Several of Pfizer's medicine are world leaders in their therapeutic class.
Four of the company’s top ten products are world-leading pharmaceuticals discovered by scientists at the Pfizer discovery and development campus. These include medicines for treating high blood pressure and angina, the worlds best selling oral anti-fungal agent, a treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy, and the first oral treatment for erectile dysfunction.
Research has concentrated recently on:
- Diseases of the central nervous system
- Metabolic diseases
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Inflammatory diseases (rheumatoid arthritis and osteo-arthritis)
- Viral diseases (HIV/AIDS)
- Allergies and respiratory diseases
- Sexual health
Research is also undertaken to improve the health of both farm livestock and family pets.
Pfizer prescription-only medicines include anti-infectives treatments for cardiovascular diseases, depression and erectile dysfunction anti inflammatories, anti-epileptics and many others.