Pfizer - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical company, the largest in world based on annual sales. In 2009, annual sales were worth $45,448m. Pfizer spend £550m on R&D in the UK alone, and have colleagues in 180 countries.
Lipitor, one of its products is the top drug in the world for annual sales. 2.7 million Britons take Pfizer medications each day, for a very diverse range of illnesses. Pfizer also deals with veterinary medicines for livestock and companion animals.
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DURECT Announces Update on Remoxy®
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that Pfizer has provided an update on Remoxy as part of their Form 10-Q filing. Pfizer's disclos...
Pain Therapeutics Files Form 8-K Regarding Correspondence From Pfizer, Inc.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pain Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:PTIE) announced today that yesterday it received correspondence from Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE:PFE). This correspondence is...
Pfizer Invites Public to View and Listen to Webcast of Pfizer Presentation at Healthcare Conference
Pfizer Inc. invites investors and the general public to view and listen to a webcast of a presentation by Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research and Development, at the Mor...
Edison - Athersys - Investment summary: Gathering momentum
Athersys’ stock has gained 25% in the last month to trade at an 18-month high. We believe positive biotech sentiment in general, and burgeoning interest in stem cells and regenerative medicine...
Wendy R. Fleishman, a personal injury lawyer at the national plaintiffs' law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and co-counsel Jack Meyerson and Debora O'Nei...
To meet the needs of consumers who are increasingly going online to purchase prescription medications, Pfizer today launched Viagra® home delivery, a new prescription-fulfillment...
Protein Sciences Prepared to Combat the Latest Potential Pandemic Flu Virus
MERIDEN, Conn., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Protein Sciences announced today that it had completed development of the vector required to manufacture a vaccine to protect against the new and deadl...
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada (“Merck”), and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that they have entered into a worldw...
Pfizer Presents Phase 3 Safety And Immunogenicity Data On Prevenar 13 In Adults Aged 18 To 49 Years
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) presented today the results from a Phase 3 study investigating immunogenicity, tolerability and safety of Prevenar 13* (Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugat...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a negative opinion for XE...
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Clinical Trials
To compare the effects of exemestane for 5 years versus tamoxifen and exemestane given sequentially over 5 years in the adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with early breast cancer....
Effect of Parecoxib on Post-Craniotomy Pain
Aim of this trial: To investigate whether post-craniotomy analgesia with (i) intravenous (IV) parecoxib plus intravenous paracetamol is superior to (ii) intravenous paracetamol alone....
Pfizer/IVGTT/Ziprasidone/Olanzapine
Abnormalities in peripheral glucose regulation and type 2 diabetes can occur more commonly in individuals with schizophrenia than in healthy subjects or in other psychiatric conditions. A...
A new immunosuppressive drug, based on the inhibition of an important enzyme in the immune system called JAK3, is being developed by Pfizer to prevent transplant rejection. In this researc...
Pregabalin in the Treatment of Essential Tremor
Pregabalin is approved for the treatment of nerve pain as well as an additional therapy in the treatment of seizures. In December 2004, Pfizer gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) app...
Study of a JAK3 Inhibitor for the Prevention of Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplant Patients
A new immunosuppressive drug, based on the inhibition of an important enzyme in the immune system called JAK3, is being developed by Pfizer to prevent transplant rejection. In this researc...
The Pfizer developed Heat Wash-Out (HWO) system is a software controlled electromechanical system designed to measure vaginal wall blood flow. A small vaginal probe is attached to a contro...
Effect Of Menstrual Cycle On Vaginal Blood Flow In Pre-Menopausal Healthy Women.
The Pfizer developed Heat Wash-Out (HWO) system is a software controlled electromechanical system designed to measure vaginal wall blood flow. A small vaginal probe is attached to a contro...
Intra-abdominal infections are often polymicrobial, and include aerobic as well as anaerobic bacteria. Antibiotics used in intra-abdominal infections should aim to cover organisms such as...
The purpose of this study is to see if therapy with the drug pregabalin relieves pain during shingles compared with placebo. A placebo is an inactive substance. Pregabalin is a drug marke...
PubMed Articles
Phenolphthalein induces centrosome amplification and tubulin depolymerization in vitro.
Aneuploidy is a major cause of human reproductive failure and plays a large role in cancer. Phenolphthalein (PHT) induces tumors in rodents but its primary mechanism does not seem to be DNA damage. In...
To investigate spontaneous reporting relationships between representative antifungal agents and congestive heart failure (CHF)-related adverse events (AE) we performed multiple disproportionality anal...
Clinical Pharmacology of Axitinib.
Axitinib is a potent and selective second-generation inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors 1, 2, and 3 that is approved in the US and several other countries for treatment of patie...
EGFR: Tale of the C-terminal tail.
The carboxy terminal tail of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a critical role in the regulation of the enzyme activity of the kinase. There is a good structural model for the mechanism by...
Testing each hypothesis marginally at alpha while still controlling FWER: how and when.
This paper proposes a multiple testing procedure that allows one to reject each individual hypothesis at a prespecified level α, while still controlling the familywise error rate at α in the strong...
CD133 has been associated with cell properties such as self renewal, migration and vasculogenic mimicry, potentially involved in generation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs). We characterized CD133 ex...
A significant consequence of scaling up production of high titer monoclonal antibody (mAb) processes in existing facilities is the generation of in-process pools that exceed the capacity of storage ve...
The immunogenicity profile of a biotherapeutic is determined by a multitude of product and patient-related risk factors that can influence the observed incidence and clinical consequences of immunogen...
Abstract Objective: To compare changes in healthcare resource utilization and costs among members with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pDPN), postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), or fibromyalgia (FM)...
Videos
Andrew Callos of Pfizer on building a rare disease franchise at World Orphan Drug Congress USA 2013
Andrew Callos, Vice President of Commercial Development, Hematology, Endocrinology, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases at Pfizer, presented at World Orphan Drug ...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Mason-pfizer Monkey Virus
A species of BETARETROVIRUS isolated from mammary carcinoma in rhesus monkeys. It appears to have evolved from a recombination between a murine B oncovirus and a primate C oncovirus related to the baboon endogenous virus. Several serologically distinct strains exist. MPMV induces SIMIAN AIDS.
Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acquired defect of cellular immunity that occurs naturally in macaques infected with SRV serotypes, experimentally in monkeys inoculated with SRV or MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; (MPMV), or in monkeys infected with SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS.
