Reuters Breaks News at Health Summit; Reuters Health Summit Exclusive News Content to be Found on Reuters.com and Reuters Terminals.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2003 Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY, LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : RTR RTR Ready To Run RTR Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs Gmbh RTR Rotor RTR Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (Romansh Radio and Television, Switzerland) RTR Response Time Reporter RTR Ready To Race RTR Ready to Roll ), the global information company, is today holding the second day of its newsbreaking Reuters Health Summit, taking place at the Reuters America headquarters in Times Square, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The text, photo and video coverage of the event can be found exclusively at Reuters.com (http://www.reuters.com) and on Reuters terminals. This event follows on from last week's successful Reuters Finance Summit where leaders in finance such as Phil Purcell, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. ; Harvey Goldschmid Harvey Goldschmid is currently a law professor at Columbia University. From 2002 to 2005, he served as a member of the Securities & Exchange Commission, where he was an "intellectual heavyweight" who, as a Democrat, was a chief ally of reformist Republican chairman William , SEC Commissioner; and Eliot Spitzer Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10 1959 ) is an American lawyer, politician and the current Governor of New York. Spitzer was elected governor in the November 2006 election. , New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Attorney General met with leading Reuters finance correspondents. Here are yesterday's highlights from the Reuters Health Summit: -- Reuters obtained an exclusive interview with Guidant Chief Executive Ronald Dollens, who for the first time said the medical device maker's drug-coated stent would be the market leader in its first year on the multi-billion dollar market. That's despite major competition from Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp., who will have had a big head start by the time Guidant reaches the market in 2006. Dollens made the bold prediction to Reuters reporters at the Reuters Health Summit. -- Investors in Aventis got a major heads-up on news the company would miss the winter and early spring respiratory season to launch it's new antibiotic Ketek, and would instead likely wait until late next summer to launch the potential blockbuster. Shares in the Franco-German drugmaker slipped on the news. -- In an exclusive interview, Pfizer's top researcher Peter Corr told the Reuters Health Summit he expects the company's experimental cholesterol drug to be its biggest yet -- perhaps even exceeding sales of the world's top-selling drug, Pfizer's Lipitor. -- Giving a glimpse into Pfizer's intentions on an experimental arthritis drug from Britain's Celltech Group, Pfizer research chief Peter Corr also told the Reuters Health Summit he intends to pursue the drug despite some recent speculation that Pfizer might put it on the back burner. The drug is one of Celltech's highest hopes for success. At today's Reuters Health Summit, a highlight will be the appearance of Ray Gilmartin, CEO of Merck, following last night's announcement of the cancellation of a late stage experimental drug for diabetes. This marks the second disappointment for Merck in two weeks, whose earnings growth has stalled in recent years as five other big-selling drugs lost patent protection. Also among those appearing at today's event will be Acting HealthSouth CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Guy Sansone, Roche CEO Franz Humer and Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan. Martin Howell, Editor-in-Charge, Equities, Reuters America said: "Reuters is known for breaking news that moves the markets. Building on the recent success of the Reuters Finance Summit and now the Reuters Health Summit we will continue to lead the market by bringing exclusive access to the people and issues that matter." 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