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  American Experience | The Pill | People & Events
For Searle, a boycott could mean the loss of one fourth of its personnel and a considerable portion of its hospital business.
Searle took notice of women's desires for an easy and effective female-controlled contraceptive and opened their eyes to the Pill's potential.
By the late 50s, Searle was delighted with their gamble to support research that other drug companies and the government had avoided.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_searle.html   (669 words)

  
  Searle (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Searle is known for its release of Enovid (the Pill), the first commercial oral contraceptive for birth control, in 1957.
William L. Searle was a Harvard graduate and Naval reservist, and was an officer in the Army Chemical Corps in the early 1950s.
Donald Rumsfeld was president and CEO of G.D. Searle and Company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Searle_(company)   (636 words)

  
 Searle History
In 1937, ‘Searle Aircraft Sheet Metalwork Limited (London)’ was formed, closely followed in 1938 by ‘Searle Radiator Repairs Limited (Fareham)’ The outbreak of the war brought major changes and there was a huge increase in the variety of products manufactured, the majority of which were used by the RAF.
Searle’s success was continued in 1953 when it won the exclusive rights to manufacture and market Bush Refrigeration equipment throughout Europe and Africa, from Dunham Bush Inc of West Hartford USA.
The Family company was sold in 1963 to Hall-Thermotank when it became ‘Searle Manufacturing Company Ltd.’ Leslie Searle retired in 1965.
www.searle.co.uk /client/docs/en/history.htm   (314 words)

  
 SEARLE OPPOSES ITS USE FOR ABORTION Searle Company Warns Of
Searle developed Cytotec to help prevent gastric ulcers among people, such as those suffering from arthritis, who have to take a lot of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (aspirin, etc.).
Searle indicates that it is aware that there are those using its product for "induction of labor" and for "cervical ripening prior to termination of pregnancy," but warns doctors that "Serious adverse events" including "maternal and fetal death" and "uterine hyperstimulation, rupture, and perforation" have been associated with "off-label" uses of the drug.
Searle says in its physician alert that the company has not conducted research on Cytotec for these uses and has no intention of doing so.
www.nrlc.org /RU486/randy.html   (1300 words)

  
 Aspartame do you all recognise these names
The Searle company, whose sales were 700 million in 1992 (Therrien 42), had much to gain from the approval of aspartame.
The Searle company's effort to produce a clear picture on the safety of aspartame is at best a weak attempt.
Searle's evaluation of aspartame's safety was compromised when they withheld negative data and supplied inaccurate test results.
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At first, G.D. Searle claimed that they did not submit the MBR Report to the FDA because of an "oversight." Later, they claimed that Dr. Mauro's MBR report was not submitted because they did not like the terminology Dr. Mauro used in evaluating the thyroid slides.
G.D. Searle seemed so intent on covering up their misconduct, that it is quite likely that they were able to hide many of the problems from the FDA.
G.D. Searle president, Donald Rumsfeld's connections to the Republican party were also thought to play a part in Searle's decision to reapply for aspartame's approval on the day after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated (Gordon 1987, page 499 of US Senate 1987).
www.holisticmed.com /aspartame/history.faq   (10454 words)

  
 flamesong: aspartame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
G.D. Searle's responses to queries about the testing of their drug Flagyl, serious and unexpected side effect from other drugs they developed, and information from Dr. John Olney's studies started a controversy within the FDA as to the quality and validity of G.D. Searle's test of aspartame and pharmaceuticals (Congressional Record 1985a).
Searle officers passed along campaign contributions of $2,000 to a key lawmaker, and the company soon had won passage of legislation crushing Monte's efforts to force tough state restrictions on the sweetener.
Searle officials declined to discussed the patent extension, but a company lobbyist, former White House official William Timmons, said the company "felt there was an injustice" in the delays following aspartame's 1974 approval.
www.flamesong.com /aspartame   (12569 words)

  
 Searle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The company was formally incorporated as G.D. Searle and Co. in 1908.
Searle’s special market was selling syrups, elixirs, tinctures, and a variety of other products to doctors who dispensed their own medications for their patients, bypassing the drug store.
Many “firsts” followed for Searle, including production of the first modern bulk laxative, the first motion-sickness drug, the first oral contraceptive, the first modern antiarrhythmic, the first specific oral anti-diarrheal, and the first once-a-day calcium channel-blocker for the treatment of hypertension.
www.bioanalytical.com /info/calendar/99/08searle.htm   (269 words)

  
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Though this occurred at Searle with the COX-2 program in the 1990s, it was too late to maintain the survival of the company (even though the program has been tremendously successful and beat rival Merck to the marketplace).
He is active in the Chicago biotech scene as chairman of the board of two companies in Chicago (MIICRO and the Female Health Company) as well as chairman and CEO of the investment group Phoenix Health Care.
The acquisition of Searle by Monsanto in 1985.
www.eprairie.com /printer/article.asp?newsletterID=4627   (2177 words)

  
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The investigation was to focus on possible criminal charges against officials in the G. Searle Company "for concealing material facts and making false statements" in reports of safety tests on NutraSweet and the drug, Aldactone.
A year after he was initially informed of FDA's interest in prosecuting Searle, and two months after he received the agency's formal request for grand jury action, he "recused" himself from the case, citing preliminary employment discussions with the law firm of Sidley and Austin, the firm which was then defending Searle in the investigation.
These documents raise the question as to whether the investigation of the G.D. Searle Company and in particular, the food additive, NutraSweet, was properly conducted.
www.aspartamekills.com /mpvalley/metzen2.htm   (1457 words)

  
 Searle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Rogers Searle, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
G.D. Searle and Company, known for its Enovid (the Pill) and NutraSweet.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Searle   (99 words)

  
 News - EMR Labs, LLC
In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet.
Spring 1967-- Searle begins the safety tests on aspartame that are necessary for applying for FDA approval of food additives.
October 15, 1982-- The FDA announces that Searle has filed a petition that aspartame be approved as a sweetener in carbonated beverages and other liquids.
www.quantumbalancing.com /news/aspartameapproved.htm   (1715 words)

  
 Aspertame
He said the main witnesses, Searle executives, and top FDA officials uninvolved in the investigation gave "the wrong answers to the wrong questions"...They didn't even let the experts answer the questions.
The report said Searle laboratory employee Raymond Schroeder, who worked on related research, first told investigators the feed in the study of the aspartame breakdown product DKP (diketopiperazine) was so inadequately mixed it appeared the rats could "discriminate" and avoid eating the DKP.
Schiffman said Anylan had no role in Searle's promise to cover all costs of the study, which is expected to cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars." She said she took no salary for her work.
www.greatfallspro.com /aspertame.htm   (11369 words)

  
 Aspartame: The History Of A Killer - The Whole StoryBy Arthur M. Evangelista
Hatch received contributions of $1,000 each from Daniel Searle, Wesley Dixon, and William Searle on Nov. 11, 1982, days after he was reelected to a second term in which he continued as chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee that oversees the FDA.
The success of the Searle family business, founded 80 years ago, is all the more astounding when compared to the company's predicament in 1977 when it plucked Rumsfeld as its president.
The huge, St. Louis-based chemical company and its officers were promptly met with stockholder suits alleging they had failed to explore potential safety problems with Searle's biggest moneymakers- Copper 7 IUD and NutraSweet.
www.whale.to /b/as.html   (14931 words)

  
 James Turner on Aspartame (1998 Interview)
Everyone who's looked at those tests say they're inadequate, and there's never been an effort on the part of Searle that we know of to reproduce those, although Betty has indicated that she's got information that they were reproduced, they did cause cancer again and the Searle company hid the results.
Aside from the FDA studies, all the studies that say NutraSweet is safe were paid for by the NutraSweet company, and all the studies that raise questions about its safety were not paid for by the NutraSweet company.
The law on that instance however, the legal standard was not that somebody had to show that it did cause cancer, what was necessary was that the company show that it did not cause cancer.
www.dorway.com /jturninv.html   (5086 words)

  
 ICG: Searle, Dawmec supplying the refrigeration and air-conditioning industries
ICG: Searle, Dawmec supplying the refrigeration and air-conditioning industries
Searle launches new range of dry air coolers and condensers at RAC launch event.
Welcome to the web-site for Searle, Raffel and Dawmec -European leaders in the design
www.searle.co.uk   (86 words)

  
 G.D. Searle & Company (Pharmacia Company)
This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman sitting infront of a globe.
Pharmacia Corporation is a first-tier global pharmaceutical company with an industry-leading growth rate, a robust product portfolio, a high-potential research and development pipeline, and a dynamic agricultural subsidiary in Monsanto Company.
These are described in a detailed Environment, Safety and Health Report that includes the corporate ESH policy, discussions of the company's approach to some significant issues, stories about successful ESH initiatives at the local level and a detailed accounting of Pharmacia waste generation and waste management worldwide.
www.scripophily.net /gdsearcom.html   (663 words)

  
 News Nation :: View topic - Aspartame = poison?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals.
The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it.
Much worse, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.
www.newsnation.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=424   (13262 words)

  
 Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company: The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company: Working for a healthier world™
Pfizer Inc is a pharmaceutical company committed to helping people improve their health by discovering and developing medicines.
www.pfizer.com /pfizer/mn_pharmacia_splash.jsp   (247 words)

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