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Capturing the Itch: Using Digital Wearable Devices to Help Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

For people who have atopic dermatitis (AD) — an autoimmune condition that causes painful, itchy, and inflamed skin — symptoms often flare up at night, leading to disrupted sleep. Until recently, there hasn’t been a way to truly capture how much a person’s quality of life is impacted by these nighttime symptoms. Patients enrolled in studies are asked to complete sleep journals, but these self-reports are based on recall and are often not fully accurate. To address this issue, Pfizer’s Digital...

Living & Wellbeing

Encouraging those Living with Rheumatic Conditions to "Connect Today" with Their Healthcare Teams

Each year on October 12, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recognizes World Arthritis Day, a global awareness day that aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs). This year’s theme, “Don’t Delay, Connect Today,” recognizes the importance of gaining early diagnosis and access to care. This World Arthritis Day, Pfizer is encouraging those living with a rheumatic disease to speak up and talk with their doctors and healthcare teams if their...

Purpose & Ideals

Reducing Healthcare Disparities in Latino Communities

Health and healthcare disparities remain a major issue across the United States. To help achieve health equity among medically underserved populations, Pfizer’s Multicultural Center of Excellence (MCoE) partners with key multicultural groups across the country. One of our long-standing MCoE partners is Día de la Mujer Latina, a national non-profit organization focused on promoting healthy behaviors within the Latino community by providing a culturally and linguistically proficient education...

Designing Medicines to Go Where They're Needed: Lessons from Liver Targeting

Designing transformational medicines for patients requires them to be efficacious and safe.  Sometimes, drug molecules have the desired effect in the organ of treatment and undesired effects in other organs, meaning one way to achieve a safer medicine is through directing the drug molecule to the place it is needed and minimizing exposure in the rest of the body. When you take a medicine, how does it “know” exactly where to go in the body to provide a therapeutic effect and which organs to avoid...

Real People

Nanotechnology Opens New Frontier in Cancer Treatment

Science fiction is becoming a scientific reality when it comes to potential cancer treatments. Nanotechnology has long been a subject of intrigue in the sci-fi world. Now, Pfizer scientists are investigating a (working on, whatever you like) form of nanotechnology called nanoparticles, and they're using those particles—which are so minuscule that 1 million of them could fit in a single cell—to develop a new method of targeting tumors. With nanoparticles, the goal is to create more precise and...

Purpose & Ideals

The Value of Vaccines in Disease Prevention: A Global Perspective

Vaccinations are an essential tool in our fight against infectious disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccination has greatly reduced the burden of infectious disease globally

Purpose & Ideals

Connecting Patients to the Resources They Need

At Pfizer, we believe that patients should have access to the medicines they need. Which is why, for more than 30 years, Pfizer RxPathways has helped connect patients to a range of assistance programs that offer insurance support, co-pay help,[1] and medication for free or at a savings. Each year, we receive emails, cards, and phone calls from patients and caregivers across the country expressing their appreciation and gratitude for our services and support. Here are excerpts from just a...

Science & Innovation

A Picture of Pain: What Life is Really Like with Chronic Pain

Almost everyone has experienced some type of acute, or temporary, pain in their lives. Acute pain is a protective response to tissue injury that typically resolves with the healing process and lasts less than three months. However, for one in five people around the world, their pain persists for longer than three months and is considered chronic. ,Some people may suffer from diseases or disorders that cause their chronic pain, while others may have an injury or accident that causes long-term or...

Science & Innovation

Collection and Use of Real-World Data Continues to Grow Around the World

Conducting real-world data (RWD) analyses to generate real-world evidence (RWE) is a growing practice in the healthcare community. RWE provides helpful information that complements clinical trial findings and may help fill knowledge gaps related to how a medication is used in real-world medical settings. These data consist of de-identified patient-related data collected from various sources, including but not limited to, anonymized electronic medical records, claims databases, health surveys...

Speeding Up the Drug Approval Process—and What That Means for Patients

Drug development is often a long and risky endeavor often taking 10-15 years of clinical trials. For patients anxiously awaiting the next generation of life-saving and sustaining therapies made possible by exciting advancements in molecular genetics, immunology and rare disease research, that wait is too long. Fortunately, regulatory agencies across the globe are leveraging the latest science to speed up that process for exciting new therapies for areas of unmet medical need. Through innovative...

Living & Wellbeing

Exposing RA Through Photography: The Inspiration

We’re dedicated to sharing the perspectives of people affected by chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). That’s why we created Arthritis.com, a place where people living with RA can find inspiration, lifestyle advice, tools, and disease information. Following is an article from Arthritis.com contributor Angela Lundberg who is living with RA.Photography has been a passion of mine ever since my first photography class. Feeling the weight and heft of a “real” camera in my...

Living & Wellbeing

Explaining Your Rheumatoid Arthritis to Loved Ones

We’re dedicated to sharing the perspectives of people affected by chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). That’s why we created Arthritis.com, a place where people living with RA can find inspiration, lifestyle advice, tools, and disease information. Following is an article from Arthritis.com contributor Mariah Leach who is living with RA.   Being a parent is always a demanding job, but being a parent who lives with arthritis presents some additional challenges. My...