What we do

Prescription medicine

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.