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Pfizer opens £26m UK packaging facility

October 19, 2010
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production Pfizer, packaging, recruitment

Pfizer officially opened a new biotechnology packaging facility in Hampshire, UK, on October 15, with a ceremony attended by UK …

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Alzheimer’s disease

October 16, 2010
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, Elan, J&J, JJ, Pfizer, lilly, pharmaceutical

In 1906 a psychiatrist working in a Frankfurt asylum became fascinated by the unnamed illness suffered by one of his …

Nycomed COPD iPhone app

Digital Pharma: Pharma iPhone app update

October 15, 2010
Medical Communications Astellas, Boehringer, Digital Pharma blog, GlaxoSmithKline, Lundbeck, Menarini, Nycomed, Pfizer, Servier, Teva, app, iphone

The ranks of pharma iPhone apps are increasing all the time and recent months have seen new additions from Teva, …

Researchers unearth Pfizer’s buried data

October 14, 2010
Research and Development Ben Goldacre, Pfizer, publication, reboxetine, trial data

Researchers from Germany’s cost-effectiveness body IQWiG have unearthed a mountain of unpublished data from trials of Pfizer’s reboxetine that show …

Pfizer acquires King Pharmaceuticals for $3.6bn

October 13, 2010
Sales and Marketing King Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, pain therapeutics

Pfizer is to purchase King Pharmaceuticals for $3.6 billion to significantly strengthen its pain portfolio and continue to diversify its …

Pfizer ponders sale of Capsugel

October 7, 2010
Sales and Marketing Capsugel, Pfizer

Pfizer is reviewing options for its drug delivery systems business Capsugel, including a possible sale of the unit. Pfizer has …

Digital Pharma: Pfizer socialises pain campaign

October 5, 2010
Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, Facebook, Flickr, Pfizer, Twitter, social media

Pfizer is campaigning for better care for people suffering from chronic pain and has turned to social media to galvanise …

Pfizer slims down pipeline

September 28, 2010
Research and Development Pfizer

Pfizer has reduced the number of drugs in its product pipeline as part of a broad refocusing of its R&D …

Outdated HRT website breaches Code

September 22, 2010
Medical Communications ABPI, Code of Practice, PMCPA, Pfizer, Wyeth

A website which contained outdated information about the risk of using hormone replacement therapy has been found in breach of …

Tesco to sell cut-price Viagra

September 21, 2010
Sales and Marketing Boots, Pfizer, Tesco, supermarket, viagra

Tesco has declared a price war in erectile dysfunction, announcing it will sell Viagra through its in-store pharmacies for less …

Pfizer drops brain cancer vaccine

September 7, 2010
Research and Development Celldex Therapeutics, Pfizer, cancer vaccine

Pfizer has dropped its experimental brain cancer vaccine rindopepimut, handing back worldwide rights to Celldex Therapeutics from November. Rindopepimut targets …

Pfizer acquires ‘protein misfolding’ specialist

September 2, 2010
Research and Development FoldRx, Pfizer, cystic fibrosis

Pfizer has bolstered its presence in rare and orphan diseases with the acquisition of FoldRx, a US drug discovery firm …

Sutent disappoints in lung cancer

August 24, 2010
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NSCLC, Pfizer, Sutent, Tarceva

Pfizer’s Sutent has failed to improve overall survival in lung cancer patients when combined with Roche’s Tarceva. Pfizer’s SUN 1087 …

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Regenerative medicine: small steps towards the great leap forward

August 16, 2010
Research and Development GSK, Pfizer, Stem cells, regenerative medicine

Susan Aldridge reports on what some of the leading pharma companies are doing in the regenerative medicine and stem cells …

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Digital Pharma: Pfizer begins social media drive for online clinic

August 13, 2010
Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, ManMOT, Pfizer, Twitter, digital patients

Pfizer UK has turned to social media to help raise awareness of its online Man MOT male health clinic and …

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