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Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Layoffs, General Electric, Video, Fortune 500, Unemployment, Corporate Profits, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Fortune, Corporate Earnings, Wal-Mart, Business News

Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...

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Gambling With Your Health: The Dangers Of Counterfeit Drugs

John Clark | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Counterfeit Drugs Pfizer, Bblog-Pfizer, Counterfeit Drugs, Counterfeit Drug Business, Pfizer, Health News, Counterfeit Drugs Worldwide, Online Pharmacy, Healthy Living News

Boric acid. Lead paint. Floor wax. Rat poison. You might expect to find these under your sink, but these substances have also made dangerous appearances where you would least suspect: in counterfeit medicines.

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Nestle To Buy Pfizer Nutrition For $11.9 Billion

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Pfizer, Mergers and Acquisitions, Pfizer Nutrition, Nestle, Reuters, Business News

* Swiss group beats out rival Danone for Pfizer unit * Group pays almost 5 times unit's expected 2012 sales ...

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Nestle's Baby Boom

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Baby Formula, Pfizer, Chinese Baby Formula, Baby Boom, Asia, Baby Food, Nestle, Chinese Consumers, China, Asian Consumers, Deals, Business News

Nestle might soon be be feeding a lot more babies. The world's largest food and nutrition company is in final talks to buy Pfizer's infant nutriti...

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The Stealing of America: The Incestuous Relationship Between Government and Corporate America

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Walmart, Stand Your Ground, American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, Corporate America, AT&T, Pfizer, McDonald's, Voter ID Laws, Private Prisons, Citizens United, Politics News

Don't let this corporate exodus from ALEC fool you into thinking that these corporations have grown a conscience or that they have given up on influencing the political process.

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Pig Testicle Tacos, Courtesy Pfizer

Food & Think | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Pfizer Pig Testicle Tacos, Pfizer, Boar Taint, Pfizer Tacos, Pig Testicle Tacos, Food News

About a year ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug that gives pig farmers another way to control boar taint. Taint is a characteristic...

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HRT and Breast Cancer: A Brief Primer

Mache Seibel, MD | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Prempro, Phytoestrogens, Perimenopause, Menopause, Low Estrogen, Mache Seibel, Pfizer, Hrt, Video, Healthy Living Health News, Hormone Therapy Menopause, Hormone Therapy, Hormone Replacement, Women's Health, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Cancer Hormone Therapy, Healthy Living News

The recent Pfizer jury award is sure to scare many women. Whether or not to take estrogen and or progesterone is a very personal decision that needs to be individualized.

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CEO's Pay Increase By How Much?

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Pfizer Pay, Video, Drug Company Ceo Pay, Ian Read, Pfizer, Ian Read Pfizer, 2011 Pfizer Pay, Ian Read Pay, Business News

TRENTON, N.J. -- Pfizer Inc. nearly tripled CEO Ian Read's compensation in 2011, his first full year as top executive of the world's largest drugmaker...

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Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators Arrested During New York City Protests

Posted 02.29.2012

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By Gianna Palmer NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) - About 10 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested in New York City on Wednesday during prot...

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Strict Meth Laws Hurt Consumers, Have Little Effect on Meth Supply

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Meth, Video, Cold Medicine, Meth Labs, Meth Laws, Drug War, Pfizer, Henry Waxman, Dea, Pseudoephedrine, Drug Laws, Oregon, Politics News

Since 2006, the state of Oregon has had the strictest pseudoephedrine laws in the country. The popular decongestant, a common additive to over-the-cou...

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Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Packets Of Birth Control Pills

AP | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Norgestrel, Video, Birth Control Recall, Birthcontrol Recall, Birth Control Recall 2012, Pfizer Birth Control Recall, Ethinyl Estradiol, Pfizer, Lo/Ovral-28, Birth Control Pill Recall, Pfizer Recall, Birth Control, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills after uncovering a packaging error that could leave women with an...

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Big Pharma Is Innovating With Social Media -- Really

Rosina Samadani | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Ginger.io, West Wireless Health, Open Data, Apps, Crowdsourcing, Pfizer, Innovation, Sanofi-Aventis, Patients, iPhone Apps, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Pharmaceutical Companies, Social Media, Pharmaceutical Industry, Diabetes, True Ventures, Technology, Health Care, Business News

When big pharma leverages technology, open data and social media to develop innovative patient-facing apps, it's a win to the fourth power.

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Drugmakers Boost Prices Despite Political Risks

www.npr.org | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Politics, Npr, Drugmakers, Wholesale Prices, Prescription-Prices, Lipitor, Drug Companies, Prescription Drugs, Pfizer, Fifty News

One thing big drug companies generally aren't keen on is being the focus of a hot political debate. In the past, the quickest way to become Exhibit...

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In Role Reversal Huge Companies Lending To Ailing Europe Banks

Reuters | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, European Banks, Video, Johnson & Johnson, Euro Debt Crisis, Reuters, Pfizer European Banks, Pfizer, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Johnson & Johnson European Banks, Business News

By Douwe Miedema LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Blue-chip names like Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Peugeot are among firms bailing out...

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The 10 Best Stocks Of The Year

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Boeing, Kraft Foods, Fast Food, Verizon, Foreclosure Crisis, Dow Jones, Ibm, Stocks, Djia, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, McDonald's, First Solar, Chevron, Home Depot, Intel, Business News

2011 may have been the year of baroque chain-restaurant creations like Denny's Maple Bacon Sundae and Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse Burger. But in ...

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FDA Approves Prevnar Pneumonia Vaccine

Reuters | Anna Yukhananov | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Video, Pneumonia, Reuters, Prevnar, Pfizer, Pneumonia Vaccine, Vaccine, Fda, Vaccines, Healthy Living News

By Anna Yukhananov (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators approved the expansion of Pfizer Inc's blockbuster Prevnar vaccine for use in adul...

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3 Women Awarded $72 Million In Prempro Lawsuit

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Prempro, Video, Prempro Lawsuit News, Hormone Therapy and Pfizer, Pfizer, Prempro Lawsuit, Prempro Lawsuits, Prempro Link to Breast Cancer, Premprel, Prempro Award, Healthy Living News

A Philadelphia jury has awarded three women $72.6 million in compensatory damages over their use of a hormone-replacement drug called Prempro, and mor...

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Top 10 Most Popular Stocks In Congress

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: General Electric, Congress, Insider Trading, Stock Holdings, John Boehner, 60 Minutes, Nancy Pelosi, Pfizer, Bank of America, Trading Profits, Open Secrets, Business News

Two banks rank among the most popular stocks for members of Congress, in addition to other notable companies including Exxon Mobil and Microsoft. ...

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Drugmaker To Pay Huge Sum To Settle Bribery Probe: Report

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Video, Pfizer Settlement, Pfizer, Business News, Pfizer Bribery, Bribery, Business News

-- Pfizer Inc. will pay at least $60 million to settle allegations by the U.S. government that the drugmaker paid bribes to win overseas business, ac...

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The Best And Worst Ways Government Can Help Create Jobs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.20.2011

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Unemployment might be stuck at crisis levels, but a new government report suggests two commonly proposed Republican remedies would only have minimal e...

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Drug Giant Beats Profit, Sales Forecasts

Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Earnings, Pharmaceutical Industry, Quarterly Earnings, Video, Drug Companies, Pfizer Earnings 2011, Business News, Pfizer, Corporate Earnings, Business News

Pfizer Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by sales growth of its prescription drugs in emerging markets and its animal he...

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American Mengele

Alan Singer | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Pfizer, Wyeth, Glaxosmithkline, Josef Mengele, Tuskegee-Experiment, Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes, Barack Obama, World News

Unfortunately, medical testing on unwitting human subjects or people who consent under duress has not stopped.

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Patients Deserve to Know

ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Dollars for Docs, Medtronic, Health Care Reform, Drugs, Doctors, Patients, Pfizer, Healthy Living News

By Tracy Weber, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Your doctor gives you an expensive new drug to control your cholesterol, or recommends a certain br...

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Obama Moves NY Fundraiser With Rahm Due To Conflict Of Interest Concerns

AP | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Obama New York Fundraiser, Obama 2012 Campaign, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Obama Reelection, President Obama, Obama Rahm Emanuel Fundraiser, Pfizer, Pfizer New York, Obama 2012, Chicago News

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama's campaign has moved a New York fundraiser featuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Next Thursday's event origina...

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Still No Regulation to Keep Poisons Off Our Plate

Andrew Gunther | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Fda, Perdue Farms, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Big Ag, Chicken Feed, Pfizer, Antibiotics in Meat, Alpharma, Food News

Most of the rest of the world recognizes that adding a known poison to something you are going to eat is not a great idea. For example arsenic is prohibited from being added to any animal feed in Europe.

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