Topic: Pfizer Inc.

There are a number of college scholarships available from pharmaceutical companies. The Pfizer Epilepsy Scholarship Through the Pfizer Epilepsy Scholarship program, pharmaceutical company Pfizer provides college scholarship money to students who have struggled with epilepsy. Interested students should visit the Pfizer Epilepsy ...

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Pending revision, the material in this section should be considered in light of more recently available information in the MEDWATCH notification at the beginning of this monograph.. Management (in combination with other anticonvulsants) of partial seizures with or without secondary generalization in ...
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed.According to the report, when a company-funded study's ...

FDA Mulls Suicide Warning for Epilepsy Drugs

Drugmakers and the FDA are talking about whether epilepsy drugs increase the risk of suicidal behavior, the WSJ reports.. According to agency data on 11 epilepsy drugs on the market, 0.37% of patients who took one of the drugs in clinical trials ...
Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, is trying to persuade government regulators not to add stern warnings about suicide risks to its best-selling epilepsy drug.The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that all drugs used to treat seizures should be required ...

Pfizer Wins Appeal in Neurontin Case

Last Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed (pdf) a 2005 district court ruling granting summary judgment of non-infringement to several generic drug companies who sought to market generic versions of Pfizer's (PFE) epilepsy drug Neurontin (gabapentin). The district ...