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Advertisements appearing this week that attack GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. don't beat around the bush: "DON'T BE FOOLED: GlaxoSmithKline's scare tactics are only concerned with protecting its profit, not the health of people with HIV/AIDS," the ads read.

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A good pitchman can boost any product's name recognition with some high-quality shilling. A bad one, on the other hand, can quickly ruin the brand images that companies spend years and millions carefully honing.

Rising medical costs helped knock down the second-quarter profit for health insurer WellPoint Inc., but investors lifted the company's stock yesterday after it beat Wall Street expectations in a tough market. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield health-plan operator saw its profit fall 10 percent, as benefit expenses rose nearly 5 percent to $11.9 billion. The company also narrowed its outlook for 2008.

The only vaccine approved to target human papillomavirus is under fire as reports surface of serious side effects and even death among young women who received it.

L.A. city attorney's suit contends Blue Shield of California has illegally rescinded the coverage of more than 850 policyholders since 2002. When Blue Shield of California learned that Ana Maria Simoes needed emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder, the company OKd the operation but also turned the case over to its investigative unit, according to corporate records disclosed Wednesday.

L.A. city attorney's suit contends Blue Shield of California has illegally rescinded the coverage of more than 850 policyholders since 2002. When Blue Shield of California learned that Ana Maria Simoes needed emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder, the company OKd the operation but also turned the case over to its investigative unit, according to corporate records disclosed Wednesday. ...