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Pfizer Consumer Healthcare responds to PHS II findings with statement

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare responds to PHS II findings with statement and Centrum Silver Multivitamin B-roll and photo assets

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ketchum New York

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare is very pleased that study investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, chose Centrum® Silver® for the Physicians' Health Study II. The Centrum® multivitamins' quality, among other factors, led investigators to choose Centrum® Silver® for inclusion in the study. Centrum® Silver® multivitamins currently available in stores have since been updated and improved to reflect advances in nutritional science.

In response to the Physicians' Health Study II findings shared this morning, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, makers of Centrum® Silver® – the product used in the study – has released the following b-roll footage and photographs:

  • Commentary from Pfizer Consumer Healthcare executives:
    • Rowena Pullan – Vice President of Global Franchise R&D – Dietary Supplements and Complementary Categories, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
    • Christopher Kocun, M.D. – Vice President of Global Medical Affairs, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
  • Video Footage of consumers shopping and still photos of Centrum® Silver®

For more information, please contact Bhavana Singh at Bhavana.Singh@Ketchum.com or 646-935-4043.

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To download b-roll, please visit this link www.magicbulletmedia.com/pfizer

To download photos, please visit this link https://share.agencyroad.com/message/E931nU6HZLzhXoGMMuoGGz


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