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Listening to the Hemophilia Community: Pfizer Survey Reveals Unspoken Compromises
When living with a lifelong condition like hemophilia, decisions about care and treatment are rarely simple. They are shaped by confidence in a treatment’s potential benefits and risks, along with personal experience, familiar routines, and how well it may fit into daily life.Hemophilia is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that affects the body’s ability to form blood clots due to missing or deficient clotting proteins in the blood known as clotting factors. Over the past several decades...
Direct Relief and The Pfizer Foundation Expand Support for Community Health Centers on the Front Lines of Infectious Disease Care
Credit: Direct ReliefThis spring, Direct Relief and The Pfizer Foundation announced the third cohort of the Innovation Awards in Community Health, marking five years of support for community health centers working to strengthen infectious disease prevention, education, screening, testing, treatment, and care in medically underserved communities. Through $4.5 million in grants distributed over two years, the latest program cohort includes 16 U.S. safety-net community health organizations across...
Beyond the Breakthrough: The Manufacturing Work That Gets Medicines and Vaccines to Patients
Scientific discoveries form the basis of every medical breakthrough. But transforming those discoveries into medicines that reach patients requires another kind of innovation: manufacturing.Behind every dose, a complex global network of manufacturing sites, supply chain experts, quality teams, and logistics specialists work together to produce medicines consistently, reliably, and at the scale patients need. These efforts often happen behind the scenes, but they play a critical role in expanding...
Self -Care for Caregivers
Caregivers play remarkable and invaluable roles in our communities. They support children, parents, grandparents, spouses, neighbors, and friends. They do everything from preparing meals to managing finances to helping with dressing and bathing.1This is generous, loving work, but it can also be taxing on the body and mind. Nearly half of caregivers experience moderate or high physical strain, and about 65% say they experience moderate or high emotional stress.2 This can take a toll on health...
3 Tips to Increase Health Literacy
At Pfizer, when we talk about making breakthroughs that change patients lives, we aren’t just talking about medicines and treatments. We’re also working to help patients understand the care they receive through guides and resources. We believe it’s crucial for you to have the information you need to make the health decisions that are right for you.With each new life chapter we enter and each new diagnosis we receive, we’re introduced to new medical terminology, new guidance, new questions...
Health Answers by Pfizer Launches Spanish-Language Expansion
Back in February, we launched Health Answers by Pfizer, a consumer digital experience powered by generative AI that provides clear, relevant answers to health & wellness questions, and helps consumers take action for themselves and their loved ones.Today, we’re proud to announce a major step forward: Health Answers by Pfizer is now available in Spanish. With this new release, Spanish-speaking consumers across the U.S. can access trusted, personalized health information in the language they know...
The Mindfulness of Medicine Development: Advancing Treatments Can Transform Patient Outcomes
At Pfizer, we know that breakthroughs aren’t created in a vacuum. Every new discovery, every new medicine and vaccine, is the result of the collaboration of many members of our community, each with their own unique experiences, expertise, and insights. The human element cannot be separated from our work any more than the patient experience can be removed from the outcome.“The Mindfulness of Medicine Development” series showcases the journeys, experiences, and inspirations of our colleagues...
Powered by Purpose: Celebrating Clinical Trials Day 2025
Pfizer has been in the business of breakthroughs for nearly two centuries, and while our success represents the shared work of thousands of our dedicated employees, none of the advancements for which we are known were made possible through our efforts alone. The modern prescription medicines and vaccines we have today were studied in hundreds, and often thousands, of people in clinical trials.A clinical trial is a research study that seeks to understand how potential medicines, vaccines, and...
The Mindfulness of Medicine Development: How Scientists Are Driving the Next Wave of Medical Innovations
For millions of patients around the world, the development of a new treatment or vaccine can be life-changing. But the journey from promising drug candidate to approved product isn’t easy. It's a long and arduous process, with an average timeline lasting more than 10 years.Behind the scenes of these life-changing medical breakthroughs are the scientists whose dedication, expertise, and remarkable problem-solving skills are driving progress forward. Though their training could have prepared them...
Health Answers by Pfizer Wins Webby’s People’s Voice Award
Earlier this year, we proudly launched Health Answers by Pfizer, a consumer digital experience powered by generative AI that allows you to ask your biggest and smallest health and wellness questions – anytime, anywhere – and receive real-time, relevant responses.Today, we’re excited to share the news that Health Answers by Pfizer took home the People's Voice Award in the Health & Wellness AI, Immersive & Games category at the 2025 Webby Awards.Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New...
The Future of IBD Care: Pfizer Leads a New Era of Noninvasive Monitoring
At Pfizer, we are committed to improving care and addressing inequities for patients living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. And, for people living with IBD, regular monitoring of the bowel is important for tracking the disease activity and severity and adjusting treatments and care as needed.1 A colonoscopy—a procedure where doctors use a flexible camera to look inside a patient’s colon—has long been the most common method of...
Watch Pfizer’s SXSW Live Podcast Panels
Last month, Pfizer attended the South by Southwest festival in Austin, where we took over the podcast lounge for the second year in a row.Throughout the day, we presented three live podcast episodes in front of a packed SXSW audience, with each episode tackling a different topic that’s at the forefront of healthcare in 2025. Today we are happy to share video of those sessions.For more from Pfizer’s award-winning Science Will Win podcast series, check out the latest season here: https://link...
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