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India: Wal-Mart's Drug Connection

Al Norman | Posted 06.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Medicare D, Ranbaxy, Rx Depot, Wal-Mart, Who, Dr. Reddy's, Canadian Drugs, FDA Warning, Astrazeneca, Bain & Company, Pfizer, Pharmexcil, Rfids, Business News
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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.

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Pfizer Delays Generic Lipitor Release Until 2011

Bloomberg | Susan Decker and Shannon Pettypiece | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Ranbaxy Lipitor, Pfizer Ranbaxy, Ranbaxy, Lipitor Generic, Lipitor Generic Delayed, Pfizer Generic, Pfizer, Cheap Lipitor, Pfizer Lipitor, Generic Lipitor, Business News

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...

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Pfizer May Get Into Bidding For Ranbaxy, Generic Drug Maker

Reuters | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Fizer, Ranbaxy, Generic Medication, Pfizer Generic, Fizer Generic, Generic Drugs, Pfizer, Business News

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...

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Illegal Viagra Leads 24% Jump In Counterfeit Medicine Seizures

Bloomberg | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Pfizer, Viagra, Business News

Counterfeit medicines are on the rise worldwide, as criminals capitalize on the growing use of the Internet by consumers searching for inexpensive dru...

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Billionaire's Fortune At Risk After Evidence Links Inhaler To Cancer

Los Angeles Times | Daniel Costello | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Lung Cancer, Billionaires, MannKing Corp, Inhaled Insulin, Diabetes, Alfred Mann, Mannkind, Pfizer, Inhaled Insulin Lung Cancer, Diebetics, Business News

With the zeal of a young entrepreneur, 82-year-old Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist Alfred Mann has bet nearly half of his estimated $2.2-bi...

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Pfizer Skin Cancer Drug Fails Clinical Test

Wall Street Journal | Scott Hensley | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Metastatic Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer, Big Pharma, Cancer Patients, Pfizer, Business News

Pfizer's search for new drugs took another hit when the company halted a late-stage trial of an experimental medicine to treat metastatic skin cancer....

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Pfizer Pulls Misleading Lipitor Ads

New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Fake Lipitor Ads, Drug Ads, Pharmaceutical Companies, Lipitor Ads, Lipitor, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pfizer Ads, Robert Jarvik, Pfizer Drugs, Fake Lipitor Doctor, Cholesterol Drugs, Big Pharma, Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Business News

Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pi...

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Big Pharma Raised Top Drug Prices By 7.8 Percent In 2007

Wall Street Journal | HEATHER WON TESORIERO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Lipitor, Pharmaceutical Companies, Glaxosmithkline, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Ambien, Drug Prices, Pfizer, Adderall, Sanofi-Aventis, Wellbutrin, Shire, Business News

The pharmaceutical industry has been a frequent target in the current presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped it from continuing to aggressivel...

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Are Cholesterol Drugs Worth The Money?

BusinessWeek | John Carey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Statin, Cholestoral Drugs, Lipitor, High Cholesterol, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, Pfizer, Business News

Martin Winn's cholesterol level was inching up. Cycling up hills, he felt chest pain that might have been angina. So he and his doctor decided he shou...

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Pfizer Fights To Keep Employees Out Of Nigerian Jail

Bloomberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Nigeria Pfizer, Meningitis, Nigerian Court Order, Nigeria, Pfizer, Nigerian Children, Kano, Business News

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...

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Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: General Electric, Citigroup, JP Morgan, AT&T, Ge, General Motors, Gm, Verizon, Unit Investment Trusts, Dogs of the Dow, Altria, Home Depot, Pfizer, Dupont, Business News

The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

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Ex-Pfizer Official Comes Clean, Sues Company For Misleading Docs About Lipitor

Wall Street Journal | David Armstrong | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Pfizer, Jesse Polansky, Business News

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...

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Inhaled-Insulin Proponent Hope To Succeed Where Pfizer Failed

New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: MannKind Corporation, MannKind, Pfizer Insulin, Inhaled Insulin, Pfizer, Alfred Mann, Business News

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 ...

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Pfizer Loses $2.8 Bil In Costly Insulin Flop

Wall Street Journal | AVERY JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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