WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Pfizer Inc. issued a "Dear Healhcare Professional" letter Monday warning of the presence of an impurity in its Viracept medication.
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 30 (UPI) -- Pfizer faces criminal charges in Nigeria over a drug trial using children during a meningitis epidemic 11 years ago.
BOSTON, April 4 (UPI) -- Australian firm pSivida said Wednesday it has entered into a $165 million research and licensing deal with Pfizer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Pfizer Inc. will slash 10,000 jobs and close plants to cut costs by $2 billion a year by the end of 2008, the pharmaceutical giant said in New York Monday. The job cuts, about 10 percent of its total work force, include more than 20 percent of its Europea
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it has discontinued research on its heart disease drug, torcetrapib.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Pfizer Inc., the New York company that makes Lipitor and Celebrex, will lay off about 2,200 U.S. sales personnel as it seeks to become more efficient.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Pfizer Animal Health, a division of New York's Pfizer Inc., will spend $155 million for Embrex Inc., maker of the Inovoject vaccine-delivery system.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. says clinical trials of its heart medication torcetrapib suggest the drug has a potentially serious side effect.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Austrian Patent Office has ruled for Pfizer Inc. in its patent fight over Lipitor's active ingredient against generic drug maker Ranbaxy. Ranbaxy, an Indian company, can appeal the ruling, but the patent will remain in effect during the appeals proces
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Ranbaxy said Wednesday the District Court of The Hague ruled that its generic product violated Pfizer's patent on Lipitor.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A Dutch court has ruled that Pfizer Inc.'s main patent on the active ingredient in Lipitor stops an Indian generic drug maker from making the chemical.
NEW YORK, July 26 (UPI) -- U.S.-based Pfizer Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical company, says it has decided to sell a new heart treatment medication as a standalone pill.
NEW YORK, June 29 (UPI) -- Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Inc. says it will offer a discounted generic version of its drug Zoloft, the nation's best selling antidepressant.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 26 (UPI) -- Johnson & Johnson, which is based in New Jersey, is paying $16.6 billion in cash for the consumer healthcare business of Pfizer Inc.
NEW YORK, June 8 (UPI) -- First-round bids for Pfizer Inc.'s consumer products and over-the-counter medicines unit has produced offers near $15 billion from U.S. and British firms.
