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Pfizer: Time To Face The Lyrica Pain

 
• By Jessica Merrill

Pfizer forecast flat US drug prices in 2019 and downplayed large M&A as a way to assuage near-term growth concerns, while investors brace for a challenging period cycling through the loss of Lyrica.

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Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Bourla led his first earnings call as the company's chief executive Jan. 29 and stuck to a similar message the company has laid out to investors for close to a year: that Pfizer will be well positioned for growth after cycling through the loss of Lyrica to generics beginning June 30, 2019.

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