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Study links Pfizer smoking drug to side effects

                   
reuters.co.uk
21-May-2008
        
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data on Pfizer Inc's Chantix drug to help stop smoking raises new concerns about serious side effects, especially for drivers, pilots and others operating heavy machinery, researchers said on Wednesday. The drug, also known as varenicline, has already been linked to... [read full story]                    

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FAA Prohibits Pilots From Flying While Taking Chantix

 calpilots.org 24-May-2008
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Pfizer's Chantix banned for pilots, air traffic controllers following report on side effects

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FAA Prohibits Pilots From Flying While Taking Chantix

calpilots.org
24-May-2008
        

Posted on Friday, May 23 @ 08:07:17 PDT by editor Pilots and air traffic controllers who are taking Chantix to stop smoking must discontinue using the medication in order to continue flying or controlling air traffic. The FAA on May 21 announced the withdrawal of Chantix from its allowed...

                   

FAA Bans Chantix: Will Pfizer Be Smoked Out of the Stop-Smoking Market?

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

by: Mike Huckman posted on: May 23, 2008 | about stocks: PFE It just keeps getting worse. The critical mass has prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ban pilots and air traffic controllers from taking Chantix. Last night, a non-profit watchdog group, the Institute for Safe Medication...

Glaxo Leaps Into Chantix Smackdown

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

Pfizer’s smoking-cessation drug Chantix has taken a few licks this week, with federal regulators limiting the drug’s use by pilots and air-traffic controllers. Just in time for the holiday weekend, GlaxoSmithKline has jumped into the fray, offering its own smoking cessation product — free of...

                   
pharmiweb.co.uk: FAA Bans Pfizer’s Chantix For Pilots, Air Controllers pharmiweb.co.uk

FAA Bans Pfizer's Chantix For Pilots, Air Controllers

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

by Abhishek Garg - May 23, 2008 - 0 comments The Federal Aviation Administration has banned the pilots and air traffic controllers from using anti-smoking drug Chantix. This step has been taken after a study found that, the drug increased the risk of serious psychiatric problems in addition to...

More doubts about Pfizer's Chantix

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- In an unusual move, the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday banned the use of the Pfizer smoking-cessation product Chantix by airline pilots and air-traffic controllers, citing concerns that the drug could contribute to accidents. Late Wednesday, the FAA sent a...

                   

Glaxo Is Jumping on Pfizer's Chantix Anti-Smoking Ban

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

Submitted by admin_huliq on Fri, 2008-05-23 16:40. 52 reads GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare is Offering free Nicotine Lozenges to all licensed pilots after FAA banned Chantix anti-smoking drug usage due to side effects. This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it removed...

More Trouble for Pfizer's Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

First pilots, now truckers. The feds said yesterday that people shouldn’t be qualified for trucking licenses while they’re taking Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug Chantix, the WSJ reports. The warning came from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which oversees the interstate trucking...

                   

U.S. bans Pfizer drug from cockpits Smoking cessation pill has side effects linked to suicides

pharmiweb.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

International Herald Tribune - May. 23, 2008 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is no longer permitting pilots or air traffic controllers to use the smoking cessation drug Chantix, citing potential side effects that could pose a threat to the safe operation of aircraft. Another U.S. agency,...

                   

Chantix Safety Worries Add to Pfizer's Pain

pharmiweb.co.uk
22-May-2008
        

Chantix Safety Worries Add to Pfizer's Pain |Published: May 22, 2008 5:25 PM Find this story interesting? Buzz it up on Yahoo! By Thomas Gryta Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- New safety concerns for Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE) smoking-cessation drug could hurt the already stumbling sales...

                   

Pfizer's anti-smoking drug could see sales decline? ? 1 hr ago

pharmiweb.co.uk
22-May-2008
        

NEW YORK - A new report on potentially dangerous side effects for Pfizer Inc.'s anti-smoking drug Chantix could prompt a sales decline, according to Goldman Sachs analyst James Kelly. In a note to investors Thursday, he lowered his sales outlook for Chantix and earnings-per-share forecasts and...

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