In 1953 Frederik F. Yonkman, a chemist at the Swiss based Ciba pharmaceutical company, first used the term tranquilizer to differentiate reserpine from the older sedatives.

In addition, a 2010 Cochrane Collaboration review of trials of Risperidone, one of the biggest selling antipsychotics and the first of the new generation to become available in generic form, found only marginal benefit compared with placebo and that, despite its widespread use, evidence remains limited, poorly reported and probably biased in favor of risperidone due to pharmaceutical company funding of trials.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

Sertindole was developed by the Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck.

In the US, the government has initiated legal action against the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson for allegedly paying kickbacks to Omnicare to promote its antipsychotic Risperidone ( Risperdal ) in nursing homes.

-the case for, Australian Prescriber 2005 ( note: pharmaceutical company conflict of interest statement at the end )

* AstraZeneca, a UK-based pharmaceutical company

* Chief Medical Officer or CMO – especially in a pharmaceutical company, the person responsible for scientific and medical excellence of the company's research, development and products

* Cortex Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, California specializing in positive allosteric modulators of the AMPA receptor known as Ampakines

In the 1940s and ' 50s the company established its pharmaceutical business and developed a number of key products including

In 1993 the company demerged its pharmaceutical bioscience businesses: pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, specialities, seeds and biological products were all transferred into a new and independent company called Zeneca Group ( which subsequently merged with Astra AB to form AstraZeneca PLC ).

* Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Japanese pharmaceutical company

Farbenkonzern and Farbwerke Hoechst were no longer protected each pharmaceutical company interested in the formula could buy the rights for commercial production of methadone for just one dollar ( MOLL 1990 ).

* OSI Pharmaceuticals, an American pharmaceutical company

* Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company

At the same time, a German pharmaceutical drug company, formulated a similar product as Emmenin that was introduced to German women to treat menopausal symptoms.

* RPG Life Sciences, Indian pharmaceutical company

In 1921, pharmacists and physicians gathered under Steiner's guidance to create a pharmaceutical company called Weleda which now distributes natural medical products worldwide.

The word " tabloid " comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as " Tabloid " pills in the late 1880s.

Those who have funded this endowment include the pharmaceutical industrialist Eli Lilly, the company he founded, and his heirs.

** Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.

* CVS Caremark, a major pharmacy chain & pharmaceutical services company in the United States

John Read, a psychologist, has promoted the idea of socioeconomic status as a significant factor in the development and prevention of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and has noted the reach of pharmaceutical company through industry sponsored websites as promoting a more biological approach to mental disorders, rather than a comprehensive biological, psychological and social model.

* Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company in the US

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, Inc. () is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, and with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States.

The discovery and commercialization of Terramycin ( oxytetracycline ) by Pfizer in 1950 moved the company on the path of change from a manufacturer of fine chemicals to a research-based pharmaceutical company.

In 2007, Pfizer invested $ 8. 1 billion in research and development, the largest R & D investment in the pharmaceutical industry.

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

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer also has operations located there, which in recent years has caused much controversy due to layoffs.

By 2003 atorvastatin became the best-selling pharmaceutical in history, with Pfizer reporting sales of US $ 12. 4 billion in 2008.

He has served on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer.

With the presence of some 20 multinationals such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Montreal ranks eighth in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.

* Warner-Lambert, now merged with Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company

" The 2008 award was instead given to Jeff Kindler, chief executive of pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

Pfizer is one of the world ’ s largest pharmaceutical companies, and the company maintains a research and development facility in Groton.

He then practiced law as a patent attorney for more than a decade, spending the last six years of his legal career at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

Before being elected, he worked in the health care field as a pharmaceutical representative with Pfizer Inc., and as a political assistant to Grant Devine.

There has however been some concern since the economic crisis of the last few years as several of the major pharmaceutical companies in Cork have shed jobs, most notably Pfizer which announced the loss of 177 jobs in June 2012.

Parke-Davis is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

After serving in the Army during World War II, Meltzer was a writer for the CBS radio broadcasting network and later a public relations executive for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

* 11 April – Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company, agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of Fluconazole

In 2010, the family-controlled Dr Reddy's denied that it was in talks to sell its generics business in India to US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which had been suing the company for alleged patent infringement after Dr Reddy's announced that it intended to produce a generic version of Atorvastatin, marketed by Pfizer as Lipitor, an anti-cholesterol medication.

Certain pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer continue to promote drugs like Zoloft with advertisements asserting that mental illness may be due to chemical imbalances in the brain, and that their drugs work to " correct " this imbalance.

Charles Pfizer ( March 22, 1824 in Ludwigsburg as Karl Pfizer – October 19, 1906 ) was a German chemist who immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s and founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co.