Pfizer Ends Drug Cards for Elderly
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Pfizer ended its widely used discount card for the elderly, leaving Medicare beneficiaries at least temporarily without access to reduced prices for popular medicines.
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The telecom company cuts medical benefits for its retirees.
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Some elderly Americans simply stop taking their prescribed drugs when insurance plans cease paying for them, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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The US National Institutes of Health halted an Alzheimer&#39;s prevention study of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex painkiller and the generic naproxen drug because of a heart risk.
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The U.S. Medicare health insurance  program said on Friday it would reduce payments for anemia  drugs when used to treat elderly and disabled patients who are  undergoing kidney dialysis.
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Shares of Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, sank Monday on news that the company had halted development of a key new cholesterol treatment that was heralded as its engine for future growth as the company struggles with stagnant sales.
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Low-income seniors and working families without prescription drug coverage can begin applying Tuesday for a state discount card that will cut the cost of their medication by an average 20 percent a month.
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Severely clogged arteries, obesity and other factors caused a 68-year-old grandmother&#039;s heart attack &amp;#151; not her use of Vioxx, lawyers for the drug&#039;s maker told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in New Jersey&#039;s latest case over the withdrawn painkiller.
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Doctors writing in a prominent medical  journal on Friday recommended that physicians stop prescribing  Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra painkiller, just as a large study found  the drug maker's sister drug, Celebrex, doubled risk of heart  attacks.
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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said a government-sponsored cancer-prevention trial of its blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex was halted after patients taking it had more than
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that a long-term study of its Norvasc blood pressure treatment in patients with other heart disease risks was stopped early because of the drug&#39;s significant benefits.
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Pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Laboratories is withdrawing all its generic versions of HIV drugs from the World Health Organisation, WHO, list of approved HIV medicines.
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WASHINGTON -- A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretrovirals from the World Health Organization's list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
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Doctors writing in a prominent medical  journal on Friday recommended that physicians stop prescribing  Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra painkiller, just as a large study found  the drugmaker's sister drug, Celebrex,  doubled risk of heart  attacks.
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On Jan. 1, 2006, the drug-card program will be replaced by a completely different drug benefit.
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Sitting at a card table in the corner of Barry Coleman's Pharmacy, a 90-year-old woman rolled up her sleeve and got one of the last flu shots available in the area.
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India-based Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.