But until and unless the manufacturing problems are resolved, investors should be very wary of Schering-Plough.
Much attention has been given to manufacturing problems at plants run by generic drug makers.
And the manufacturing problems certainly represent the kind of problem a new management team might think it could fix.
Last year, the U.S. faced a shortage of flu vaccine due to manufacturing problems at a Chiron plant in Britain.
Fixing its manufacturing problems could lead to rapid revenue growth just as Sanofi is losing sales to patent expirations.
"Outsiders were led to believe that Raul Cesan was the man with the ultimate responsibility for fixing the manufacturing problems, " says Seiden.
Unfortunately, federal regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have said they won't approve Clarinex until Schering resolves manufacturing problems at plants in New Jersey and Puerto Rico.
The final topic of discussion was an examination of the charges of poor performance and manufacturing problems leveled against the B-2 program by a General Accounting Office (GAO) study.
Last year, the U.S. faced a shortage of flu vaccine due to manufacturing problems at a Chiron (nasdaq: CHIR - news - people ) plant in Britain.
Back in February, regulators at the Food and Drug Administration said they wouldn't give Schering the go-ahead to market the antihistamine until it cleared up manufacturing problems with some of its plants.
Last year, federal regulators blamed heavy tube wear in the generators on a botched computer analysis that they said badly misjudged how water and steam would flow in the reactors, along with manufacturing problems.
The Airbus A380 was once the bright hope of EADS despite its controversial double-decker design, but between 2005 and 2006 manufacturing problems and delivery delays saw customers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service angrily cancel their orders.
Samin Sharma, a cardiologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, say she thinks most doctors would opt to use Cypher if it weren't for persistent manufacturing problems that can make the device harder for doctors to get.
Dennis Harp, a biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank, sees another reason for the increase: Amgen, he says, seems to finally be working its way through the manufacturing problems that have constrained the supply of its rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel.
Bernstein analysts Tim Anderson and Ronny Gal are out this morning with a note to investors suggesting that generic Lipitor could be delayed because of manufacturing problems at Ranbaxy, the first generic drug maker to file with the Food and Drug Administration and the company with whom Pfizer settled.
When the tool supplier is situated nearby, he says, communication between engineers is better and cheaper, leading to improved manufacturing and fewer quality problems.
In December, Qatar Airways grounded one of its 787 Dreamliners after several manufacturing faults caused electrical problems similar to those that affected the United plane.
It also needs to solve problems of manufacturing computers that don't just sit on a desk but can stand up to being worn all day, every day.
The other said that the agency still had significant problems with the manufacturing plant where Lumizyme is made.
The problems in the manufacturing sector, which is predominantly made up of small- and mid-sized enterprises, adds to worrying reports of highly pessimistic consumer confidence levels and poor retail sales.
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Media services firm MagnaGlobal, a division of advertising and marketing giant Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), recently lowered its 2012 forecast for total ad spending growth to 2.9 percent from 4.8 percent, pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing, consumer spending and ongoing problems in the labor and housing markets.
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And you can see that in urban areas all across the country where communities that may have been hollowed out when manufacturing left, or were having problems because of an aging population, suddenly you see an influx of immigration, and you see streets that were full of boarded-up buildings, suddenly they're vibrant with life once again.
Final approval will be contingent on Lilly fixing problems that have dogged its manufacturing plants.
However, one of Northern Ireland's problems is that exporting and manufacturing sector is reasonably small.
He became embroiled in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over problems with Schering's manufacturing procedures.
It listed among the possibilities a manufacturing flaw, a design defect or problems with external systems that charge and discharge the battery.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month inspected a company manufacturing plant in Minnesota and found no problems that could have caused the defect.
Most of Eprex's problems may also come from manufacturing--that would explain why the same side effects are not cropping up as often with Amgen's and Roche's drugs.
And I thought that this might mean that a newer design would be released to deal with the design problems that led to that manufacturing problem (specifically, the scratching of the anodised aluminium case).
But if any major manufacturing changes are needed to fix the electrical problems, the company could fall further behind in deliveries.
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