Pharma Co. to pay more than $24 million for kickback, conspiracy charges
Biovail Pharmaceuticals, LLC, has pled guilty to conspiracy and kickback charges and has been sentenced to pay a criminal fine of more than $22 million.…
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Grassley Probes into Ghostwriting Practices that May Result in Pharmaceutical Fraud
United States Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa has asked eight leading medical journals to describe their ghostwriting policies and practices. The inquiry is part…
Read More »Major Medical Journal No Longer to Silence Whistleblowers
A recent move by a major medical journal could provide more timely disclosure of alleged undisclosed conflicts of interests between researchers and pharmaceutical companies. The…
Read More »Wyeth under Fire for Alleged Medicaid Fraud
The U.S. government and 16 states have joined in two whistleblower suits against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth. The drug company allegedly failed to pay hundreds of…
Read More »Schering- Plough Pays $31 Million to Resolve Pharmaceutical Fraud Allegations
The State of Missouri filed a lawsuit against Schering-Plough in May 2005 and alleged in its complaint that the company did not accurately report drug…
Read More »Big Pharma Pays $13.6 million for Price Inflation
U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris has ordered drug companies AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squib to pay a total of $13.6 million in a Masachusetts case…
Read More »Eli Lilly and Company in More Hot Water
Montana is the latest state to sue Eli Lilly and Company, alleging that the company improperly and fraudulently marketed Zyprexa, an antipsychotic drug for unapproved…
Read More »Congress now has the power to shake up the FDA
With the new Democratic-controlled Congress, how the FDA accomplishes enforcement will likely change, which may in turn effect the level of resources devoted to the…
Read More »Pharma Has Its Nose In Clinical Trials
A survey published in the New York Journal of Medicine found that more than a third of experts who oversee clinical trials at both medical…
Read More »$30 Million Off-Label Case
The State of Mississipi has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly (see www.lilly.com) alleging the pharmaceutical compay illegally marketed Zyprexa (an…
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