Pfizer wins a round in trial on Nigeria children's deaths
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Pfizer Inc. , the world's largest pharmaceutical maker, said a Nigerian court ruled against adding more claims to allegations that the company improperly tested a meningitis drug on children in 1996.
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Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
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Death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting 438 children with HIV-tainted blood upheld.
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Mohamed al Fayed won a court battle Friday to have a jury take part in the British inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi Fayed.Comment
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Pfizer Inc. on Tuesday said its experimental drug for a deadly form of stomach cancer proved safe and effective in a late-stage trial, prompting researchers to halt the study seven months ahead of schedule.
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Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus.
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DENVER Indianapolis-based Guidant Corporation says it has won the right to a new trial in its lawsuit seeking up to 140 (m) million dollars in damages from another maker of implantable defibrillators.
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Mohamed al Fayed won a court battle Friday to have a jury preside over the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed.
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A Libyan court is to deliver its verdict in the retrial of six foreign medics accused of infecting children with HIV.
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Nigeria launches a $7bn suit against the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, accusing it of conducting improper trials.
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Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Pfizer Inc.'s pain reliever Celebrex should be approved for treating rheumatoid arthritis in children, a U.S. advisory panel said in a 15-1 vote on Wednesday despite concerns about the drug's long-term safety.
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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.
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A federal jury ruled in favor of Merck &amp; Co. Inc. on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky man's heart attack.
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NEW YORK/OTTAWA  - Pfizer Inc. PFE.N said on  Thursday its arthritis drug Celebrex was safe after a report in  a Canadian newspaper linked it to 14 deaths,
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SHANGHAI, China  - Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug company, said Tuesday that it has filed an appeal in a Beijing court against a government decision rejecting the company's Chinese patent for its erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.
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CHICAGO -- A federal jury Wednesday found an Islamic charity liable in the death of a 17-year-old boy and ordered it and several other defendants to pay $52 million to the victim&#39;s family.