News tagged with 'Pfizer'

Drugmaker, Pfizer, is now disclosing what it pays to doctors in speaking fees and consulting in a downloadable, searchable database, an early jump on the Physician Payments Sunshine provision.

Pfizer has combined operations with Wyeth, following the closure of a $68 billion acquisition last week. The deal included its subsidiary Fort Dodge Animal Health, which is now part of Pfizer Animal Health.

Sheller, P.C. law firm, also an InjuryBoard Member, was instrumental in aiding the government to recoup record numbers of dollars for federal and state governments, taxpayers and whistleblowers in two historic cases against Eli Lilly and Pfizer.

Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, has been slapped with a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal fine for promoting four drugs for off-label use, paying off doctors and billing the government. Pfizer is a "repeat offender" says the government.

At least 26 scientific papers touting hormone therapy for menopausal women, were secretly produced with the help of ghostwriters and for-hire communications companies, as revealed by unsealed court documents in litigation against Wyeth filed by women who developed breast cancer.

Until now, dogs diagnosed with cancer were given human drugs, but Palladia, made by Pfizer, received FDA approval for the treatment of cancer in dogs. Each year, there are an estimated 1.2 million cases of canine cancer reported.

The state appeals court in Houston has ruled Wyeth must face a personal injury lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Prempro, a hormone-replacement drug, caused her breast cancer.

Access to doctors by drug sales reps are down 13 percent, according to a new report.  That translates to about $2 billion a year in expenses and salaries lost to pharmaceutical giants supporting the 90,000 reps who make up the U.S. sales force.  Six percent of doctors reportedly will not see reps from any company.

The Boston U.S. Attorney’s office has subpoenaed financial records belonging to Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Mass. after it was revealed that he faked data in at least 21 anesthesiology studies favoring the drug companies he received money from. 

Pfizer has paid $750 million to resolve 35,000 claims over its diabetes drug Rezulin which was withdrawn in 2000 after it was linked to 63 or more deaths from liver damage.

Pfizer plans to become the first drugmaker to disclose on its web site the lucrative payments it makes to doctors who promote and research its drugs. The move is intended to promote transparency and regain the trust of the public after revelations that some academics on the take were not disclosing the relationship.

Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash and stock deal of $68 billion that makes the world's largest drug company even larger.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA) has issued an update linking Chantix sold as Champix (in the UK), to reports of depression and suicide related events.

There may have been unknown factors at work; or it may be a fluke. But the case of a 42-year-old AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia gives new hope that gene-therapy strategies may one day hold a cure for AIDS.

Pfizer Inc is the latest drug maker to abandon an obesity treatment that works by blocking the receptors in the brain that makes people hungry after smoking marijuana.