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A history of Pfizer

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It was at this time they set their site at Sandwich in the UK, initially just to finish processing compounds imported from America, but due to tariffs on imported products the company rapidly expanded the plant to accommodate producing medicines from scratch. Likewise, tanezumab, an anti-osteoarthritic, failed in trials.

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Nine for 2023, part two: healthcare’s hard problem, the prognosis for diagnosis, and key new pharmacotherapy platforms

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Across swathes of primary care, pharmacological innovation has stalled; the last new antihypertensive class was introduced in 2007 and new antibiotics have trickled in at a dangerously slow pace. The fundamental engine of innovation for the global pharmaceutical industry continues.

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Beating the Big C

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The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. Demand for treatment The American Cancer Society estimates that over 12 million new cancer cases were diagnosed worldwide in 2007.