The studies show that Zyvox was as well-tolerated and effective as vancomycin, a common hospital antibiotic.
Another is Zyvox, a totally new type of antibiotic for fighting microbes resistant to other medications.
It found that Zyvox cured 58% of them versus 47% for vanocymin, a statistically significant improvement.
First, Pfizer agreed to refrain from promoting Zyvox in a false or misleading manner.
FORBES: Settlement with Oregon Reflects States' Authority Over Prescription Drugs
Third, Pfizer will disclose payments made to authors of Zyvox studies, reports, and clinical guidelines.
FORBES: Settlement with Oregon Reflects States' Authority Over Prescription Drugs
Breaking this depressing trend is Zyvox, an antibiotic made by Pharmacia , which will soon by acquired by Pfizer .
Finally, the company must submit to the ClinicalTrials.gov website all clinical trial results that are Pfizer-sponsored Zyvox trials.
FORBES: Settlement with Oregon Reflects States' Authority Over Prescription Drugs
Long before the Vicuron deal, Zyvox, a pill to treat drug resistant infections, was one of Pfizer's fastest-growing medicines.
In the past six years, there have been two clear examples: Zyvox, from Pfizer, and Cubicin, from Cubist Pharmaceuticals.
The antibiotic Zyvox and the urinary-incontinence drug Detrol, both almost mothballed before he took over Pharmacia, are now bestsellers.
One way to treat hospital patients suspected of having MRSA, he suggests, would be to start them with Zyvox.
Pfizer, which always kept a presence in developing new germ-killing drugs, saw its Zyvox become a fast-growing drug in recent years.
The past 35 years have seen only one new class of bacteria-fighting drugs come to market, and a solo entrant at that--Pfizer's Zyvox.
Zyvox is already approved for this use, and has been shown equivalent to vancomycin in previous studies that looked at all pneumonia cases.
In a study out today at a big infectious disease conference, it compared its best selling antibiotic Zyvox to the older gold-standard drug vancomycin in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia.
If Pfizer and any other state enter into an agreement related to Zyvox promotion, Oregon can add to the agreement any additional terms that Pfizer agrees to with those other states.
FORBES: Settlement with Oregon Reflects States' Authority Over Prescription Drugs
Pediatricians desperately need new, powerful antibiotics such as Zyvox.
Breaking this depressing trend is Zyvox, an antibiotic made by Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ), which will soon by acquired by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Zyvox, a drug sold by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), can be given as a pill, but it has side effects, and some cases of resistance have already cropped up after only five years on the market.
The announcement of the deal may also bode well for an earlier stage collaboration between Vicuron and Pfizer that aimed to create next-generation versions of Pfizer's Zyvox, one of the first new classes of antibiotics to be approved in 30 years--several more have been approved since.
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