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Diabetes Breakthroughs Focus on Making Daily Life Easier
New research and emerging innovations are constantly evolving when it comes to helping patients manage, and maybe even prevent, Type 2 diabetes. The days of tender fingertips and painful injections may not be over, but alternatives are becoming more and more commonplace. Diabetes affects over 37 million people in the United States, slightly more than 11% of the population.1 Type 2 diabetes accounts for more than 95% of all diabetes.2 Game-changing breakthroughs, such as continuous glucose...
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How to Manage High Blood Pressure (With the Help of a Few Giraffes)
People have long adored giraffes for their friendly faces, their tall and somewhat strange stature and, of course, those impossibly long necks. Now, researchers believe that giraffes may also offer physiological insights into certain health conditions. With a neck that can be longer than six feet, giraffes seemingly should struggle with the consequences of high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, because of their blood's substantial uphill climb from the heart to the brain. But they...
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Investigating the Next Wave of Innovation to Help People with Hemophilia
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New Discoveries in Metastatic Breast Cancer Can’t Wait: How Independent Scientific Research is Moving Forward Patient Care
Until the 20th century, breast cancer was considered an unspeakable condition, and in general, cancer was seen as an incurable disease.1 Thanks to increases in funding, research, and patient advocacy, there is greater awareness of and care for people living with breast cancer.2 But, for people with the most advanced forms of breast cancer, there still remain significant gaps in funding, research, and care. The Current State of Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Every year, millions of people...
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Other Diseases Deserve the Same Acceleration as COVID-19
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Vaccine Production: Find Out How Vaccines Are Created
Vaccines have revolutionized our ability to improve health and save lives, resulting in the control, elimination, or near-elimination of many life-threatening diseases. The path to disease prevention – the development of a novel vaccine – is a complex and lengthy process that generally takes 10 to 15 years.1 Every step of the way, our team is committed to pursuing research and forming partnerships that facilitate the rapid development and delivery of a vaccine. To help protect against the COVID...
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Prevention is the Best Medicine
It wasn’t that long ago that a diagnosis of polio was considered a death sentence. Thanks to the work of pioneering researchers, polio and other diseases like diphtheria, measles, mumps, and rubella are now preventable through vaccinations. Bill Gruber works for a global team at Pfizer charged with vaccine clinical research and development. His passion for his work came when he lost a young patient to meningitis. “There has got to be a better way,” he thought. Now, he’s a part of a team that...
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Behind the Breakthroughs: The Scientists Behind Pfizer’s Cancer Research
Have you ever wondered what makes a cancer researcher tick, or how the pursuit of life-changing treatments became their life’s work? How about what keeps them up at night, and what goes through their mind when an experiment fails? And what about the things that inspire and motivate them every day in the lab? Click on the videos below to find out, and to get to know the talented scientists at Pfizer who are working to deliver the next wave of cancer breakthroughs. Meet Our Scientists
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Attacking Cancer Cells That Develop Resistance
By Get Science Staff - This article originally published on Get Science When cancer patients receive therapy for an extended time, they often face the specter of drug resistance as tumor cells mutate and find ways to evade the cancer-killing medicines. Exploring new ways to disarm rogue cells that have developed resistance is a major field of modern cancer research. One way to address the issue of resistance is to attack cancer through the fundamental processes that drive their core mission —...
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Through Data, Digital Medicine Paints a More Complete Patient Picture
Wearable devices have become a common way for people to count their steps, monitor their heart rate, track their sleep and collect other health data. These kinds of devices are becoming increasingly important in the realm of “digital medicine” as well. At the Pfizer Innovation Research, or PfIRe Lab, wearable devices are adding a new dimension to clinical trials, helping scientists monitor symptoms, assess health and better understand how treatments work. Digital medicine may be able to...
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Immune System
The immune system consists of dozens of different cell types that are designed to protect and defend against infection. But sometimes, immune cells can respond in a way that can actually cause disease—for example, when certain cell types either over- or underact. In the field of immunology, scientists are studying how to disrupt or manage these different immune responses to improve health. In cancer, for example, the immune system is turned off or muted, while in inflammatory disorders, the...
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The Process of Naming Pharmaceutical Drugs
Micronase. Daypro. Tessalon. Each of those names began on a list of hundreds of options, and the process to approve that name may have begun years prior to even the drug’s approval.The first part of this two-part series on how drugs are named explored the process for coming up with the generic name for a medication. This article explores how drugs get their brand name.Coming up with a safe brand nameUnlike generic names, brand names aren’t tied to particular suffixes, and that allows for more...
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