Pharmaceutical Sector

Pfizer Decides to Sell Viagra on Its Website

Pfizer Decides to Sell Viagra on Its Website

Pfizer has introduced a new option for those who feel shy when it comes to help in the bedroom, a new report has uncovered.

Men, who are bashful while asking for Viagra at a drugstore, would now be able to avail the same online. Pfizer Inc. has announced that it has planned to put the little blue pill on sales on its website.

Link Found between Avastin and Flesh-Eating-Disease

Link Found between Avastin and Flesh-Eating-Disease

Health Canada today issued a warning that a link has been found between Avastin and flesh-eating disease. The same has concerned one and all.

Avastin is a drug that is prescribed to help patients of brain cancer fight their disease. Also, chemo is suggested so that secondary cancers in the lungs and colon could be fought.

Hepatitis C Combo Therapy by Bristol-Myers Able to Nail the Disease

Hepatitis C Combo Therapy by Bristol-Myers Able to Nail the Disease

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has claimed that its experimental combination of three medicines for hepatitis C has been successful in killing the disease. The New York drug maker, also known as BMY has claimed that these experimental medicines have succeeded in treating the virus in 15 patients out of total 16.

AstraZeneca Working on Cancer Deal with BIND

AstraZeneca Working on Cancer Deal with BIND

Reports suggested about a nanomedicines pact signed between the AstraZeneca and the Bind Therapeutics. The pact is around a deal that is expected to be of $200 million to the privately held US biopharma firm.

Additional Funding by Government for N.J. Biopharma Company

Additional Funding by Government for N.J. Biopharma Company

Reports have suggested about receiving of additional funding by a biopharmaceutical company in Princeton. The additions made to the funding were an outcome of seeking of new attentions by the company after it mailed to several government officials, including President Obama.

FDA Advisory Panel Would Meet to Discuss Avandia’s Safety

FDA Advisory Panel Would Meet to Discuss Avandia’s Safety

U. S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will meet on June 5-6 to discuss the safety issues related to GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia diabetes drug. The drug is not sold in the United States.

Insider Trading Inquiry on Herbalife; KPMG Cancels Audit

Insider Trading Inquiry on Herbalife; KPMG Cancels Audit

Federal Authorities have opened an inquiry on insider trading charges on nutritional supplements maker Herbalife. Authorities in Los Angeles were inquiring Scott I. London, former partner in charge of audit at KPMG in relation with leaking confidential information about Herbalife and Sekchers USA.

Roche Agrees To Provide Complete Details of Clinical Trials of Tamiflu

Roche Agrees To Provide Complete Details of Clinical Trials of Tamiflu

It took three years to Roche to reach at a decision in which they would be publicizing a data of 74 clinical trials with regard to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). For past three years, debate has been going to reveal the data about all the clinical trials carried out for Tamiflu.

Pharma Companies Pay £40m Yearly to Doctors for Promoting Drugs

Pharma Companies Pay £40m Yearly to Doctors for Promoting Drugs

Reports of a trade body, representing a pharmaceutical company, suggest that various drug companies are paying an estimated amount of £40m yearly to the British doctors for their expenses on service fees, hotels, flights and travel.

Titan Soars by 54% after FDA Recommends Implant to Treat Painkiller Addiction

Titan Soars by 54% after FDA Recommends Implant to Treat Painkiller Addiction

Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc. soared by 54% after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended approval of experimental implant to treat painkiller addiction.

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