India: Wal-Mart's Drug Connection
Most Americans have no idea that the drugs they are buying at Wal-Mart are produced in India, made by companies that are copying another company's products.
Most Americans have no idea that the drugs they are buying at Wal-Mart are produced in India, made by companies that are copying another company's products.
Bloomberg | Susan Decker and Shannon Pettypiece | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
Pfizer Inc. and India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. agreed to keep copies of the cholesterol pill Lipitor off the U.S. market an extra 20 months, a move...
Reuters | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Pfizer may bid for Ranbaxy Laboratories, countering a $4.6 billion (2.4 billion pound) offer by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo for the Indi...
Bloomberg | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business
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Robert Weissman | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business
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Los Angeles Times | Daniel Costello | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
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Wall Street Journal | Scott Hensley | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
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Jamie Reidy | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living
Oh, Viagra, I'd love to wish you another successful decade, but that's probably not realistic. In the next few years, your patent will expire, after which you'll be known by your given name, Sildenafil Citrate.
New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
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Wall Street Journal | HEATHER WON TESORIERO | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business
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BusinessWeek | John Carey | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business
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Bloomberg | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business
Pfizer said it would fight a Nigerian court order that could jail three employees who had failed to appear at a trial over whether the company had imp...
24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business
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Wall Street Journal | David Armstrong | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business
A former Pfizer Inc. official in a lawsuit accused the company of illegally boosting sales of its top-selling drug Lipitor through an elaborate campai...
New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 11.16.2007 | Business
Pfizer, the world's biggest drug company, flopped miserably with a seemingly can't-miss idea. But Alfred E. Mann is so certain he can succeed that he ...
Doug Bremner | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
I think that it is criminal that someone like Mitt Romney can sit there and say that we have universal healthcare because if you break your arm they are going to take you to the ER even if you don't have insurance.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living
While psychiatry may want to blame its current unpopularity on the press, the corporate media is generally reluctant to challenge a powerful institution until it is already out of favor.
Wall Street Journal | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 10.19.2007 | Business
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Al Norman | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business