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- FDA Seeks Advice From Blogger; Google Solves Pharma's Ad Problems
- The FDA sought the advice of John Mack, a blogger with 20,000 monthly readers who runs the Pharma Marketing Blog, on how drug companies should use the web to advertise their products. The agency usually likes to hear from lawyers, drug company executives and academics when it seeks regulatory advice....
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Glaxo Gets an FDA Warning... With Teeth
- Well before Vytorin became a cause célèbre -- which is to say, about a year ago -- GlaxoSmithKline was the drugmaker getting slapped around by critics for downplaying or ignoring possible heart problems associated with its diabetes drug Avandia. That case, which led to new warnings on the drug's label...
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- BNET Focus on Antidepressants: Part 2, Controversies
- While the antidepressant market is both robust and lucrative, as we saw in part 1 of this three-part series, it is also controversial. No drug category is so dogged by doubts and questions, and yet so widely prescribed, as antidepressants. The most recent major event in the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- 14 Drug Companies Cited for Misleading Google Ads
- The FDA cited 14 drug companies for misleading advertising in sponsored ads among Google search results. Those cited: Biogen Idec, Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Forest Laboratories, Cephalon, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis , Genentech, Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck, Hoffman-LaRoche, and Eli Lilly. The citations, sent...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- NPR Producer: Goodwin Broke "Ironclad" Contract Over GSK Cash; Pitts Didn't Disclose Ties
- The producer of an NPR radio show has accused the show's host, Fred Goodwin, of breaking his contract by failing to disclose his ties to drug companies. The producer also denies that Peter Pitts, a former FDA official and an executive at Manning, Selvage & Lee, a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- FDA to Allow "Off-Label" Unapproved Drug Promotion
- The FDA has "finalized" guidelines allowing drug companies to promote drugs for unapproved ("off-label") uses. The guidelines will allow companies to distribute peer-reviewed scientific literature discussing off-label uses. Drug companies and their right-wing stalking horse, the Washington Legal Foundation, have been pushing for this move for years....
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- FDA Caves to Pfizer, Industry on Antibiotics Ruling
- The Food and Drug Administration has quietly withdrawn its order banning extralabel use of the antibiotic cephalosporin, so that it can "fully consider the comments" it has received on the issue. When the agency announced the order on July 3, drug companies and agriculture groups were outraged....
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
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- Bristol-Myers Squibb Pleads Guilty to Lying to the Federal Government About Deal Involving Blood-Thinning Drug
- To: AND HEALTH/MEDICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, http:// www.usdoj.gov WASHINGTON, May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewsire/ -- The Department of Justice announced today that Bristol-Myers Squibb Company BMS has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $1 million criminal fine for lying to the federal government about a patent deal involving...
- Research articles 2007-05-30
- Drug Makers Gave Lobbyists an Xmas Gift -- Millions More to Lobby Obama Administration
- A New Year will bring a new president, a new FDA chief, many new drug regulations, and, possibly, health insurance reform. Mindful of the ton of major drug brands that will go off-patent in 2009, drug companies have not rested in their lobbying efforts over generics and patent issues. They...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- Dealing with Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Workplace
- Drug and alcohol abuse is a serious workplace issue. Of the 16.7 million illicit drug users aged 18 or older, 12.4 million (74.3%) were employed either full or part time, according to the U.S. government. More than one in three (38%) workers between the ages of 18 and 25 are...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Report: Company-funded studies of Pfizer epilepsy drug misleading | News from The Post-Standard -
- Report: Company-funded studies of Pfizer epilepsy drug misleading By The Associated Press November 11, 2009, 8:16PM Mark Lennihan / The Associated Press, 2009The Pfizer world headquarters in New York. Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Man Bites Dog: Former Merck CEO Blasts High Drug Prices
- Most pharmaceutical companies insist that high drug prices are a natural consequence of the risky business of drug discovery, and that huge profits on marketed drugs are necessary to cover the costs of the 5,000 to 10,000 experimental drugs that fail for every one that succeeds. In fact, there are...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- FDA Chief Levels Charge against Tobacco Company. (Originated from The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
- WASHINGTON--June 22--Moving closer to federal government control of cigarettes, Food and Drug Administrator David Kessler said Tuesday that a cigarette company secretly developed a tobacco plant in Brazil with double the amount of nicotine found naturaWASHINGTON--June 22--Moving closer to federal government control of cigarettes, Food and...
- Research articles 1994-06-22
- Behind Cephalon's Numbers: a Big Cancer Bet and Signs of Skepticism
- The FDA delivered to Cephalon a letter yesterday saying it would not approve expanded indications for its pain drug Fentora until the company gave it more information on how it would prevent the drug from being abused. Even though the Fentora situation is fixable, it's just the sort of headache...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Hereford, Texas, Company Cited for Selling Cattle with Unsafe Drug Residues.
- By Jim McBride, Amarillo Globe-News, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 24--The federal government is seeking an injunction barring a Hereford cattle company from selling cattle containing illegal and unsafe drug residues. The Justice Department's Office of Consumer Litigation...
- Research articles 2004-04-24
- Union Pacific Sued for Drug Smuggling
- The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Union Pacific Railroad Co. this week, seeking $37 million in damages from the rail company for not stopping drug smuggling on its trains. Between 2001 and 2006, customs officials on at least 38 occasions found marijuana or cocaine in rail cars at the U.S.-Mexico...
- Blog posts 2009-03-22
- Haltom City, Texas-Based Drug-Testing Firm Ends Registration with SEC.
- By Maria M. Perotin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 2--After losing $1.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2003, Haltom City-based PharmChem said it will no longer file financial reports with the federal government. The...
- Research articles 2004-04-02
- Murtha Wove A Web Of Companies And Contracts
- This article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette discussing how Federal grant to upgrade police equipment for Monongahela, PA from Congressman Murtha shows how even little pieces of money add up. It is starting to emerge that a company MountainTop Technologies located in Murtha's hub of Johnstown and started by...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Healthcare Roundup: Wal-Mart Offers Employee PHRs, Health Plan Collapses, and More
- Wal-Mart offers employees personal-health records -- The retail giant said it would offer its employees electronic PHRs based on technology from WebMD and Dossia, an employer coalition. The company will pre-fill those records with prescription-drug and medical-treatment information from pharmacies and health-insurance companies. Of course, there's a catch: The plan...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Healthcare Roundup: No HLTH-WebMD Merger, Higher Medicaid Spending, Mental-Health Parity, and More
- HLTH, WebMD call off merger -- HLTH, a holding company that currently owns 84 percent of the publicly traded WebMD, pulled the plug on a proposed merger with that subsidiary. The companies cited financial-market uncertainty and difficulty finding a buyer for a second HLTH unit, Porex, which makes plastic products...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
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