest witbout having advanced degrees. HSC's making 135 to 150k salary here plus 36k bonus were offered 160-175 k plus 45k bonus at Forest. Many get a year's salary from Merck and get retirement too. I guess there is life after Merck, a damn good one. If you can get a sweet deal like this, run from Merck right quick.
 




I'm the OP - and believe it or not, I get the mag delivered - so I have a "hard copy" - this way I can pass it on to my parents - who are older and do not have a computer. Their cell phone - for emergencies only - is a flip phone.
I didn't think the article would be on line yet - for free - as the mag. was only delivered yesterday.

A great article!

Next time a Provider hassles me over the cost of Brand medicine, will direct him to this story - how much time/money was expended up to that FDA meeting?
Will we ever recoup those expenditures?
 




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I'm the OP - and believe it or not, I get the mag delivered - so I have a "hard copy" - this way I can pass it on to my parents - who are older and do not have a computer. Their cell phone - for emergencies only - is a flip phone.
I didn't think the article would be on line yet - for free - as the mag. was only delivered yesterday.

A great article!

Next time a Provider hassles me over the cost of Brand medicine, will direct him to this story - how much time/money was expended up to that FDA meeting?
Will we ever recoup those expenditures?
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The article was posted on the internet before the hard copy came out. No supscription. No money wasted, no paper wasted, it's free. Take a look at the posts before. It's called saving trees and the environment. It's the reason why the internet has taken over the world.
 




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The article was posted on the internet before the hard copy came out. No supscription. No money wasted, no paper wasted, it's free. Take a look at the posts before. It's called saving trees and the environment. It's the reason why the internet has taken over the world.
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To the OP:

Thank you for the heads up on the article. I too, prefer hardcopies. The printed word is becoming extinct. Kind of you to share.

To the second poster: No need to call him grandpa and berate him for not including the link. Get a life loser.
 
















Anonymous said:
The article was posted on the internet before the hard copy came out. No supscription. No money wasted, no paper wasted, it's free. Take a look at the posts before. It's called saving trees and the environment. It's the reason why the internet has taken over the world.
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Get your facts straight. The internet runs on green gases. Trees are replenish-able. Hard copies don't can be read anytime with no need for electricity.
 




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hit a newsstand or your local library periodical room for the 12/9/13 issue of The New Yorker Magazine pg 50 Article entitled "The Big Sleep" - story of Merck's development of the new sleep aid - and the FDA's response. Very very insightful.....
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Does not look like Merck's sleep drug has any advantage over Ambien.
 




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Does not look like Merck's sleep drug has any advantage over Ambien.
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I think you are right there. Merck's drug looks like an expensive me-too, and Ambien addressed the fact it does not keep you asleep with the CR version or the 4 hour patch pill ( can't remember name) they came out with. Plus Ambien is dirt cheap now. I cannot see how this would be an advantage.
 




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Get your facts straight. The internet runs on green gases. Trees are replenish-able. Hard copies don't can be read anytime with no need for electricity.
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Hard copies are soo last century. The cost associated with production and delivery of the periodical uses up a lot more energy than using a computer. Plus, the facts are, their website has a new invention called advertising, which more than makes up for loss of monthly subscription premiums. The facts are the facts. It takes 30 years for a tree to be replenished, and a lot longer for the big trees to be replenished. I guess they don't have trees where you come from.
 




trees are renewable producing seeds every year.
Paper is recyclable - do you recycle anything??

It was MY generation who cared enough about the Environment way back when to get the whole recycle - preserve - renew movement underway.
Anybody remember when Earth Day is celebrated?

All the rare earth elements that are required for all of your computers and hand held, mobile technology - what are YOU doing about the depletion of THOSE resources?
Do you even care?

So a hard copy of a magazine is read by 3 or more people and then recycled - vs all the trashed computers, laptops, ipads, cell phones etc; trashed because you all have to have the latest and greatest upgrades every year.....

I'll take my magazine delivered, passed along and recycled -
 




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trees are renewable producing seeds every year.
Paper is recyclable - do you recycle anything??

It was MY generation who cared enough about the Environment way back when to get the whole recycle - preserve - renew movement underway.
Anybody remember when Earth Day is celebrated?

All the rare earth elements that are required for all of your computers and hand held, mobile technology - what are YOU doing about the depletion of THOSE resources?
Do you even care?

So a hard copy of a magazine is read by 3 or more people and then recycled - vs all the trashed computers, laptops, ipads, cell phones etc; trashed because you all have to have the latest and greatest upgrades every year.....

I'll take my magazine delivered, passed along and recycled -
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ok, chill out.
 




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