Pfizer Begins Settling Painkiller Cases

Pfizer has begun negotiating settlements with individual plaintiff’s firms over its Celebrex and Bextra painkillers, a New York lawyer said.

Zrodlo (oryginalny wpis) na http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/business/03pfizer.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss,By BLOOMBERG NEWS

Pfizer Warns of Inhaled Insulin Lung Cancer Risk

Pfizer and Nektar Therapeutics said clinical trials of the inhaled insulin Exubera found increased cases of lung cancer, leading Nektar to abandon the troubled product.

Zrodlo (oryginalny wpis) na http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-pfizer-nektar.html?ex=1365480000&en=0aa5f20acd076967&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss,By REUTERS

Word for Word | Viagra: Recalling the Madness

10 years after Viagra hit the market, revisiting some of The Times’s reporting on the drug’s first months.

Zrodlo (oryginalny wpis) na http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/weekinreview/30word.html?ex=1364529600&en=894edef936b3ec4d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss,By CHRIS CONWAY

Essay: Drug Pitchmen: Actor, Doctor or Pfizer’s Option

Surely the best message we can derive from the Dr. Robert Jarvik episode is that it may be time to rethink the advertising of prescription drugs

Zrodlo (oryginalny wpis) na http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/views/04essa.html?ex=1362373200&en=383a0f1e8a13f73b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss,By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.