"You make a pill for a nickel and sell it for four dollars, " he says.
It is a pill that might escape the side effects of Fosamax and Actonel.
The competition drives the cost for a pill down an average 25% to 35%.
Such a treatment regimen is more complicated than taking a pill at home once-a-day.
Antiaging medicine promises to explode with the advent of growth hormone in a pill.
Pfizer has begun human testing of a pill that stimulates growth-hormone release in the body.
Is there a pill for this twitch or a salve to slow this reflex?
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That has changed, largely due to a product called Actonel, a pill used to prevent osteoporosis.
But, for too many facilities, it is easier to give a patient a pill.
Wallace had already brought out a pill, Miltown, which worked fairly well to calm the agitated.
"This goes beyond what a pill or a scalpel can do", says Dr Okarma.
And in a pill, if you are not transparent, you will more than likely be outed.
Sequencing genes on your desktop, swallowing a digital camera the size of a pill?
"The problem is not a pill but the way we live our lives, " Aziz says.
Pfizer hasn't revealed its manufacturing cost, but it is probably from 40 to 80 cents a pill.
Pfizer is currently developing a pill, tofacitinib, that will compete with Enbrel in the rheumatoid arthritis market.
Reinforcing that misconception is a notion that there is, or should be, a pill for every ill.
AstraZeneca's scientists had to come up with a pill that could carry the compound safely through the body.
Proving that a pill can extend lives is far trickier than showing it can keep vessels from reclosing.
But one company, the tiny AtheroGenics, has a pill that promises to save lives by reducing the swelling.
America is very much of a pill oriented society with the use of over-the-counter medication on the rise.
Could a pill have helped the workers who narrowly escaped from the World Trade Center forget the horror?
If we had a pill for that, even with no co-pay, the country would save a lot of money.
The most common was a pill called Prempro, made by American Home Products, which is now part of Pfizer.
Long before the Vicuron deal, Zyvox, a pill to treat drug resistant infections, was one of Pfizer's fastest-growing medicines.
Less reliable are observational studies--where data is collected after the fact from people who decided to take a pill.
Part of the excitement about tofacitinib is that it is a pill, not an injection like these other drugs.
In the 1980s he was working at Genentech to devise a pill version of the company's human growth hormone.
He went to the bench grimacing but popped a pill and was back in the game a minute later.
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