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Pfizer News

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12 hrs ago | Ann Arbor News

Layoffs turn into hires at Perrigo

Perrigo Co. CEO Joe Papa said 10 percent of his pharmaceutical company's hires have come from layoffs, including some from drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Perrigo, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Fri Jul 18, 2008

CareerJournal

Altered Bylaws Aim to Dig Out Data

Companies Featured in This Article: Pfizer, Monsanto, Sara Lee, CSX, Mylan Laboratories, Cohen & Steers Many U.S. companies are quietly changing their bylaws to pry more information out of activist investors ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Monsanto, Chemicals, Food, Sara Lee, Apparel, Opinion

Thu Jul 17, 2008

Fool.com

Genentech Needs More Profit Power

Genentech reported yesterday that its first-quarter overall revenue rose nearly 8%. Its top drugs, including cancer treatments Avastin and Rituxan, posted blowout double-digit sales growth.

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Related Topix: Biotech, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Healthcare Industry

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer To Pay Fine for PharmaMACT Violations

Pfizer has agreed to pay $975,000 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its former manufacturing plant in Groton, Connecticut, according to a release by the US Department of ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Groton, CT, Environmental Law, Law, US News

Tue Jul 15, 2008

The Biotech Stock Blog

Pfizer, Merck and Lilly Partner to Get "Enlightened"

Big pharma makes strange bedfellows. Pfizer , Merck , and Eli Lilly announced yesterday morning that they've launched a joint venture of sorts called, "Enlight Biosciences" . They're doing it with the help of ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Eli Lilly, Healthcare Industry, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Merck

Mon Jul 14, 2008

ClickOnDetroit.com

Pfizer Cutting 275 Jobs At Mich. Plant

Pfizer Inc. is cutting 275 jobs at its biggest manufacturing plant, in Michigan, in its latest restructuring move.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Kalamazoo Metro, Kalamazoo College

Sun Jul 13, 2008

Bizjournals

Malvern biotech company Melior signs 2nd deal with Pfizer

Melior Discovery Inc. signed its second deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Diabetes, Health, Exton, PA

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

Pfizer to support continuing medical education through medical societies, teaching hospitals

Pfizer Inc. has announced that it will support continuing medical education courses at academic medical centers, teaching hospitals and in programs sponsored by associations, medical societies and community ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Sat Jul 12, 2008

Rehab Management

Pfizer says its epilepsy drugs need no warning

Pfizer Inc said its epilepsy drugs do not increase the risk of suicidal behavior and should be exempt from tougher warnings being sought for similar medications.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Epilepsy, Health, Food and Drug Administration

Fri Jul 11, 2008

BioResearch Online

Enlight Biosciences Launched In Collaboration With Merck & Co.,...

Enlight Biosciences, a new Boston-based company conceived by PureTech Ventures together with several major pharmaceutical companies, announced that it will direct up to $39M to advance breakthrough technologies ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Eli Lilly, Merck

MediLexicon

Mesoblast Limited Announce Pre-Clinical Trials Show Allogenic Stem...

Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited , announced highly significant preclinical trial results of the adult stem cell technology platform for the treatment of eye diseases associated with ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Food and Drug Administration, Health

Reuters

Advisers reject strong epilepsy drug warning

Anti-seizure drugs used to treat epilepsy carry an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior but not enough to warrant a black box warning, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Epilepsy, Medicine, Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Thu Jul 10, 2008

The Motley Fool

The Death of the Approvable Letter

Yesterday, the FDA announced that on Aug. 11 it will finally put the "approvable letter" out of its misery.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Indianapolis Star

Lilly, Merck and Pfizer form research venture

Indianapolis drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. is joining forces with two industry rivals to save money and get more medicines to market faster.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Eli Lilly

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Washington Times

Principi prodded VA on Chantix

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi contacted colleagues at his old agency as the chief lobbyist for drug maker Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health, Life, Veteran Affairs, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Fool.com

Not Teva's Forte

But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Teva announced Monday that a double dose of its multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone didn't work any better than the currently available dose.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Multiple Sclerosis, Health, Biotech, Biogen Idec, Healthcare Industry, Elan Corporation Plc, Isis Pharmaceuticals

Mon Jul 07, 2008

MarketWatch

InBev, Busch uncle, aim to oust Anheuser-Busch board

Belgian brewer InBev on Monday announced its latest move in its quest to buy Anheuser-Busch, putting up an alternative slate of directors that includes a descendant of the founding Busch family.

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Related Topix: Guidant, Startups, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Biotech, Beverages, Anheuser Busch Companies

Motley Fool

A Cubist Masterstroke

Once a pharma gets its first drug approved, one of the hardest things to do is to capture the spoils.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Biotech, Medicine, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, AstraZeneca Group, Johnson and Johnson, Sales

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Chicago Tribune

IDEM probes release of PCBs from wastewater lagoon

State and federal environmental officials are trying to determine if the release of toxins from a wastewater lagoon at a Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Pfizer gets FDA approval for new one-dose antibiotic for dogs and cats

The federal government has approved a new Pfizer Inc. antibiotic for dogs and cats that next year will be manufactured in Portage.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

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