Pfizer pflu?
Executive Summary
Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnell will reschedule his Feb. 4 speech at the National Press Club after coming down with the flu. McKinnell was slated to speak on health care reform, but was likely to have also addressed - either through prepared remarks or during the question and answer session - the cardiovascular safety questions surrounding Pfizer's COX-2 inhibitors Celebrex and Bextra (1"The Pink Sheet" Jan. 3, 2005, p. 17). Pfizer says McKinnell caught the flu while traveling through southern Asia to assess the company's tsunami relief effort...
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