Pfizer halts late-stage study into new Lyrica use

Pfizer halted a late-stage study of its second-best selling drug, Lyrica, as a possible treatment for a nerve pain in HIV patients.

Some medications that are currently being used to help treat Fibromyalgia are Lyrica, Cymbalta and Savella.

Is LYRICA a cure that is worse than the sickness?

I was in my local Walgreens pharmacy when I heard a voice that I had not heard in roughly 50 years. I was surprised to see this chap in an electric wheelchair with one leg amputated. He told me that he lost his leg from gangrene complications with diabetes.

Why is the FDA more concerned with Pharmaceutical Company Profits than with the Health and Safety of the citizens? No matter. After years of doubt as to its effectiveness (and fibromyalgia's existence), Lyrica has been approved, and fibromyalgia has been more or less legitimized.

For patient advocacy groups and doctors who specialize in fibromyalgia, the Lyrica approval is a milestone. They say they hope Lyrica and two other drugs that may be approved this year will legitimize fibromyalgia, just as Prozac brought depression into the mainstream.

Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors.

Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors.