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Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Tentatively Approved By FTC

AFP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Europe, Divestiture, Federal Trade Commission, Anticompetitive, Drug, Eu, Wyeth, Divest, ftc.gov, Pharmaceutical, Merger, Ftc, Pfizer, Conditions, Business News

NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...

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This Week In Cheating: Drugs

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Trial, Fosamax, Pants!, Merck, Drug Industry, Class Action, Pfizer, Addiction, Trap, Scandal, Awesome, Pharmaceutical Industry, Settlement, Satire, Vioxx, Wyeth, Rachel Maddow, Marketing, Neurontin, Monty Python, Comedy News

So, let me get this straight: Pfizer is the drug company who'll lie to you, but Merck's the one that'll kill you?

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Ghostwritten Medical Articles Cast Doubt on Reliability of Drugs

Lennard Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Premarin, Depression, Estrogen Replacement Therapies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ghostwriting, Drug Companies, Prozac, Ghostwriters, Wyeth, Experts, Medicine, Medical-Journals, Business News

We need to be extremely careful when we read that "experts have said" or that "experiments have shown" -- particularly when we are looking at difficult-to-treat affective disorders.

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Wyeth Loses Supreme Court Case, Opens Consumer Suits Against Pharma

Reuters | Lisa Richwine and James Vicini | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Wyeth Supreme Court, Drug Companies, Supreme Court Drug Industry, Wyeth, Supreme Court Wyeth, Pharmaceuticals, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liabl...

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Stiffed: Why Are Bailed-Out Banks Helping Pfizer Buy Wyeth?

Paul Loeb | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout Bandits, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Wyeth, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, Viagra, Barclays, Mergers, Business News

Pfizer, Viagra's daddy, is using money from taxpayer-bailed-out banks to help buy major pharmaceutical competitor Wyeth. That won't help taxpayers or consumers. Nor is it designed to.

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Pfizer To Buy Wyeth For $68 Billion

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Pfizer, Wyeth, Pfizer Wyeth, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Business News

TRENTON, N.J. — Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said Monday it is buying rival Wyeth for $68 billion in a deal that will quickly boo...

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Pfizer, Wyeth In Talks For $60B Merger

Wall Street Journal | MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG and JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pfizer Wyeth, Pfizer, Wyeth, Business News

Pfizer Inc. is in talks to acquire rival drug maker Wyeth in a deal that could be valued at more than $60 billion, said people familiar with the matte...

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Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World" Artist, Dies At 91

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 02.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Andrew Wyeth, Obituary, Art, Painting, Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth Christina S World, Brandywine River Museum, Helga Testorf, Helga Paintings, Wyeth, Home News

PHILADELPHIA — Although some critics deride his art as drab and kitschy, Andrew Wyeth's melancholy paintings were praised by others as profound ...

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

NY Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

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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The Supreme Court, the Election and the Sad Story of Diana Levine

Doug Kendall | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wyeth, Supreme Court, Preemption, Bush Administration, Diane Levine, Food and Drug Administration, Politics News

Monday the Supreme Court will hear argument in Wyeth v. Levine -- Diane Levine is a Vermont musician who went to the hospital for treatment of a migraine headache and left with her arm amputated and career in ruins.

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Bush Administration Made Complete Immunity for Negligent Corporations a Top Priority

Les Weisbrod | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

In the past three years federal agencies, have engaged in a campaign to hand corporations a 'get-out-of jail-free' pass when their products have harmed consumers.

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Wyeth May Slash Up To 5,000 Jobs

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Doug Petkus, Wyeth Job Cuts, Protonix, Job Cuts, Layoofs, Drugmaker, Wyeth, Business News

Wyeth on Friday said it is considering cost cuts that could eliminate 10 percent of its work force over a three-year period, although the U.S. drugmak...

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Wyeth Sues Teva Over Heartburn Drug

AP | DAMIAN J. TROISE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Protonix, Heartburn Medicine, Heartburn Medication, Generic Drugs, Teva, Wyeth, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Business News

A patent dispute over the heartburn drug Protonix escalated Monday when Wyeth said it will sue to recover lost profits from sales of Teva Pharmaceutic...

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Johnson & Johnson Recalls Kids' Cough Syrup

Reuters | Debra Sherman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Novartis, Prestige Brands Holdings, Cough Syrup Recall, Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Business News

Johnson & Johnson Wyeth and other makers of infants' nonprescription cough and cold products are recalling certain medicines in the United States beca...

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