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 […]
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Pfizer Pivots to Cancer Drugs for Growth
Pfizer is seeking a new round of growth by treating cancer and is among the big pharmaceutical companies trying to expand in oncology.
Drugmaker GSK to split after striking Pfizer consumer health deal
GlaxoSmithKline plans to split into two businesses — one for prescription drugs and vaccines, the other for over-the-counter products — after forming a new joint venture with Pfizer’s consumer health division.
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 […]
Pfizer: Breast cancer drug to be given to women for free pending NHS appraisal
A DRUG described as one of the most important advances in treating breast cancer in the past 20 years is to be given to women for free while the NHS appraises it. Daily Express :: Health Feed