﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Wyeth news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Wyeth stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/15048/wyeth.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:36 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/66132/pharma-ghostwriters-penned-medical-papers-on-hrt.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Pharma Ghostwriters Penned Medical Papers on HRT</title><description>Ghostwriters funded by a drug firm were deeply involved in writing papers supporting therapies that helped the firm’s sales boom, court papers show. The 26 scientific papers, published in medical journals from 1998 to 2005, highlighted the benefits of hormone replacement therapy over the risks, a boon to Wyeth, which...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/66132/pharma-ghostwriters-penned-medical-papers-on-hrt.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 7:20:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/65131/home-sales-send-dow-over-9000.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Home Sales Send Dow Over 9,000</title><description>The Dow Jones industrials are back above 9,000 today for the first time since the beginning of January. A report of a jump in home sales eased investors' worries about one of the economy's biggest trouble spots. They responded by buying stocks across the market, lifting the major indexes...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/65131/home-sales-send-dow-over-9000.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:22:25 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/52455/shed-still-rather-have-the-arm-but-the-67m-will-help.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>She'd Still Rather Have the Arm, But the $6.7M Will Help</title><description>Millions of dollars and a landmark Supreme Court victory is great—"The fact that the justice system worked, it's pretty impressive"—but it's still no substitute for a right arm, musician Diana Levine tells the AP. Levine, whose arm was amputated in 2000 after she developed gangrene from a Wyeth...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/52455/shed-still-rather-have-the-arm-but-the-67m-will-help.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:21:34 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/52401/justices-reject-limits-on-drug-lawsuits.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Justices Reject Limits on Drug Lawsuits</title><description>In a strong blow to drugmakers, the Supreme Court ruled today in favor of a Vermont woman who lost her arm after taking an anti-nausea drug made by Wyeth, the Wall Street Journal reports. The court upheld the ruling of a Vermont court that awarded guitarist Diana Levine $6.7...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/52401/justices-reject-limits-on-drug-lawsuits.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:59:21 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/49092/pfizer-deals-225b-in-loans-hasnt-unlocked-credit.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Pfizer Deal's $22.5B in Loans Hasn't Unlocked Credit</title><description>Think Pfizer’s $68 billion deal to buy Wyeth, financed in part with $22.5 billion in loans, means credit markets have thawed? Think again, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pfizer’s lenders—including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman, and Citigroup—are charging high interest (7%-9%, with loans due in a year)...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/49092/pfizer-deals-225b-in-loans-hasnt-unlocked-credit.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 9:11:02 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/49004/stocks-shrug-off-job-losses.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Stocks Shrug Off Job Losses</title><description>Pfizer’s massive deal to buy Wyeth helped investors shrug off the bloodbath at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint-Nextel this morning, sending indexes slightly higher at the open. The Dow rose 55 points, while the S&amp;P and Nasdaq rose 11 and 18 points respectively. Caterpillar fell 10% pre-market after announcing an...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/49004/stocks-shrug-off-job-losses.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 8:58:54 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/48986/pfizer-snaps-up-wyeth-for-68b.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Pfizer Snaps Up Wyeth for $68B</title><description>The world’s largest drugmaker, Pfizer, is poised to become even more gargantuan after it agreed early this morning to buy rival Wyeth for $68 billion, reports the Wall Street Journal. In the first major merger to hit Wall Street in months, Pfizer will borrow $22.5 billion from four banks...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/48986/pfizer-snaps-up-wyeth-for-68b.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 6:11:36 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/48752/pfizer-in-talks-to-buy-wyeth.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Pfizer in Talks to Buy Wyeth</title><description>Pfizer is seeking to create a Big Pharma behemoth with the acquisition of rival Wyeth, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The deal, expected to be worth around $60 billion, would make Pfizer—already the world's biggest drug company—big enough to redraw the map of the industry, although sources...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/48752/pfizer-in-talks-to-buy-wyeth.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 5:49:53 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/41656/supremes-wont-air-dirty-laundry.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Supremes Won't Air Dirty Laundry</title><description>Election Day is likely to inspire swearing in some places and sure to see off-color language in one unlikely locale: the Supreme Court. But the American public will have to wait until next summer to hear tomorrow's oral arguments in a landmark indecency case, FCC vs. Fox, the Justices ruled...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/41656/supremes-wont-air-dirty-laundry.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:59:35 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>