Pfizer Drug Wins OK for Blood Infections
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Drug maker Pfizer Inc. PFE.N on  Tuesday said it won regulatory clearance to sell its  anti-fungus medicine Vfend to treat serious hospital-acquired  bloodstream infections.
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Roche Holding, the drug company, has received European Union approval for its colon cancer treatment Avastin.
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US anti-monopoly officials approve Johnson & Johnson's purchase of Pfizer's over-the-counter medicines.
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Schering's hepatitis C drug works as well as Roche's.
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A federal appeals court has cleared  the way for Alpharma Inc. ALO.N to launch a generic form of  Pfizer Inc.'s PFE.N Neurontin capsules to treat epilepsy,  sending Alpharma shares sharply higher.
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A potent new anti-clotting drug from Eli  Lilly and Co proved as safe and effective as Sanofi-Aventis's  top-seller Plavix in a mid-stage clinical trial, researchers  said on Sunday.  Now Lilly and its partner Sankyo Co. Ltd. aim to demonstrate  clear superiority for their compound, known as prasugrel or  CS-747, in a much larger Phase III study involving up to 13,000  patients that is about to get under way.
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Mylan Laboratories Inc.  said on Tuesday it won U.S. approval for its generic versions of Pfizer Inc.'s  blockbuster anti-depressant Zoloft.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's biggest  drugmaker, said on Monday a U.S. court had ruled in its favor  in patent litigation with Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals over  anti-nausea drug Zofran.
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Pfizer Inc. said Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its medication for pain caused by nerve damage from diabetes or shingles.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc  said on Friday that clinical trial results showed its top-seller Advair had an edge over Pfizer Inc's  rival product Spiriva in treating patients with the lung disease COPD.
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NEW YORK -- At the request of the Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer Inc. ( PFE) agreed to limit its promotion of Celebrex, in the wake of a clinical trial that tied the painkiller to an increased rate of
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A Pfizer Inc. drug won expanded federal approval Thursday as the first treatment for fibromyalgia, a mysterious syndrome marked by muscle pain and fatigue.
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A New Orleans jury handed Merck &  Co.  a victory Wednesday in the latest federal Vioxx  product liability trial, finding that the drugmaker adequately  warned of the heart risks associated with the medicine.
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N, the world's  biggest drugmaker, on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings  rose on higher sales of key medicines and favorable foreign  exchange factors.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - A court ruling upholding the patent on blockbuster blood-thinning drug Plavix has reignited talk France's Sanofi-Aventis  will bid for its smaller U.S. partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. .
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Current data do not show  Pfizer Inc.'s pain reliever Celebrex is safe for treating  rheumatoid arthritis in children, a U.S. advisory panel  narrowly ruled on Wednesday.
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Drug giant Pfizer Inc. reiterated Thursday that its arthritis drug Celebrex was safe to use after competitor Merck &amp; Co. pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market worldwide after studies showed it raised the risk of heart attack.