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Pfizer opens £26m UK packaging facility
October 19, 2010Business 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 …
Alzheimer’s disease
October 16, 2010Research 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 …
Digital Pharma: Pharma iPhone app update
October 15, 2010Medical 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, 2010Research 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Researchers from Germany’s cost-effectiveness body IQWiG have unearthed a mountain of unpublished data from trials of Pfizer’s reboxetine that show …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, 2010Sales 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, 2010Sales 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, 2010Medical 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, 2010Research 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Outdated HRT website breaches Code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, 2010Medical 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A website which contained outdated information about the risk of using hormone replacement therapy has been found in breach of …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, 2010Sales 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, 2010Research 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, 2010Research 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, 2010Research 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 …
Regenerative medicine: small steps towards the great leap forward
August 16, 2010Research 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 …
Digital Pharma: Pfizer begins social media drive for online clinic
August 13, 2010Medical 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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