...clear how many might be taking it in hopes of improving athletic performance. Viagra, also known as sildenafil, is manufactured by Pfizer Inc. It originally was developed as a heart drug. Its use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction was accidentally discovered. The...

...Makers include GlaxoSmithKline , which helped pay for the Lancet study, Gilead Sciences Inc , Roche , Pfizer , Merck Inc , Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories . HIV is passed through sex, blood,...

...price risk given the valuation and rate the shares a Hold with a $21 price target. Given our current forecast, we expect Pfizer will only be able to manage 2% earnings growth through 2012. This is paltry, at best, especially given other names in the large-cap...

...industry. In the mid-1800s, the area was a manufacturing and financial hot spot. Big name companies like Corning, Domino Sugar, Pfizer and Standard Oil all got their starts in Williamsburg. And when the Williamsburg Bridge opened in 1903, phasing out ferry...

...of its active ingredients and drugmaking is outsourced. Brown requested Pfizer report to the Senate HELP Committee how much Pfizer saves each year from outsourcing as well as on the frequency and nature of its outsourcing to countries with less stringent drug...

...is being moved out of the plants there to India, he said. Piramal Healthcare, or the erstwhile Nicholas Piramal, had acquired Pfizer’s Morepeth facilty in the UK in Morpeth drug unit in 2006 and Avecia’s unit in 2005. Piramal Healthcare shares were marginally...

...substance. The location of the plant is yet to be decided. Piramal Healthcare’s estimated Rs 110-crore cough-syrup Phensedyl and Pfizer’s Corex have in the past been hit by codeine shortages. But supply issues have since been resolved, with the product being...

...fraudulent conduct by Ranbaxy as it has submitted false and fabricated information to FDA. Ranbaxy has recently settled cases with Pfizer and AstraZenec for its blockbuster drugs Lipitor and Nexium. The company’s stock has lost nearly 20% in value over the...

...(revenue) private company in Boulder, Colo., is focused on the pharmaceutical industry, where fakes are rampant and dangerous. Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) estimates that it lost $2 billion of sales last year to vendors of fake Viagra. This...

...Development, Campbell Alliance, joined by Dr. Ellen Strahlman, Vice President, Licensing, Worldwide Business Development, Pfizer; Dr. Manuel Litchman, Vice President and Head, Oncology Business Development and Licensing, Novartis; and Steven Xanthoudakis,...