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U.S. FDA Approves PADCEV® plus Keytruda® for Certain Patients with Bladder Cancer
22 Nov 2025
PADCEV plus Keytruda is the first and only approved perioperative treatment regimen that can significantly improve survival over current standard of care (surgery alone) in cisplatin-ineligible patien
Pfizer Completes Acquisition of Metsera
14 Nov 2025
Acquisition brings highly differentiated clinical-stage obesity candidates with potential to reshape the treatment landscape Complements and transforms Pfizer’s Internal Medicine portfolio Positions P
Pfizer Responds to Delaware Chancery Court Ruling
08 Nov 2025
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today issued the following statement in response to the Delaware Chancery Court’s decision denying Pfizer’s request for a temporary restraining order to prevent Metsera, Inc. f
Pfizer Files Lawsuit Against Metsera and its Directors and Novo Nordisk for Breach of Merger Agreement
01 Nov 2025
Pfizer Inc. today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Metsera, Inc., its Board of Directors, and Novo Nordisk, S.A. in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The lawsuit asserts claims for breach o
Pfizer Receives Early Clearance from U.S. Federal Trade Commission for Metsera Acquisition
01 Nov 2025
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended
Pfizer Addresses Proposal for Metsera
30 Oct 2025
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) is aware of the reckless and unprecedented proposal by Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) to acquire Metsera, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTSR). It is an attempt by a company with a dominant marke
Pfizer shares new survival data in non-metastatic prostate cancer
22 Oct 2025
The probability of survival at 8 years was an unprecedented 78.9% with XTANDI plus leuprolide versus 69.5% with leuprolide, in men with non-metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer with high-risk
New long-term survival data in advanced lung cancer
22 Oct 2025
BRAFTOVI + MEKTOVI continued to show a substantial median overall survival benefit of 47.6 months in treatment-naïve patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic non-small cell lung cancer after approxi
Unprecedented survival data in muscle-invasive bladder cancer
22 Oct 2025
TOKYO AND NEW YORK, October 18, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced positive results from the pivotal Phas
TUKYSA Combination Significantly Improves Progression-Free Survival as First-Line Maintenance in HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer in HER2CLIMB-05 Trial
14 Oct 2025
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 HER2CLIMB-05 trial of first-line combination therapy with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor TUKYSA ® (tucatinib) in patien
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
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Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
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By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
