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4 hrs ago | The Day

Bringing Pfizer to New London came at a heavy cost to taxpayers

It took a lot more than the promise of spiffed-up surroundings and the desire of a top executive to help a struggling city to bring Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, New London, CT

13 hrs ago | Drugs.com

Antitrust Lawyer Files Suit to Stop Pfizer Merger

From Day, The Nov. 20--A prominent San Francisco antitrust attorney said Thursday he has filed a request in federal court for a temporary restraining order against Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, New London Metro, New London, CT

Fri Nov 20, 2009

LoHud

Prescription for opportunity

Considering the cold shoulder New York gives to business, even in this economic climate, locals should, and did, cheer Pfizer Inc.'s announcement that the Pearl River campus will be one of just five main sites in its global research and development network.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Pearl River, NY, Rockland County, NY, Opinion

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Pfizer gets FDA approval for intravenous Revatio

Drug developer Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved an intravenous version of its high blood pressure drug Revatio.

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

Bioscience Technology

Pfizer enters tropical disease drug partnership

Scientists from a not-for-profit foundation will test 150,000 Pfizer Inc. drug candidates as part of a search for treatments for three tropical diseases that are spread by insects.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Seattle Times

Froma Harrop / Syndicated columnist | Courting corporations: One city's cautionary tale

Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a street grid emptied of nearly all its buildings.

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Related Topix: New London Metro, New London, CT, US News, US Supreme Court, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Opinion

BioSpace

FDA Advisory Committee Finds Data Support the Safety and...

Pfizer Inc announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 10 to 1 that the data presented support the safety and effectiveness of its 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate candidate vaccine, Prevnar 13TM , for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease in infants and ...

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

ABC News

Roche Announces Late-Stage Trial for Heart Drug

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Wednesday it would conduct a new late-stage trial to evaluate the effect of one of its drug candidates in combating a thickening of the arteries in patients.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

MarketWatch

Pfizer reportedly to sell generic drugs in Japan

Pfizer Inc. plans to release generic drugs in Japan as early as 2011, expecting demand to increase as industrialized nations intensify efforts to control drug prices, according to a report Thursday.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Novartis

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Gaston Gazette

The landmark Kelo case gets an odd postscript

One is not sure whether tragedy or justice has come to New London, Conn. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.

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Related Topix: New London Metro, New London, CT, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, US News, US Supreme Court

ABC News

FDA Panel Backs Pfizer's Enhanced Vaccine for Kids

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a sign at Pfizer world headquarters in New York is shown.... FILE - In this Jan.

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

Pharmaceutical Processing

Pfizer Submits New Pediatric Data For Lipitor To The European Medicines Agency

Pfizer Inc announced it has submitted pediatric data for LipitorA to the European Medicines Agency .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Lipitor, Atorvastatin (generic), Medication, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Cholesterol, Health

Earth Times

Pfizer and DNDi Advancing International Research Efforts In The Fight ...

NEW YORK & GENEVA - Pfizer Inc and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative have signed an agreement that is designed to facilitate advancements in the battle against human African trypanosomiasis , visceral leishmaniasis and Chagas disease, which afflict vulnerable populations in the developing world.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Geneva, NY, Australia, World News, Malaria, Health

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Benefit Of Merck Heart Drug Remains After Stopping

High doses of an experimental heart medicine being developed by Merck & Co MRK.N continued to show beneficial effects on both good HDL and bad LDL cholesterol levels eight weeks after patients stopped taking the drug, in a mid-stage study.

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

The Motley Fool

Questioning Pfizer's Integrity

David Gardner called it. He's up 1,334%! See what David's recommending that you buy NEXT.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration

The Day

NL council wants to be 'part of the discussions' on Pfizer site

Now that Pfizer Inc. has said it is moving its world headquarters out of New London, the city has one request - it wants a seat at the table.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, New London, CT

Mon Nov 16, 2009

NewsChannel 8

FDA reviews update to Pfizer vaccine fo

Washington - Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Banking, Financial Services, Washington Federal

KATU - News - Business

Pfizer closes research center built with land seizures

After drug giant Pfizer Inc. announced that it was opening a new research center here, city officials aggressively moved to acquire surrounding land for an economic development project - triggering an epic fight over eminent domain that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and ended with residents being forced from their homes.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, US News, US Supreme Court

Drugs.com

Boehringer Ingelheim Developing 'Female Viagra'

German firm developing 'female Viagra' [The Day, New London, Conn.] From Day, The Nov.

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Related Topix: Viagra, Sildenafil (generic), Medicine, Medication, New London Metro, New London, CT, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Erectile Dysfunction, Health

American Chronicle

News and FDA Updates for Monsanto

A complete list of all headlines and biomedical stock developments can be found on BioMedReports.Com On 11/09/09, Monsanto Company and Pfizer Inc announced they have entered into an agreement for Monsanto to acquire Pfizer's Chesterfield Village Research Center located in Chesterfield, Mo.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Monsanto, Chemicals, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Chesterfield, MO, Financial Markets, Opinion

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