Merck Litigation Strategy -- Destroy Expert Witnesses (Sierra Times) Former Vioxx users could be at risk of developing strokes for years, a prominent scientist said this week after evaluating new data from a 107-page report on patients who were followed for a year after they stopped the drug....more...People in business -- May 21, 2006 (Tennessean) Roger Blanton has joined MMA Creative, a Cookeville-based advertising and marketing agency, as an interactive graphic designer for its Web division. He is based in the Nashville office at Cummins Station. Blanton was a freelance graphic designer....more... Legg Mason, Teva, Federated Remind Investors of Perils of M&A (Bloomberg.com) May 19 (Bloomberg) -- When Legg Mason Inc. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. reported earnings last week, they reminded investors during one of the best years for mergers and acquisitions that making them work is hard to do....more... 2006 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS RESULTS (Independent Publisher) Judging is Complete! Here are the Final Results... The IPPY Awards judging is complete, and here is the list of winners and finalists in all 60 national categories for this year?s Tenth Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards....more... Extreme makeover: the diocese (National Catholic Reporter) By DENNIS CODAY Kansas City, Mo. Perhaps nowhere in America has the transition from a church focused on social engagement and lay empowerment to one more concerned with Catholic identity and evangelization been more dramatic, or in some ways more wrenching, than in the Kansas City-St....more... Obituaries - 5/07/2006 (North County Times) LAKE ELSINORE ---- E.C. Parker, 89, died Saturday, April 29, 2006. She was born Dec. 13, 1916, in Texas....more... |