SPOTLIGHT: Pfizer fires exec who led revolt over marketing practices

Pfizer said it has let go Peter Rost, the marketing executive who led an embarrassing revolt this year over the company's drug marketing and pricing policies. Pfizer made the decision to terminate Rost following a federal judge's decision to unseal a whistle-blower suit in which the executive alleged illegal tactics were used to promote sales of human growth hormone at Pharmacia, which Pfizer bought in 2003. Legal observers say the decision means Rost is likely to lose the case. Article