Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
It's amazing that companies still don't recognize when it's probably best to shackle up the lawyers. A guy in New York who drove around Manhattan with a 25-foot-long fake missile with "Viva Viagra" painted on its side, has been sued by Pfizer , the maker of the drug Viagra for trademark infringement. It's questionable how Pfizer convinced a judge that this is use "in commerce," but apparently...
Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Here we go again. Multiple media sources reported on allegations that Pfizer Inc , the world's largest pharmaceutical company, attempted to manipulate and suppress clinical research results unfavorable to one of its products. Per the Wall Street Journal , Pfizer Inc. marketers urged the suppression of medical studies that reached unfavorable conclusions about the effectiveness of the...
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
By STEPHANIE SAUL The drug maker Pfizer earlier this decade manipulated the publication of scientific studies to bolster the use of its epilepsy drug Neurontin for other disorders, while suppressing research that did not support those uses, according to experts who reviewed thousands of company documents for plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the company. Pfizer’s tactics included delaying...
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
By Stephanie Saul NEW YORK: The U.S. drug maker Pfizer earlier this decade manipulated the publication of scientific studies to bolster the use of its epilepsy drug Neurontin for other disorders, while suppressing research that did not support those uses, according to specialists who reviewed thousands of company documents for plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the company. Pfizer's tactics...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Anyone know more about the people named in red? Pfizer tried to suppress medical studies that reached unfavorable conclusions about the effectiveness of the company's epilepsy drug Neurontin, internal Pfizer documents submitted in a lawsuit against the company showed. The documents suggest that Pfizer's marketers influenced Neurontin's scientific record to boost sales at least...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Sun Microsystems announced it has reduced its GHG emissions from U.S. operations by 23 percent, surpassing its original goal of a 20 percent reduction over 2002 levels by 2012. The achievement has earned the company praise from the EPA. Sun has pledged an additional 20 percent GHG emissions reduction from worldwide operations over 2007 levels by [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aetna and Pfizer Inc are co-sponsoring a recreational health fair for Hartford families on October 18 to raise awareness of the importance of
Contract Pharma Breaking News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Pfizer , as part of its strategy to improve growth, plans to reorganize its business units in an effort to better coordinate drug development and commercialization. These changes are part of chief executive officer Jeffrey Kindler's plan to "establish smaller operating units that can enhance innovation and accountability, but will draw upon the advantages of scale and resources Pfizer...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A lawsuit against Pfizer is turning up some intensely embarrassing memos that show the marketing department's hands-on approach to new research studies that don't exactly bolster their sales pitch. "We are not interested at all in having this paper published because it is negative!!" wrote Angela Crespo, Pfizer's senior marketing manager in 2002, about a new study of the company's blockbuster...
Overdosed America (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Pfizer's Headache Lawsuit charges drugmaker was deceptive about Neurontin. Mary Carmichael NEWSWEEK, Oct 8, 2008 http://www.newsweek.com/id/162906/ ... In the meantime, Abramson—who wrote about many similar cases in the 2004 book "Overdosed America"—said in an interview that the new charges are just one more example of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. "There was just a wanton manipulation...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Big Pharma manipulating studies? Gee, what a surprise. Doug Farrago explains this is a major reason why the public doesn't trust pharmaceutical companies.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc tried to suppress medical studies that did not support the use of its epilepsy drug Neurontin, internal Pfizer documents submitted in a U.S. lawsuit against the company showed.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Aetna and Pfizer Inc are co-sponsoring a recreational health fair for Hartford families on October 18 to raise awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyles in the family and the community. The free event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine, in Hartford's Bushnell Park.
bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The drug maker Pfizer earlier this decade manipulated the publication of scientific studies to bolster the use of its epilepsy drug Neurontin for other disorders, while suppressing research that did not support those uses, according to experts who reviewed thousands of company documents for plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the company. (New York Times)
U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
From the Wall Street Journal (pd. subs. req'd.): In 2002, Angela Crespo, then Neurontin's senior marketing manager, emailed an outside firm that was contracted to write up the study's results: "We are not interested at all in having this paper published because it is negative!!" Pfizer declined to make the three employees in the emails available for interviews. From the New York Times story...
