US drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Nektar Therapeutics on Wednesday warned of cases of lung cancer in clinical trials of their inhaled insulin Exubera.
The findings led Nektar to announce it was abandoning its search for a new marketing partner for the troubled drug, effectively signaling Exubera’s demise after entering the market in January 2006.
Pfizer, the world’s [...]
Ten years ago this month the lives of millions of men and women were changed almost overnight by the advent of a little blue pill — the first oral treatment for impotence.
Viagra, developed by accident by scientists at Pfizer Laboratories, was first approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration on March 27, [...]
French customs officials have intercepted a shipment of 224,000 fake Viagra and Cialis anti-impotence pills worth 2.4 million euros ($3.5 million), the Budget Ministry said on Monday.
The copies of the best-selling drugs were found on December 18 during a search at the French capital’s main air hub at Roissy, in a freight cargo on its [...]
Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, is the world’s biggest spender on research, the European Commission said Friday.
That means it outranks rival Johnson & Johnson, software giant Microsoft Corp. and auto companies Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG.
Pfizer spent 5.8 billion euros ($8.18 billion) last year to take the top spot from Ford on the [...]
