Robitussin is a line of cold and cough medicines currently produced by Pfizer.

Dimetapp is a brand of over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines manufactured by Pfizer ( formerly Wyeth ).

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals had been selling the brand name Legatrin for this purpose.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

Pfizer has made numerous acquisitions, including of Warner – Lambert in 2000, Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009, the latter acquired for US $ 68 billion.

In September 2009, Pfizer pleaded guilty to the illegal marketing of the arthritis drug Bextra for uses unapproved by the FDA, and agreed to a $ 2. 3 billion settlement, the largest health care fraud settlement at that time.

Pfizer also paid the U. S. government $ 1. 3 billion in criminal fines related to the " off-label " marketing of Bextra, the largest penalty ever rendered for any crime.

World War I caused a shortage of calcium citrate that Pfizer imported from Italy for the manufacture of citric acid, and the company began a search for an alternative supply.

Following the success of penicillin production in the 1940s, penicillin became very inexpensive and Pfizer made very little profit for its efforts.

As a result, in the late 1940s Pfizer decided to search for new antibiotics with greater profit potential.

Pfizer has hired customs and narcotics experts from all over the globe to track down fakes and assemble evidence that can be used to pursue civil suits for trademark infringement.

The agricultural division was spun off from Pharmacia, as Monsanto, in preparation for the close of the acquisition by Pfizer.

These included sunitinib ( Sutent ), which was approved for human use by the FDA in January 2006, passed $ 1 bn in annual revenues for Pfizer in 2010.

On January 26, 2009, after more than a year of talks between the two companies, Pfizer agreed to buy pharmaceuticals rival Wyeth for a combined US $ 68 billion in cash, shares and loans, including some US $ 22. 5 billion lent by five major Wall Street banks.

The Warner – Lambert and Pharmacia mergers do not appear to have achieved gains for shareholders so it is unclear who will benefit from the Wyeth – Pfizer merger to many critics.

In October 2010, Pfizer agreed to buy King Pharmaceuticals for $ 3. 6 billion in cash or $ 14. 25 per share: an approximately 40 % premium over King ’ s closing share price 11th October 2010.

In April 2011 Pfizer agreed to sell its Capsugel unit, the world's largest maker of hard capsules, for about $ 2. 38 billion to the private equity firm KKR & Co.

On September 4, 2012, the FDA approved a Pfizer pill for a rare type of leukemia.

On June 26, 2006, Pfizer announced that it would sell its Consumer Healthcare unit ( manufacturer of Listerine, Nicorette, Visine, Sudafed and Neosporin ) to Johnson & Johnson for $ 16. 6 billion.

In July 2002, Pharmacia was bought by Pfizer ; control of celecoxib was often mentioned as a key reason for Pfizer's acquisition of Pharmacia.

Pfizer made Morales a spokesperson for Viagra in 2004.

He worked for many years for the large pharmaceutical company Parke Davis, which was later acquired by Pfizer.

During the 1950s and 1960s, North Stonington became a bedroom community for the postwar defense industry and military community of Southeastern Connecticut, including such companies as Electric Boat, Pfizer, and Underwater Sound Laboratory.

In 2004, Pfizer " admitted that Parke-Davis aggressively marketed Neurontin by illicit means for unrelated conditions including bipolar disorder, pain, migraine headaches, and drug and alcohol withdrawal ", and consented to $ 430 million dollars in penalties although it claimed the violations originated in 1996, well before Pfizer's acquisition of Warner-Lambert.

Pfizer has recently grown by mergers, including those with Warner – Lambert ( 2000 ), with Pharmacia ( 2003 ), and with Wyeth ( 2009 ).

In the ensuing years, Pfizer commenced with a massive restructuring resulting in numerous site closures and loss of jobs including: Terre Haute, IN ; Holland, MI ; Groton, CT ; Brooklyn, NY ; Sandwich, UK and Puerto Rico.

However, Sophie is aware that Nathan is self-medicating with drugs, including cocaine and benzadrine, that he supposedly obtains at Pfizer, his employer.

At the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, genomic DNA from many different species of plants is extracted to create a library of the DNA of the world's plants and stored in a DNA storage room with 20 freezers that store millions of specimens, including rare, endangered or extinct species.

Key orphan drug developers including Synageva BioPharma Corp., Swedish Orphan Biovitrum, Shire plc, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Novartis, Genzyme, Lundbeck, Prosensa and BioMarin are leading the way in this growing industry.

On September 2, 2009, the United States Department of Justice fined Pfizer $ 2. 3 billion after one of its subsidiaries, Pharmacia & UpJohn Company, pled guilty to marketing four drugs including Bextra " with the intent to defraud or mislead.

Ringaskiddy is now a major industrial centre-particularly for companies in the pharmachem industry including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Centocor, Novartis and Recordati.

Trout has worked with a number of different client companies, including " AT & T, Apple, Citicorp, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, Southwest Airlines and Xerox ".

Deacon has served on various boards, including the Traverse Theatre, Pfizer UK Foundation, Dewar Arts Awards Trust and is Chair of the Hibernian Community Foundation – the charity set up by Hibernian Football Club.

Pfizer subsidiary Warner-Lambert illegally used scientific activities, including continuing medical education and research, to commercially promote gabapentin, so that within 5 years the drug was being widely used for the off-label treatment of pain and psychiatric conditions-conditions that had not been approved by FDA.

SSRI drugs, which have an important use as antidepressants, are considered to cause physical dependence, although it is considered mild compared to drugs like opioids and GABA modulators, but they engender a discontinuation syndrome, which was originally called " SSRI withdrawal " until a 1997 symposium sponsored by Pfizer and Eli Lilly ( the producers of several anti-depressants including Prozac and Effexor ) was held, with the drug representative attendees concluding that " discontinuation syndrome " sounded less threatening than " withdrawal "; however, " SSRI discontinuation syndrome " is a withdrawal syndrome upon discontinuation of SSRI / SNRI drugs, just as " heroin discontinuation syndrome " is a synonym for " heroin withdrawal ".

A number of new experimental HIV drugs, called CCR5 receptor antagonists, have been designed to interfere with the interaction between CCR5 and HIV, including PRO140 ( Progenics ), Vicriviroc ( Schering Plough ), Aplaviroc ( GW-873140 ) ( GlaxoSmithKline ) and Maraviroc ( UK-427857 ) ( Pfizer ).

George Brecht ( August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008 ), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.

Euro RSCG Worldwide works with 83 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Air France, BNP Paribas, Coca Cola, General Electric, McDonald's, Sony, Walt Disney, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, Groupe Danone, Lacoste, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Jaguar, Kraft Foods, L ' Oréal, New York Stock Exchange, OppenheimerFunds Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi-Aventis, Volvo and Sprint.

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office ( per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews. com ).

The documents disclosed the names of a number of donors to the institute – including the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, tobacco companies Altria and Reynolds American, drug firms GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly, Microsoft, liquor companies, and an anonymous donor who had given $ 13 million over the past five years.

IAVI ’ s donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the Glickenhaus Foundation, the James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust, the Starr Foundation, the William & Mae Salcone Charitable Trust, and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation ; the governments of Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New York City, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Basque Autonomous Government ; multilateral organizations such as the OPEC Fund for International Development and the World Bank ; corporate donors including Advanced Electronic Solutions, BD ( Becton, Dickinson & Co .), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carlsberg Group, Canon Business Solutions, Continental Airlines, the EMMES Corporation, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Google Inc., Institut Merieux, Pfizer Inc, UNIT4 Business Software, White & Case LLP, VWR, Ziff Brothers Investments and Zwiser Leven ; and many individuals from around the world.