| Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
Top: Young MikeK playing with Evel Knievel action figure; bottom: MikeK receives inspiration from his childhood friends before leaving for a Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting. I had a classic Evel Knievel motorcycle riding action figure when I was a kid. The stunts my brothers and I would stage for that motorcycle toy were legendary (riding out a second story window, chasing the dog around the house without getting chewed to ribbons, you name it). RIP Evel. I wonder what happened to Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man who played the role of Evel's arch-nemesis in the boyhood action figure wars?/Councilman MikeK. Question: What was your favorite action figure/doll when you were little? .
Trouble Brewing? - Merck, Schering-Plough Get New York Subpoena Over ...
1/27/2008 1:43:13 AM New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) and Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) on Saturday seeking documents to probe whether the companies had concealed the study results of their controversial blockbuster drug Vyotrin.
Cuomo in a statement said, We will investigate and, when appropriate, hold accountable drug companies for engaging in irresponsible and deceptive conduct and any deceitful marketing of prescription drugs."
The issuance of this subpoena comes a day after the FDA said it would review the effectiveness of Vyotrin after Merck released the long-awaited study results of that drug.
MRK closed Friday's trade down 3.57% or $1.77 at $47.79 on a volume of 64.98 million shares. In after-hours, the stock shed another $0.19 and was at $47.60.
Training Medical Warriors: Tropical Medicine Specialists Who Ward Off ...
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 1963, when Karl Johnson, M.D., chose to set up a laboratory in Bolivia for the National Institutes of Health instead of taking a job working on a vaccine for the common cold, little did he know that his research would lay the foundation for the containment of numerous deadly infectious diseases around the world. With just a quick built laboratory, a few microscopes, mosquito nets and syringes, Dr. Johnson and his colleagues were able to identify Machupo virus, a hemorrhagic fever that had reached epidemic proportions in the South American country. More than 30 years later, that break through, along with groundbreaking research on several other viruses, continues to aid scientists to identify and contain life-threatening diseases such as Ebola and Sin Nombre, which have both reached American soil, but thanks to the pioneering research of Dr.
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