Posted on 12/03/2006 12:46:25 AM PST by neverdem
Pfizer announced last night that it had discontinued research on its most important experimental drug, a treatment for heart disease. The decision is a stunning development that is likely to seriously damage the company’s prospects through the next decades.
Preliminary research found that the drug, torcetrapib, appeared to be linked with deaths and heart problems in the patients who were taking it.
For people with heart disease, Pfizer’s decision to stop the trial represents the failure of a drug that many cardiologists had viewed as a potentially major advance in efforts to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
Torcetrapib is designed to raise levels of so-called good cholesterol. It was to be used in combination with older drugs called statins, like Lipitor and Zocor, which reduce so-called bad cholesterol.
As recently as Thursday, Pfizer executives had hailed the drug at a meeting with investors and analysts at the company’s research center in Groton, Conn.
“This will be one of the most important compounds of our generation,” said Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive.
Pfizer is the world’s biggest drug company, with 106,000 employees and $51 billion in sales in 2005.
In a news release issued yesterday, the company said that it would immediately halt clinical trials of the drug and end its development.
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They see law suits on the horizon. The same thing went for flu shots. It's all off shored - at least that's what I seem to remember Rush saying a few months ago.
There was a little obscure link on Fox news' website that caught my interest last week, it was for a product called "Cardio Renew", at www.cardiorenew.com.
After doing some research into thier product, as well as asking a few Dr friends about how it, I decided to try the program out. The testimonials on thier website from current users were impressive to the tune of folks who were slated for heart bypass surgery and took this stuff were then no longer needing the operation.
Me being totally aprehensive knowing things that sound to good to be true usually are, started this program and was amazed at the immediate results. After just the first 24 hours chest pains, arm pain,, and all other aches and pains that had been persistent were fading away and mental aquity and energy levels have me feeling better than I've felt in a long long time.
With the results others have had and I'm now experiencing myself it begs the question, how come next to nobody knows about this stuff?
Tell your doc and good luck.
Seems like it would really hurt the company more if the drug were actually released. Seems like a good move to pull the drug before it hits the general public. How is this a bad move? Drugs being developed often fail.
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