- David Mittleman | February 04, 2012 11:20 AM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer recently announced that it had accidentally released packs of birth control pills that were incorrectly packaged, potentially leading to unintended pregnancies for...
- David Mittleman | October 10, 2010 6:23 PM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Being a Lipitor user myself, news of a recall naturally caught my eye and I wanted to pass on the information. Pfizer announced the recall of 191,000 bottles of the cholesterol fighting medication...
- David Mittleman | March 15, 2010 4:32 PM | Lansing, MI
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Workplace Injuries
Becky McClain used to work for Pfizer in a laboratory that conducted genetic research. But now she’s suing the pharmaceutical company, alleging that she suffers suffer from intermittent...
- David Mittleman | March 03, 2010 10:14 AM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
February 22, 2010--a Philadelphia jury ordered Wyeth to pay $9.45 million to a woman who alleged that the company’s hormone-replacement drug, Prempro, caused her breast cancer. The woman,...
- David Mittleman | October 15, 2009 1:18 PM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Henry Greenspan made a brilliant point in a recent op-ed piece in the Detroit Free Press in response to the $2.3 billion in criminal and civil penalties levied against Pfizer for illegally marketing...
- David Mittleman | July 30, 2009 2:31 PM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had just begun trial this Monday, when, in a bizarre twist of events, the family of Susan Bulger dropped their lawsuit. The Bulger family originally filed the lawsuit...
- David Mittleman | April 06, 2009 11:47 AM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
In 1996, during a deadly meningitis epidemic that killed over 10,000 people in Nigeria, Pfizer illegally tested the antibiotic Trovan on children in the state of Kano. Trovan was never approved by...
- David Mittleman | November 24, 2008 10:01 AM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Wyeth and Pfizer, the 2 leading manufactures of hormone drugs, were sued earlier this week by Nevada’s attorney general for alleged deceptive trade practices. The attorney general alleges that...