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Heart risk big worry for FDA: official - Reuters
November 18, 2008, 3:25 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rise of serious heart risks in drugs that treat chronic conditions has become one of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top worries and is changing how the agency weighs new medicines, a top FDA official said on Tuesday ...

Reuters Summit-Heart risk big worry for US FDA-official - Forbes
November 18, 2008, 3:40 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rise of serious heart risks in drugs that treat chronic conditions has become one of the Food and Drug Administration's top worries and is changing how the agency weighs new medicines, a top FDA official said Tuesday. The ...

Brains Over Guts - Forbes
October 21, 2008, 5:56 pm

Outside a conference room that used to be Peter Hecht?s office sits a makeshift shrine to Warren Buffett: a dozen copies of the Berkshire Hathaway annual report, there for the taking, and a stack of books about the revered investor. Hecht has owned ...

Pfizer, Schering-Plough Beat Modest Expectations - CBS News
October 20, 2008, 5:57 pm

(AP) Pfizer Inc. and Schering-Plough Corp. both managed to beat analysts' minimal expectations Tuesday, largely because of revenue buoyed by favorable currency exchange rates and growing sales overseas making up for slumping sales at home. The two ...

Pfizer 3Q profit triples vs. weak year-ago results - FOX News
October 20, 2008, 5:57 pm

TRENTON, N.J. ? Pfizer Inc.'s profit tripled in the third quarter, mainly because a huge charge depressed last year's results, despite flat sales. Its earnings narrowly beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. But the company behind impotence ...

Pfizer Finds Redemption - Forbes
October 16, 2008, 5:55 pm

Pfizer is settling its legal tab in an effort to start 2009 with a clean slate. The pharmaceuticals company said Friday that it has reached agreements to pay about 92.0% of claims against it involving pain medications Bextra and Celebrex. The total ...

Today's Globe: medical costs, food allergies, drug reactions, UK stem ... - Boston Globe
October 23, 2008, 3:16 pm

Although far more Massachusetts residents have health insurance coverage than residents nationwide, a significant portion of Bay Staters are still struggling to pay for needed healthcare, a new survey shows. Food allergies in American children seem ...

Pfizer 3Q profit triples - Chicago Sun-Times
October 20, 2008, 5:57 pm

TRENTON, N.J. -- Pfizer Inc.'s profit tripled in the third quarter, mainly because a huge charge depressed last year's results, despite flat sales. Its earnings narrowly beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. But the company behind impotence ...

2nd UPDATE: Pfizer Agrees To Pay $894 Million To Settle Litigation - CNN Money
October 16, 2008, 5:55 pm

Pfizer Inc. (PFE) agreed to pay $894 million to settle the bulk of litigation and state government probes surrounding its pain drugs Celebrex and Bextra, which were linked to increased risk for heart attacks and strokes. The New York drug maker said ...

Pfizer Reaches $894M Painkiller Settlement - CBS News
October 16, 2008, 5:55 pm

AP) Drug giant Pfizer Inc. has reached an $894 million deal to end most of the lawsuits over its two prescription pain relievers, the popular Celebrex and a similar drug, Bextra, no longer on the market. The world's biggest drugmaker said Friday it ...

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