News tagged with pfizer
Combination vaccine developed for smallpox and anthrax
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new combination vaccine against both smallpox and anthrax has been tested in animal studies and found to be more effective against anthrax than the Emergent BioSolutions Inc. vaccine currently ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Studies: Drug, device help treat heart failure
(AP) -- Millions of people with mild or moderate heart failure got good news Sunday, with studies showing a Pfizer drug and a device from Medtronic can boost survival and cut trips to the hospital by patients having trouble ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Alzheimer's advances show need for better drugs
Scientists are reporting advances in detecting and predicting Alzheimer's disease at a conference in Honolulu this week, plus more proof that getting enough exercise and vitamin D may lower your risk.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Pfizer lung cancer drug promising in early tests
(AP) -- It's way too soon to declare success, but an experimental drug for lung cancer patients with a certain gene showed extraordinary promise in early testing, doctors reported at a cancer conference on Saturday.
Jun 05, 2010 |
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Pfizer will stop selling poultry-pumping drug: US
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will voluntarily suspend US sales of a poultry-pumping additive after studies showed it can leave traces of arsenic in chicken livers, the US government said on Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Pfizer says patient died in oral RA drug study
(AP) -- Pfizer Inc. confirmed that one patient who was taking its drug candidate tofacitinib, a pill designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, died during a recent clinical trial and said the death was connected to the drug.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Cybersquatting disputes grow in 2010
The number of challenges for cybersquatting -- the misleading use of trademarks for Internet domain names -- rose by 28 percent last year, the World Intellectual Property Organisation said Thursday.
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Japan suspends two vaccines after infant deaths (Update)
Japan's health ministry has suspended two widely-used vaccines made by drugs giants Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis as it investigates whether they are linked to the recent deaths of four infants.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Pfizer will buy King Pharmaceuticals for $3.6B
(AP) -- Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday it will buy a company specializing in pain drugs in a $3.6 billion deal meant to shore up the portfolio of the world's largest drug company.
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms
The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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FDA approves larger dose of Pfizer's Aricept
(AP) -- Drugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of its Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept for patients who have already been taking ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 25, 2010 |
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Cancer wins may be bigger than they seem
(AP) -- Doctors reported gains against nearly every form of cancer at a conference that ended this week. Yet when Will Thomas heard about an advance against prostate cancer, he wanted to know just one thing: "Is it a cure?"
Jun 09, 2010 |
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FDA reviews update to Pfizer vaccine for kids
(AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Viagra developer Furchgott dead at 92: report
Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 24, 2009 |
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Free Lipitor, Viagra, other drugs for jobless
(AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is unveiling a new program Thursday that will let people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications - including Lipitor and Viagra ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 14, 2009 |
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Pfizer
Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE: PFE) is a pharmaceutical company, ranking number one in sales in the world. The company is based in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. It produces Lipitor (atorvastatin, used to lower blood cholesterol); the neuropathic pain/fibromyalgia drug Lyrica (pregabalin); the oral antifungal medication Diflucan (fluconazole), antibiotic Zithromax (azithromycin), Viagra (sildenafil citrate), and the anti inflammatory Celebrex (celecoxib) (also known as Celebra in some countries outside USA and Canada, mainly in South America).
Pfizer's shares were made a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average on April 8, 2004.
On January 26, 2009, Pfizer agreed to buy pharmaceutical giant Wyeth for US$68 billion, a deal financed with cash, shares and loans.
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