CDC recommends BA.4/5-targeting COVID boosters from Moderna and Pfizer [Updated]

Enlarge / An Army veteran waits the recommended 15 minutes to see if he will have any adverse reactions after receiving his second COVID-19 booster shot at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on April 1, 2022, in Hines, Illinois. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson) Update 9/2/2022, 10:05 am ET: The Centers for Disease Control and […]

Pfizer raises prices on 100 drugs—again—despite backlash from public, lawmakers

Enlarge / Pfizer’s little, blue Viagra tablets get big price tag that have people seeing red. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Despite public and political pressure, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer keeps raising the prices of its drugs—standing apart from some of its rivals who have vowed to rein in periodic price hiking. Around 100 of Pfizer’s drugs […]

Pfizer CEO gets 61% pay raise—to $27.9 million—as drug prices continue to climb

As drug giant Pfizer Inc. hiked the price of dozens of drugs in 2017, it also jacked up the compensation of CEO Ian Read by 61 percent, putting his total compensation at $ 27.9 million, according to financial filings reported by Bloomberg. Pfizer’s board reportedly approved the compensation boost because they saw it as a […]

Circle Pharma Announces Publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry of Results from Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.

PRESS RELEASE: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 17, 2018– Circle Pharma, Inc. today announced that results from its collaborative work with Pfizer Inc. to develop a potent and orally bioavailable macrocycle modulator of the chemokine receptor, CXCR7, have been published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The goal of the collaboration was to deploy Circle’s […]

Pfizer is taking its fight with J&J over a blockbuster drug to court

REUTERS/Adam Hunger Two of the world’s largest drugmakers are heading to court over a blockbuster arthritis treatment. Pfizer on Wednesday filed a complaint against Johnson & Johnson, claiming the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was taking anticompetitive steps to block the sale of a drug called Inflectra.  Inflectra is Pfizer’s version of J&J’s blockbuster drug Remicade — which […]