i feel a strong desire to demonstrate keytruda versus other therapies. these are people's lives we're talking about and you don't get many chances to receive treatment for what is, in many cases, a lethal diagnosis. i want to make sure if there is an advantage for keytruda that patients have the opportunity to get that. if i felt confident of that, i wouldn't hesitate to do a head-to-head so one of the new waves of immune therapy is to combine different approaches to extend benefits to more patients. tell us about your philosophy in partnering with external partners or trying to have those conversations all in house at merck. >> one of the interesting things about keytruda preclinically in animal models is that it seems to work well with other agents. all kinds of other agents. it combines with radiation therapy, traditional chemotherapy, with other kinds of immumotherapies. what we've tried to use those studies to focus our attention on new agents and we're doing that both with our own agents and in partnership with others, there have been interesting r

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i mean, unclear, really, how much this would necessarily add to overall keytruda.in hundreds of combination studies here there may be some concerns just over the safety, until we understand what drove the reports and, really, it may not be anything having to do with the drug we'll wait for more information, but certainly never good news to hear that about a study. >> of course a 1% decline in the stock. not huge, thank you. >> thank you >>> time now for a cnbc news update back to sue. sue? >> this is what's happening at this hour, everyone. the defense delivering its closing arguments in the bill cosby sexual assault trial cosby's lawyer told jurors that constant's story a new study shows 2 billion adults and children around the world are overweight or obese and suffer health problems because of it equating to one-third of the world's population the u.s. has the greatest percentage of obese children and young adults at 13%. not a good statistic kelly, back to you >> wondering, sue, back to the pour ball, if they get a million bucks, is that an income tax or sales t