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- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Country : United States
- City: Whitehouse Station
- State: New Jersey - NJ
- Address: 1 Merck Dr.
- Zipcode: 08889-0100
- Category: Fortune 1000 Companies
- Description: Fast food slowing you down? Drugs treating ailments associated with American eating habits -- high cholesterol, hypertension, and heart failure - are the Merck's biggest business. Leading the battle against too many greasy burgers are Merck's prominent cholesterol drugs Zocor and Mevacor and hypertension drugs Vasotec and Prinivil. Other drugs include Crixivan, a leading protease inhibitor and pain management drug Vioxx. Merck and Johnson & Johnson maintain a consumer drug alliance that markets such products as ulcer drug Pepcid. The company doesn't just treat humans: Merck and Aventis together own one of the world's top animal health companies, Merial.
- Products: Pharmaceuticals