AP - Two men who believe they suffered lasting muscle damage from taking the popular anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor are suing medication's maker, Pfizer Inc., claiming the company didn't issue loud enough warnings about potential side effects.

AFP - A Chinese court has upheld US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's patent for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, overturning a previous ruling.

Reuters - A kidney cancer drug made by Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. showed promise in a small lung cancer trial, according to data released on Sunday, further fueling competition with a drug from Pfizer Inc.

Reuters - Switching to Pfizer Inc.'s drug Aromasin after a few years on another breast cancer treatment cut some women's risk of dying from the disease by 17 percent in a study released on Saturday.

Reuters - Pfizer Inc.'s kidney cancer drug Sutent will soon become the favored first-line treatment for advanced forms of the disease, based on its ability to prolong survival in a late-stage trial described on Sunday, researchers said.

Reuters - Switching to Pfizer Inc.'s drug Aromasin after a few years on another breast cancer treatment cut some women's risk of dying from the disease by 17 percent in a study released on Saturday.

Reuters - A Pfizer Inc. kidney cancer drug has also shown promise in a small mid-stage trial as a treatment for the most common form of lung cancer, researchers said on Saturday.

Reuters - U.S. stock futures ticked up on Friday with investors awaiting non-farm payrolls numbers while merger and acquisition news around New York Stock Exchange Group and Pfizer was also in focus.

Reuters - GlaxoSmithKline Plc is to bid more than $15 billion for the consumer healthcare business of U.S. rival Pfizer Inc , people familiar with the situation said on Friday.

The world's leading drug making, Pfizer, has announced new plans to cut costs in Japan by 12 percent this year. The pharmaceutical corporation added its current plans don't include job cuts at this time. Hiromitsu Iwasaki who leads the company's...

Reuters - Pfizer Inc said on Monday it expects to trim its expenses in Japan without shedding jobs by 12 percent this year, two years ahead of the U.S. company's global target.

AFP - Vietnam has legalized the sale of Viagra years after smuggled and copied versions of the anti-impotency drug first hit the black market, a health ministry official said.

Following a process that commenced in the summer 2004, the American group Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical group, has sold Farmea and Valdepharm to the Fareva group.

AP - A tablet shown to help more than one in five smokers quit joined the limited number of effective stop-smoking drugs on Thursday, approved by federal regulators.

- A Pfizer anti-smoking pill shown to help over one in five quit after a year's use was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. Varenicline, which Phizer Inc. plans to market as Chantix, is the second nicotine-free...

AP - A Pfizer drug shown to help more than one in five smokers quit after a year's use received federal approval on Thursday, adding another option to the limited pool of effective stop-smoking prescription medicines.

Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it approved Pfizer's Chantix tablet to help cigarette smokers stop smoking.

Reuters - Pfizer Inc. , the world's largest drugmaker, on Wednesday said its first-quarter earnings rose, helped by lower costs, favorable taxes and the absence of big charges recorded last year for the repatriation of overseas profits.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to decide after a long delay whether Novartis AG can market a version of human growth hormone similar to one already sold by Pfizer Inc. The Wall Street Journal said on...

Reuters - Germany's Schwarz Pharma could get over $200 million and royalties from a licensing deal with Pfizer over an incontinence drug, Schwarz said on Thursday, sending its shares 13 percent higher.