Merck sells vaccine lab to PPD in research deal

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Pharmaceutical Product Development, a large contract research company, has purchased Merck & Co's vaccine testing laboratory as part of a collaboration with the drugmaker, PPD said on Monday.

The deal is the latest between the pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations, as drugmakers seek to cut costs and be more efficient with their huge research budgets.

PPD bought Merck's 130,000 square-foot vaccine testing laboratory and related equipment in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and hired nearly 80 Merck workers who operate the facility

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Psychologists and literary historians cooperate on conclusion: There's probably no such thing as repressed memories.

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Here is a good example of how history and medicine can cross over: It seems that there are no historical references to repressed memories before 1800, when novelists began using it as a plot device, not in fiction and not in nonfiction. Scientists and literary scholars collaborated on this project, which was written up in [i]Psychological Medicine[/i].

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