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AstraZeneca criticised for 'Golden Hello' compensation agreement -...

Pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, have come under fire after paying its new chief executive £6.5m for three months work last year. The Local Authority Pension fund Forum (LAPFF), one of Britain’s...

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AbbVie to hack hundreds of reps from cardiovascular sales ranks - FiercePharma

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Glaxo accused of pay delay -- Yorkshire Post

via yorkshirepost.co.uk Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline was today accused by the competition watchdog of paying off firms to delay the launch of cheap versions of its antidepressant treatment in a move...

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Jury awards $63M to Samantha Reckis, girl who lost skin after taking Motrin -...

via cbsnews.com BOSTONA jury has awarded a Massachusetts teenager and her parents $63 million nearly a decade after she suffered a life-threatening drug reaction that caused her to lose most of her...

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Clinical trials of drugs in India plummet - The New Indian Express

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Catch-22, Clinical Trial Edition: The Double Bind for Women and Children |...

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Novartis changes CFOs, reveals cuts to work force and chairman pay -...

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AstraZeneca UK plant under US investigation

via cheshire-today.co.uk Macclesfield’s AstraZeneca plant is being investigated by US authorities, it emerged today. The pharmaceutical giant issued a terse statement alongside its first quarter...

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Trying to Burnish Its Image, Johnson & - Johnson Turns to Emotions

The company’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit recalled more than 280 million packages of over the counter medications like Motrin, children’s Tylenol liquid and Benadryl in 2010, and the same year,...

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Docs call drugmakers 'profiteers' for costs of cancer meds - FiercePharma

via fiercepharma.com The doctors called out as an example, Novartis' ($NVS) Gleevec, a treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia. They pointed out that it came on the market at a cost of $30,000 a year...

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How academic medicine's Gold Standard has lead to disease mongering

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U.S. files second lawsuit accusing Novartis of kickbacks

via dailypress.com The government accused Novartis of causing the Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay millions of dollars in reimbursements based on kickback-tainted claims for drugs such as...

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Psychedelics eyed for mood disorders - Boing Boing

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Drugs deal wastes $260m

via brisbanetimes.com.au The government is wasting $260 million every year because it is ignoring advice that it is paying too much for the most commonly prescribed drug in Australia. Health...

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Did Novartis Violate A Corporate Integrity Agreement? | Pharmalot

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Drug industry ‘profiteering’ threatens lives, say doctors - Telegraph

via telegraph.co.uk Some 11 of the 12 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US in 2012 were priced above $100,000 (£65,000) per patient per year, with the price of existing drugs...

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Novartis speaks out after second kickbacks lawsuit

>via pharmatimes.com The lawsuits also noted one dinner for three, including the speaker, at a Washington DC restaurant which cost over $2,000. At another programme held on Valentine’s Day in 2006,...

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Valeant-Actavis talks break down - The Globe and Mail

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Editorial :: It's time for AllTrials registered and reported - The Cochrane...

It's time for AllTrials registered and reported By: Tracey Brown On: April 30, 2013, 12:53 The Cochrane Collaboration has become a lead partner in the AllTrials initiative (AllTrials.net), a campaign...

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European Medicines Agency receives interim decisions of the General Court of...

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