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• Pfizer Blasted in Canada for $780K CME Program

  BNET - 2009-12-03

  Pfizer PFE can't catch a break in Canada right now. It's being blasted for a C$780,000 continuing medical education program it has set up through the Canadian Medical Association. Critics believe that doctor education should not be influenced by drug companies, which have a different set of interests than patients....

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer to Cap Retiree Health Benefits: Out of Time? Out of Luck.

  BNET - 2009-09-21

  Pfizer is to cap the amount of healthcare benefits it will pay to retired employees based on their years of service with the company, according to The Day. Any retiree who hasn't worked long enough for Pfizer or who has expensive medical bills may find Pfizer's willingness to continue covering...

  Tags: Health Benefit, Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Security, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Lilly, Pfizer and AstraZeneca Jockeying for Position on Healthcare Reform

  BNET - 2009-04-17

  Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Bayer, Roche and AstraZeneca all agree on healthcare reform in the U.S.: They want to see the system changed so long as it in no way hurts their companies. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: AstraZeneca Plc., Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Starved of News, Press Speculates on Deals for Abbott, Pfizer and Wyeth

  BNET - 2009-01-05

  New Year is a slow news period, which is why the business press filled up with next-to-useless corporate strategy stories about Abbott Labs, Wyeth and Pfizer. The one thing these stories all have in common? They're long on speculation and short on substance. Let's take them one at a time....

  Tags: Wyeth, Abbott Laboratories Inc., Pfizer Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Mahady, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• NFL Locks Pfizer Exec Out of Player Health Meeting

  BNET - 2008-12-15

  Pfizer's director of health policy, Eleanor Perfetto, was locked out of a meeting about former NFL players with health problems even though she is married to an ex-player with dementia and is thus not able to represent himself. Perfetto was barred from the meeting for the 19th Century-style reason that...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Player, NFL, Health Care, Eleanor Perfetto, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer's Viagra Will Not Be Sold Over the Counter in Europe

  BNET - 2008-11-20

  Pfizer continues to meet resistance to its attempt to transform Viagra from a legitimate drug for a real medical condition into a party drug that promises "a more satisfying sexual experience." Today Pfizer announced that it has withdrawn its application to sell Viagra as an OTC medicine in Europe. The...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Viagra, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Invites Public to View and Listen to Webcast of Pfizer Participation at Healthcare Conference

  - 2008-06-04

  NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc invites investors and the general public to view and listen to a webcast of a presentation by Martin Mackay, President, Pfizer Global Research & Development, at the Goldman Sachs Twenty-Ninth Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, June 11th at 10:40 a.m. Pacific Daylight Saving Time.

  Tags: health care, Pfizer Inc., Webcast

• Premier Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Save with New Pricing on Two Pfizer Branded Antifungal Products

  - 2008-05-19

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced a new antifungal portfolio pricing program with Pfizer Inc. that offers discounted pricing on Vfend[R] voriconazole and Eraxis[R] anidulafungin formulations, the first time Premier and Pfizer have worked together on branded products in this way.

  Tags: health care, Pfizer Inc., pricing strategy

• Pfizer Invites Public to View and Listen to Webcast of Pfizer Participation at Healthcare Conference

  - 2008-05-15

  NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc invites investors and the general public to view and listen to a webcast of a presentation by Pfizer Inc Chief Financial Officer, Frank D'Amelio, at the Citigroup Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, May 21st, at 3:30pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

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• Pfizer Invites Public to View and Listen to Webcast of Pfizer Participation at Healthcare Conference

  - 2008-03-12

  NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc invites investors and the general public to view and listen to a webcast of a presentation by Martin Mackay, President, Pfizer Global Research & Development, at the Lehman Brothers Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, March 19th at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

  Tags: health care, Pfizer Inc., Webcast