Novartis certainly needs something to get Entresto moving. The drug managed only $5 million in sales in the fourth quarter, a bit short of consensus estimates of $54.8 million. The company forecasts $5 billion in peak annual sales.
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The first ever Google Doodle celebrating, which was used on August 30, 1998. A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people. The first Google Doodle honored the Burning Man festival in 1998, and was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor until 2000, when Page and Brin asked public relations officer Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day. Sin