Pfizer appeals Chinese government decision against patent for Viagra
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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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Pfizer loses a patent case over its top compound.
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British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it was giving up a Chinese patent for a component of its popular diabetes drug Avandia following a challenge by three Chinese competitors.
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US drug regulators are warning people not to buy or consume Actra-Rx or Yilishen, a Chinese product for improving men&#39;s sexual performance, because of potential risks.
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HEALTH Minister Manto TshabalalaMsimang filed a notice to appeal in the Constitutional Court yesterday against Monday&#39;s Supreme Court of Appeals judgment, which scrapped the medicine-price controls.
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Pfizer Inc.  and Microsoft Corp.  said on Thursday they filed parallel lawsuits against Web site operators and spam advertisers that they say sell illegal cheap versions of Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.
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China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday.
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Medical device maker Guidant Corp. (GDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it won an appeal of a patent lawsuit against St.
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WASHINGTON - Viagra, the blockbuster impotence pill that is copied and counterfeited around the world, is one of the first drugs to get a little radio chip tracking device under a new Food and Drug Administration initiative announced on Monday.
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At a research and development meeting for analysts on Nov. 30, Pfizer (PFE ) stayed on message all day long. Despite questions about possible safety issues with arthritis pain medication Celebrex, patent challenges
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A San Francisco public health official has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to reclassify Viagra as a controlled substance, which would place the popular impotence pill in a category reserved for prescribed steroids and other legal drugs
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MONTREAL (CP) - A Quebec consumers group will ask the courts to hear a class action lawsuit against Merck Frosst Canada on behalf of Quebecers who have bought Vioxx, which has been pulled from the market.
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Pfizer Inc.  said on Tuesday  that it had won a patent case over its Lipitor drug in an Irish  court, which ruled a patent protecting the blockbuster  cholesterol fighter would be infringed by a competing product  from India&#39;s Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.
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Two television advertisements for Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra should be withdrawn for claiming a return of sexual desire and omitting key information, the Food and Drug Administration said in a letter to the company released on Monday.
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What's up with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation suit against Pfizer for promoting Viagra as a recreational drug, claiming the ads lead some into risky behavior? In Bodyhack.
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Dec. 19--Pfizer, the world&#39;s biggest drug maker, and the rest of the pharmaceutical sector will come under renewed pressure this week after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned doctors to consider
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The government ordered Pfizer Inc. to yank cheeky television ads that promised better sex for men taking Viagra because they failed to disclose known risks associated with the drug, according to a letter released on Monday.