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Last year pharmaceutical companies spent more than $4 billion urging patients like you to 'ask your doctor' about their drugs. Comment?
U.S. regulators have refused to accept drugmaker Merck & Co.'s application for a new, combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer's Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug. Comment?
Google, Yahoo Call for Expanded Online Drug Ads
Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging U.S. government regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements. Comment?
Online drug ads under review in U.S.
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Internet companies are considering different types of online ads that would include links to side-effect information. Comment?
NicOx SA Announces NCX 6560 Meets Primary and Secondary Objectives in First-in- Man Study
NicOx S.A. today announced that a phase 1b, first-in-man study for NCX 6560, versus placebo and Lipitor? , has met its primary and secondary objectives. Comment?
NicOx announces NCX 6560 meets primary and secondary objectives in first-in- man study
"These positive first-in-man results for NCX 6560 are an important step forward and show a very good safety and tolerability profile, even at high doses," declared James Shepherd MD, Professor of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Comment?
Research helps you cut your drug bills
Last year pharmaceutical companies spent more than $4 billion urging patients like you to "ask your doctor" about their drugs. Comment?
Google and Yahoo Claim FDA Warning Resulted In Fuzzier Pharma Ads
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Executives from Google and Yahoo told the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday that its crackdown on sponsored links has, in some ways, resulted in search ads that are worse for both consumers and marketers. Comment?
Pfizer Drug Studies Misleading - Again
Drug giants Pfizer Inc. who make Viagra and Zoloft, are misleading consumers once again according to a report that discovered when a company-funded studya s primary finding wasna t favorable, that result was buried and something else positive was highlighted, without disclosing the non-favorable findings. Comment?
Those with Heartburn Paying Too Much Green for Nexium 'Purple Pill' Says Consumer Reports
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Report finds no one drug works better than another and all are relatively safe but some far more costly Nov. Comment?
Pfizer says absorbing Wyeth at top speed
Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Kindler said the drugmaker is integrating its Wyeth purchase far faster than previous big acquisitions, and it will no longer be overly dependent on one or two blockbuster medications. Comment?
Statins: Lowering Your Cholesterol
Statins are cholesterol-lowering medications that are highly effective and generally safe. Comment?
Dr. Reddy's seeks to market Lipitor generic
MUMBAI,A India An Indian generic drug maker has filed for approval of its version of a blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug. Comment?
Switch to generic drugs a blow to patients
Thousands of state and county workers and their families will soon experience a fatal blow to their prescription drug plans. Comment?
Last year pharmaceutical companies spent more than $4 billion urging patients like you to "ask your doctor" about their drugs. Comment?
Regulators won't accept Merck's application for a new combination cholesterol pill.
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U.S. regulators won't accept drugmaker Merck's application for a new combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer's Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug. Comment?
Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Comment?
Drug firm to cut nearly 100 jobs
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Drug maker Pfizer will cut nearly 100 jobs when it closes its research and development sites in Berkshire and Hampshire next year. Comment?
Health Plans Drop RICO Suit Over Pfizer's Lipitor Drug
In September, when Manhattan federal district court Judge Kimba Wood dismissed a purported class action against Pfizer in which union health and welfare funds claimed misrepresentations involving the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, she gave the plaintiffs an opportunity to re-plead most of the allegations, including their fraud and RICO claims. Comment?
Pfizer cutting 600 jobs in area
In recent months, some of the 1,000 scientists and employees at Pfizer's Chesterfield Village Research Center took to examining the tiniest details to divine the future of their jobs. Comment?