Drug Makers

Drug Giant's Profit Plunges After Introduction of Generic Lipitor

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 04.01.2012

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Pfizer Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit fell by half because it sold less Lipitor, the cholesterol fighter that's the biggest drug ever to go off patent, ...

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Drugmaker To Pay $475 Million To Settle Charges From Tainted Antidepressants

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Charges, Paxil, Glaxosmithkline, Civil Penalties, Allegations, Criminal Charges, Drug Makers, Business News

BOSTON — British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold ...

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Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Health Care Bill, Merck, Public Option, Singulair, Senate Health Care Bill, Prescription Drugs, Reform, Pharmaceutical Makers, Drug Makers, Costs, House, Drug Prices, Drugmakers, Inflation, Consumer Price Index, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Medicare, Health Care, Wall Street, Prices, House Health Care Bill, Wholesale Drug Prices, Business News

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

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Sam Stein

Obama Deal With Drugmakers Sparks Debate Over Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Drug Policy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Robert Gibbs, Obama Meetings, Barack Obama, Obama Health Care Titans, Obama Health Care, Drug Policy, Obama Reform, Pharma, Drug Makers, Politics News

The White House backtracked slightly on Thursday from reports that it had made a hugely significant and binding backroom deal with the pharmaceutical ...

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Lawmakers Seek To Curb Drug Commercials

New York Times | Natasha Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Drug Ads, Drugs, Drug Commercials, Drug Makers, Business News

Now a handful of legislators are just saying no to TV commercials for prescription drugs. The politicians are taking aim at the 60-second spots that h...

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Online Age Quiz Useful For Drug Makers

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans yearn to be young. So it is little wonder that RealAge, which promises to help shave years off your age, has become one of the most popular ...

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Pharmaceutical Mergers Considered

New York Times | NATASHA SINGER and DUFF WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Company Mergers, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drugs, Drug-Makers, Drug Mergers, Mergers, Drug Makers, Business News

Sports fans have fantasy baseball. Drug industry analysts have fantasy mergers. In the pharmaceutical version of the game, analysts use balance she...

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Drug Maker Wyeth Said To Have Paid Ghostwriters For Favorable Journal Articles

NY Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Journals, Drug Manufacturing, Prempro, Wyeth, Ghostwriters, Healthcare, Drug Makers, Business News

Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its female hormone replacement therapy Prempro, ...

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