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			<title>The health race</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will Dubai's medical tourism sector ever match the more established markets of Singapore and India?  ]]></description>
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			<title>New call to curb increase in smoking in the UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[42% of 17-year-olds are smokers in the country, according to latest figures.]]></description>
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			<title>A lack of chemistry</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joanne Bladd reports on the measures the United Arab Emirates is taking to crack down on medication fraud.]]></description>
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			<title>End of an era</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The GCC's oil-rich states have largely resisted the coup seen in US and European pharmacies.]]></description>
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			<title>Dentists urged to help region’s smokers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Middle East's dentists are failing to take a proactive role in encouraging their patients to quit smoking, as the number of smokers continues to rise across the region.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Pharmyard revolution</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Pfizer's Dr Ahmed Al Hakim talks about how the region's pharmaceutical industry is coming into its own.]]></description>
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			<title>Flaw in the ointment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The illegal trade in counterfeit medications and the impact it is having on the industry and the people taking it.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Firms call for crackdown on fake drugs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical firms demand tighter regulations on medicines imported into Dubai after fake drugs seizure.]]></description>
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			<title>Generic drug prices to stay high</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pfizer admits it could take 10 years before cost of generic drugs in region is as low as other parts of world.  ]]></description>
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			<title>A healthy return</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Andrew White learns how pharmaceutical giant Pfizer plans to make a difference to patients across the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>In sickness &amp;amp; in health</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Drug advertising is a way of selling sickness, claims Barbara Mintzes. So what regulatory role should governments play in policing promotion?  ]]></description>
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			<title>Illegal Viagra poses 'major health hazard'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Harmful counterfeit tablets of the anti-impotence drug are being sold by registered UAE pharmacies, warns Pfizer. ]]></description>
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			<title>Lyrica study results show promise</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Significantly more Fibromyalgia patients treated with Pfizer's Lyrica reduced their pain by 50% or more compared with placebo, according to study results presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.]]></description>
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			<title>Viagra could pep-up hardened travellers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The little blue tablet used by millions of aging lovers could also help jetlagged executives.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Lipitor receives FDA approval for new indications</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Pfizer has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets to reduce the risk of nonfatal heart attacks, fatal and non-fatal strokes, certain types of heart surgery, hospitalisation for heart failure, and chest pain in patients with heart disease.]]></description>
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			<title>Prizer drug on fast track</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Marketing authorisation applications for Pfizer's maraviroc will receive accelerated review in both the US and Europe.]]></description>
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			<title>Exubera boom or bust for Pfizer</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With UAE regulatory approval in the bag, Medical Times asks: Can Pfizer's US $2 billion diabetes blockbuster live up to the hype?  ]]></description>
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			<title>Pfizer sells consumer business to Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pfizer Inc said today that it has completed the sale of its Pfizer Consumer Healthcare business to Johnson & Johnson for $16.6 billion ($13.5 billion in after-tax proceeds).]]></description>
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			<title>JRA indication approved for Celebrex</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pfizer's blockbuster Celebrex (celecoxib) has won FDA approval for pain relief in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, despite uncertainty about the drug's safety profile in long-term use.]]></description>
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