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Pfizer’s Chantix helps COPD patients quit smoking

Pfizer has presented data which claims that significantly more smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are treated with Chantix/Champix quit the habit compared with those on placebo.

The study, presented at American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting in San Diego, involved 499 adults suffering from mild-to-moderate COPD, who had smoked an average of 10 cigarettes or more per day in the year before enrollment. The participants, who had smoked for an average of 41 years, had a high level of nicotine dependence.

The primary efficacy endpoint was to compare 12 weeks of treatment with Chantix (varenicline) 1mg twice-daily to More >

Pfizer Profit Rises on Job Cuts, Beats Estimates

By Shannon Pettypiece

Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc. said third-quarter profit rose 26 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, as the world’s biggest drugmaker continued to cut jobs in preparation for its acquisition of Wyeth.

Net income increased to $2.88 billion, or 43 cents a share from $2.28 billion, or 34 cents, a year earlier, the New York- based company said today in a statement. Profit excluding certain items was 51 cents a share, beating by 3 cents the average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Revenue declined 3 percent to $11.6 billion, topping analyst estimates by $200 million. Pfizer completed its $68 More >