Pfizer pleads guilty, but drug sales continue to soar

Uremic Restless Legs Syndrome Pleads "Not Guilty".

there was no significant association between RLS and 3-year mortality, either with age and gender as covariates [6] . In the current issue of the American Journal of Nephrology , an unprecedented 15-year follow-up of RLS survivorship is presented by Baiardi et al. [7] . These investigators demonstrate that RLS-HD patients had a lower mortality rate compared to those HD patients without the synd...

Former FDA commissioner pleads guilty to two charges.

How are stressed prehypertensive rats pressured? Endothelin pleads guilty.

Salt-sensitive hypertension in rodents has been associated now for many years with activation of the endothelin (ET) system. This has been reported in deoxycorticosteronesalt hypertensive rats1 and in genetic forms of hypertension, such as the Dahl salt-sensitive rat.2 However, the involvement of the ET system, as demonstrated by elevation of plasma levels of ET-1, increased tissue concentratio...

Teaching Note - Assigning Regions to Sales Representatives at Pfizer Turkey

Note: The information regarding the pharmaceutical sector and the company are accurate as collected from various cited sources. The problem contains all the characteristics of the underlying problem faced by Pfizer. It has been simplified for the purpose of keeping the model size manageable as a case study and the data has been altered for reasons of confidentiality. The authors created the cas...

Seeking value as cancer drug costs soar.

As significant increases in the costs of cancer drugs cause financial difficulties for many U.S. patients, some oncologists suggest that changes in pricing policies at the federal and state levels are inevitable.