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  1. Pfizer Approves $10 Billion Share Buyback Program

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    Pfizer 's board of directors has declared a 24 addition to the new share buyback plan, Pfizer also has clearance to buy $3.9 billion shares from an earlier buyback program. Pfizer Inc. shares rose 8 cents to $28.18 in

  2. 5 Things to Know This Morning

    Mon, 6 May 2013

    group's national convention wraps up in Houston. 5. Pfizer Starts Selling Viagra Online Men who are bashful about that little blue pill. In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer Inc., told The Associated Press that they will begin

  3. New Heart Warning for Popular Antibiotics

    Tue, 12 Mar 2013

    new warning. Zithromax, made by Pfizer , comes in tablet and liquid form safety is of the utmost importance to Pfizer and we continuously monitor the safety label, as approved by the FDA," Pfizer said in an email statement to ABCNews

  4. Women Business Execs Learn When to Hold, and Fold, 'Em

    Mon, 10 Dec 2012

    games. So in 2004, Leikind founded her company and has since hosted poker events for women at 40 corporations, including Pfizer , Hearst, and Morgan Stanley. But her focus is not just on the game itself, but also the strategy and negotiating skills

  5. Obama Inauguration's Big Donor Packages Previewed

    Sat, 8 Dec 2012

    had similar arrangements for donors including Time Warner, Wachovia, Home Depot, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. and Pfizer Inc., at $250,000 each. But this year's reversal is another departure from the pledges then-candidate Obama made

  6. Generic Lipitor Production Halted to Clear Glass From Capsules

    Fri, 30 Nov 2012

    statement. The government says it does not expect any immediate shortage because other companies make generic versions of Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor. Ranbaxy first issued recalls Nov. 9 because of glass contamination, which, according to the government

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  1. Parkinson's Patient Wins Lawsuit Over Gay Sex Addiction

    Thu, 29 Nov 2012

    8.2 million in a suit against the makers of Mirapex , Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim. And in 2010, more than 100 patients in Australia sued Pfizer and Aspen Pharmacare -- the makers of Cabaser and Permax

  2. Hurricane Sandy Shuts Down the Stock Market

    Mon, 29 Oct 2012

    large and slow-moving storm, it might take days for the airline industry to restore normal service in much of the East. Pfizer and Entergy are among big companies postponing the release of their third-quarter earnings reports because of the hurricane

  3. Multivitamins Cut Cancer Risk in Men, Study Finds

    Wed, 17 Oct 2012

    by almost 80 percent. "Clearly however, taking a multivitamin is easy; changing dietary patterns is hard," he said. The Centrum Silver® used in the study was provided by the manufacturer Pfizer , but Pfizer did not fund the study.

  4. Investing: Biotech funds leaders in 2012

    Thu, 27 Sep 2012

    attraction: In a time when bank CD yields are smaller than a homeopathic pill, many big drug companies pay big dividends. Pfizer ( PFE ), for example, has a dividend yield of 3.46%, according to Morningstar, the Chicago fund trackers. The stock

  5. 7 Richest Snitches: Time to Rat Out Your Boss?

    Mon, 17 Sep 2012

    his own complicity in the tax fraud he said his former employer UBS had perpetrated. 2. Pfizer : $102 million; September 2009 A group of 10 for Pfizer employees, including original whistleblower John Kopchinski, were awarded $102 million

  6. Financial crisis ushers in 'The Age of Safety' for investors

    Tue, 4 Sep 2012

    from Honolulu, has loaded up on dividend-paying stocks such as cigarette maker Philip Morris, drug companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and toothpaste maker Colgate-Palmolive. Those stocks offer annual yields ranging from

  7. Research Halted on Major Alzheimer's Drug

    Tue, 7 Aug 2012

    anti-amyloid drug bapineuzumab, Pfizer and Janssen said they were halting according to a statement released by Pfizer . This includes extension studies anyway for anti-amyloid drugs. Pfizer and Janssen stopped short of saying

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  1. Pfizer Halts New Drug

    Mon, 4 Dec 2006

    blow to the nation's biggest drugmaker and to millions of heart patients who called for new drugs. Clinical trials and Pfizer 's promising new heart medication were abruptly canceled because of serious problems joining us from Boston is ABC medical

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    millions of heart patients who called for new drugs. Clinical trials and Pfizer's promising new heart medication were abruptly canceled because of serious problems joining us from Boston is ABC medical editor. Doctor Tim Johnson
  2. Pfizer Recalls Birth Control Packets

    Wed, 1 Feb 2012

    Pfizer has announcing major recall of its birth control pills because about packaging problem. The drugmaker is recalling one million

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    Pfizer has announcing major recall of its birth control pills because about packaging problem. The drugmaker is recalling one million packets of little overall 28 tablets and generic versions of the pills sold under the -- -- pharmaceuticals -- The problem is the pills are mixed up inside the packages and taking them in the wrong order could put women at risk for unintended pregnancies.
  3. Drug Bust: Pfizer Fined for Fraud

    Wed, 2 Sep 2009

    about the world's largest drugmaker Pfizer . The company agreed to pay 2.3 from arthritis. But the drug giant Pfizer had other ideas. Pumping up its bottom sales reps said in a statement. And Pfizer I was expected to increase profits

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    week from tonight. Meanwhile major news today about the world's largest drugmaker Pfizer . The company agreed to pay 2.3 billion dollars that is the largest fine in history. And agreed to plead guilty to charges it illegally marketed some of its products one in particular for unapproved uses here's Lisa stark. -- was approved by the FDA to treat pain from arthritis. But the drug giant Pfizer had other ideas. Pumping up its bottom line by pitching doctors to prescribe the drug free thinks it was never approved for.
    whistle blower a former company's sales reps said in a statement. And Pfizer I was expected to increase profits at all cost even when salesmen endangering lives. I couldn't do that. In exchange for hearing company's sales pitches doctors were paid up to 15100. Dollars to attend meetings. And were treated to conferences at large resorts given airfare hotels meals even massages. Their job. To help Pfizer figure out how best to promote Baxter for the off label indications. And it turned out even when used correctly backstroke was dangerous linked to possible heart attacks and strokes and pulled off the market. Although it's a record punishment Pfizer has plenty of company. In the last eight years drug manufacturers have paid over eleven billion dollars in penalties. For everything from
  4. Pfizer Pulls Lipitor Ads

    Tue, 26 Feb 2008

    Drugmaker Pfizer is ending its controversial ad campaign featuring artificial heart pioneer think it's it's really clearly an issue that our ad campaign with Pfizer is an educational campaign to teach that. That the nation but with the

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    Drugmaker Pfizer is ending its controversial ad campaign featuring artificial heart pioneer. Robert Jarvis their concerns the ads for the anti cholesterol drug Lipitor
    think it's it's really clearly an issue that our ad campaign with Pfizer is an educational campaign to teach that. That the nation but with the -- educational as an educational it's important that people.
  5. U.S. Spending Up Despite Payroll Tax

    Mon, 29 Apr 2013

    of what they should do which is Poland and the horns a little bit. Now are pharmaceutical news this morning Merck and Pfizer joining forces to come up with a new drug to treat type two diabetes. It's a little unusual for this kind of camaraderie

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    a little bit. Now are -- pharmaceutical news this morning Merck and Pfizer joining forces to come up with a new drug to treat type two diabetes. It's a little unusual for this kind of
  6. Z-Pak Could Lead to Death for Those With Heart Conditions, Says FDA

    Tue, 12 Mar 2013

    or azith row micin, can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart, which can be fatal. Tonight pfizer tells abc news they're updating their labels with that abc warning, listing those conditions. Many patients may not

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    in the electrical activity of the heart, which can be fatal. Tonight pfizer tells abc news they're updating their labels with that abc warning, listing those conditions. Many patients may not know they have those
  7. Roundtable I: Karl Rove and Jim Messina

    Sun, 24 Mar 2013

    pills look like the real thing but team5 investigates they're dangerous and sometimes deadly fakes. We teamed up with pfizer and homeland security to give you an inside look into the counterfeit prescription drug trade and a war on drugs that could

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    team5 investigates they're dangerous and sometimes deadly fakes. We teamed up with pfizer and homeland security to give you an inside look into the counterfeit prescription drug trade and a war on drugs that could
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