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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b news E-Mail this DGNews to a colleague DGNews Pfizer's Lyrica (Pregabalin) Approved for Treatment of Generalized ba href=/anxiety/a/b Disorder (GAD) in Europe NEW YORK, N.Y.

- March 27, 2006 - Pfizer Inc.

said today that the European Commission has approved Lyrica(R) (pregabalin) for the treatment of generalized ba href=/anxiety/a/b disorder (GAD) in adults.

In the European Union, it is estimated that nearly 12 million patients suffer from GAD on a yearly basis yet only one-third of these patients are properly diagnosed and even fewer received effective treatment.

Lyrica's approval was based on five randomized double-blind clinical trials involving over 2,000 patients.

Data from a combination of five placebo-controlled studies demonstrate that Lyrica provides rapid and sustained efficacy for the treatment of GAD.

As early as the first week of treatment, Lyrica was shown to be significantly effective in providing relief of both emotional symptoms, such as depressive symptoms and panic, as well as physical symptoms, including headaches and muscle aches.

"GAD is much more than the normal ba href=/anxiety/a/b people experience under times of stress.

It is a chronic, debilitating illness that can greatly disrupt an individual's daily life, yet the disorder is under-treated," said Dr.

Stuart Montgomery, Professor of Psychiatry, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London.

"Now that Lyrica is available, we have a new treatment option to help alleviate a broad range of emotional and physical sy...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b about the next hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, were expected to limit the price decline.

Some analysts believe gasoline prices could climb as high as $3 a gallon this summer, though that assumes some significant disruptions at refineries, or difficulty in getting fuel to markets.

On Monday, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages - two Americans and one Briton - more than five weeks after the oil-industry workers were kidnapped.

The militants took nine foreign oil workers hostage Feb.

18 from a barge owned by Houston-based oil services company Willbros Group Inc., which was laying pipeline in the delta for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

The group released six of the captives after 12 days in captivity.

The militants are behind a spate of attacks that have cut Nigeria's oil exports by more than 20 percent.

On Saturday, they said they killed three soldiers in fresh clashes near a key natural gas plant run by Shell.

Shell said there was no impact on the gas plant.

Iran, the No.

2 oil producer in OPEC, also remains a potential source of concern.

It has been referred to the U.N.

Security Council over fears it may want to misuse its nuclear program to make weapons, but the council has been at loggerheads over U.S.-led efforts to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran.

In other Nymex trading, natural gas futures fell 24 cents to $7.05 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Heating oil futures inched up less than a penny to $1.796 a gallon.

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b about the next hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, were expected to limit the price decline.

Some analysts believe gasoline prices could climb as high as $3 a gallon this summer, though that assumes some significant disruptions at refineries, or difficulty in getting fuel to markets.

On Monday, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages - two Americans and one Briton - more than five weeks after the oil-industry workers were kidnapped.

The militants took nine foreign oil workers hostage Feb.

18 from a barge owned by Houston-based oil services company Willbros Group Inc., which was laying pipeline in the delta for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

The group released six of the captives after 12 days in captivity.

The militants are behind a spate of attacks that have cut Nigeria's oil exports by more than 20 percent.

On Saturday, they said they killed three soldiers in fresh clashes near a key natural gas plant run by Shell.

Shell said there was no impact on the gas plant.

Iran, the No.

2 oil producer in OPEC, also remains a potential source of concern.

It has been referred to the U.N.

Security Council over fears it may want to misuse its nuclear program to make weapons, but the council has been at loggerheads over U.S.-led efforts to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran.

In other Nymex trading, natural gas futures fell 24 cents to $7.05 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Heating oil futures inched up less than a penny to $1.796 a gallon.

Ass...