Nigerian state files criminal suit against Pfizer
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KANO, Nigeria  - A Nigerian state has filed criminal charges against Pfizer Inc. for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic, court papers showed on Wednesday.
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Officials in Nigeria have brought criminal charges against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for the company's alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic.
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The family of a Japanese boy who died after taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu are to launch an unprecedented lawsuit against a health ministry body after it said the controversial drug was not responsible for his death.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A Nigerian court on Monday ordered the arrests of three of the defendants in a trial over a drug test conducted by Pfizer in 1996 which Nigerian authorities say killed 11 children and left others disabled.
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KANO, Nigeria -- A security guard in this dusty Nigerian city is living with tragedy -- a 14-year-old son whose dazed eyes, slow speech and uneven gait signal brain damage. Mustapha Mohammed says he knows who to blame -- Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker.
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A Canadian class-action lawsuit has been  launched against Pfizer Inc. alleging that its arthritis drug  Celebrex caused cardiovascular side effects, the law firm  launching the suit said on Friday.
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Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, has appealed to a Beijing court against a decision to overturn its China patent for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Authorities in northern Nigeria have filed a $2 billion civil case and were preparing criminal charges against the U.S. drug company Pfizer
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Both the city and state of New York sue Merck over Vioxx payments
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A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of people who have used the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is taking legal steps against Poland's largest drug maker for registering an erectile dysfunction drug with the same active ingredient as Viagra, officials of both companies said Wednesday.
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A Nigerian court Monday allowed a former subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. to be joined as a defendant in the seven billion-dollar lawsuit the Nigerian government has filed against the US pharmaceuticals company for an alleged illegal clinical trial in 1996.
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Pfizer settled a lawsuit against a rival drug maker, Novartis, for alleged infringement of a United States patent for the antibiotic medicine Zithromax. Pfizer sued Novartis and Sandoz, a unit operating in the United States, in February 2006 in federal court in Wilmington, Del., saying it would be irreparably harmed by the rival companiesâ use of the invention for forms of crystal azithromycin; Pfizer sought unspecified damages. The parties have agreed to settle all claims over the 2005 drug patent, and the suit was dismissed June 25, according to court papers. Pfizer is based in New York, and Novartis is based in Basel, Switzerland.
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Nigeria filed a new lawsuit Friday against US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claiming some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming from drug trials.
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Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. PFE.N is under  investigation by state attorneys general from New York and  Connecticut in connection with improper promotion of drugs for  uses other than those approved by U.S. regulators, Pfizer said  in a regulatory filing.
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Pfizer Inc.&#39;s manufacturing plant in Portage has been put on notice by the US Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly violating federal.
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A Nigerian court rejected on Tuesday an attempt by the government to amend its case claiming $6.95 billion damages from U.S. drug company Pfizer Inc for a drug trial on children in 1996.