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Drug Trials

A Defense of the Private Sector

Nathan Risinger | Posted 01.08.2013 | World
Read More: Oxfam, Bioethics, Drug Trials, Private Sector, Ethics, Pharma, World News
Nathan Risinger

Simply to dismiss the private sector out of hand would be a mistake for the global public health field. Private companies play a pivotal role in public health issues. It is only through a marriage of the public and the private that we can see effective change in health issues across the globe.

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Pfizer Withdraws Blood Pressure Drug Over Fatal Liver Damage

AP | MARLEY SEAMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Pfizer, Pfizer Recalls, Drug Trials, Fda, Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Drugs, Pfizer Thelin, Thelin Recalled, Business News

NEW YORK — Pfizer Inc. said Friday it is pulling its blood pressure drug Thelin off the market and stopping all clinical trials because the drug...

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The Search For the Right Blood Pressure Medicine

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: High Blood Pressure, Causes of High Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Treatment, Medical Bills, Bills, Treatment, Drug Trials, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better pe...

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Pfizer Loses $2.8 Bil In Costly Insulin Flop

Wall Street Journal | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Failed Drugs, Jeffrey Kindler, Drug Trials, Costly Mistakes, Exubera, Pfizer, Business News

Pfizer Inc.'s decision to shelve a novel insulin inhaler and take a $2.8 billion pretax hit on the product -- one of the drug industry's costliest fai...

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