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Drug Ads Raise Questions for Heart Pioneer

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Dr. Robert Jarvik is best known for the artificial heart he pioneered more than a quarter-century ag … more →

Tags: Sales, attorney, .:*Conflict*:., doctors, Lawyer, Marketing, Pharmaceuticals

New Marketing Opportunity for Big Pharma

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Our government and big pharma = perfect together. The government has published guidance promoting pa … more →

Tags: Regulation/Government, Sales, Government, Marketing, pharmaceutical company, Promotion

Nurses Are "Soft Targets" For Drug Companies' Promotional Tactics

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Nursing education fails to prepare graduates to deal with the pharmaceutical industry’s promot … more →

Tags: Sales, attorney, Lawyer, nurses, pharmaceutical company, Practice, Promotion, representatives

Federal Grand Jury Probes Merck's Handling of Vioxx1 comment

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Merck & Co. is the subject of a federal grand-jury probe into its sales and marketing practices … more →

Tags: Investigation, News, Prescription Drugs, Sales, Vioxx, attorney, Grand jury, Lawyer, Marketing

Biovail faces U.S. grand jury probe on Cardizem

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Biovail Corp said on Friday it is being investigated by a U.S. federal grand jury in Boston in con … more →

Tags: Cardizem, Investigation, News, Prescription Drugs, Regulation/Government, Sales, biovail, biovail corp, fraud

Doctor Admits of Leaking Safety Information to GSK

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — Citing a bad case of poor judgment, an independent reviewer for th … more →

Tags: Avandia, News, Prescription Drugs, Regulation/Government, AVANDIA, conflict of interest, diabetes, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK

Doctor Accused of Leak to Drug Maker

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: The New York Times is on fire today with great articles about the pharmaceuticals. A leading member … more →

Tags: Avandia, News, Prescription Drugs, Regulation/Government, AVANDIA, conflict of interest, diabetes, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK

Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Regulation/Government, FDA, pharmaceutical company, regulation, tainted drugs, China, abortion pill, paralyzed

Eli Lilly to pay $1 billion to Federal and State Governments1 comment

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Eli Lilly and federal prosecutors are discussing a settlement of a civil and criminal investigation … more →

Tags: Off Label Promotion, Prescription Drugs, Regulation/Government, Sales, Zyprexa, Government, Marketing, pharmaceutical company, regulation

Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study

MarkS wrote 8 months ago: Some of the nation’s most prominent spine surgeons hailed it as a medical breakthrough. In a study … more →

Tags: News, Medical Devices, Regulation/Government, Prodisc, attorney, payoffs, conflict of interest, back pain, spine

D.C. passes drug rep licensing law

MarkS wrote 9 months ago: The District of Columbia Council voted 7-6 to pass a law requiring pharmaceutical company sales repr … more →

Tags: Regulation/Government, Sales, Data Mining, doctors, drugs, Lawyer, pharmaceutical company, pharmaceutical representatives, Prescriptions

A judge has ruled that a Maine law barring prescribing information from being used for marketing is unconstitutional

MarkS wrote 9 months ago: Drug Topics Daily News  A law was supposed to go into effect in Maine on Jan. 1, prohibiting the us … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Sales, drugs, Lawyer, Marketing, Patient Information, Prescription, Private information

Drug Industry Spends Nearly Twice As Much On Marketing Than On Research And Development

MarkS wrote 9 months ago: MedicalNews Today  The pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on the marketing and pro … more →

Tags: Marketing, pharmaceutical company, Promotion, Public Health

UK's Serious Fraud Office seeks Iraq contract documents from GSK and Astra

MarkS wrote 9 months ago: Pharmaceutical Business Review  Stating that they are cooperating fully with the investigating auth … more →

Tags: pharmaceutical companies, fraud, oil for food program, Lawyer

A Little Introspection is Good for the Soul

MarkS wrote 1 year ago: The FDA’s incompetence is outed in a report by the Department of Health and Human Service rele … more →

Tags: Clinical Trials, Healthcare, Regulation/Government

Clinical Trial - A Very Simple Analysis of a Complex Issue

MarkS wrote 1 year ago: The recent death of a patient participating in the Targeted Genetic’s Phase I/II trial of tgAA … more →

Tags: Clinical Trials, Healthcare, Regulation/Government, Liability, Targeted Genetics, IRBs, Litigation

March of the Clones1 comment

MarkS wrote 1 year ago: For those of you who don’t know, when a drug is approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administ … more →

Tags: Actiq, Fentora, Off Label Promotion, Prescription Drugs, Company, Pharmaceuticals


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