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Pharmaceutical company ITH Pharma Ltd has been charged with a litany of offences following the deaths of babies at a number of British hospitals, police have announced. London-based, ITH Pharma Ltd, is facing criminal charges after allegedly supplying contaminated feed to premature babies. READ MORE: Human body parts among tonnes of waste piled up in NHS […]
A pediatric cardiologist from Marietta, Georgia, has admitted illegally providing confidential patient data to US pharmaceutical company Aegerion. The information was to help the company mismarket a costly drug. Dr. Eduardo Montana, 55, pleaded guilty in a Boston court hearing to disclosing 280 patients’ “individually identifiable health information” to Aegerion. Last September, the company was […]
Turning to an industry he’s rebuked, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday he wants Alex Azar, a former deputy for the health department-turned-pharmaceutical executive, to be his health secretary. CBC | Health News
The provincial health minister wants to make information public about how much money healthcare providers receive from pharmaceutical companies, as they do in the United States and Europe. CBC | Health News
Doctors are directly telling patients about their views on drugs on Twitter, and financial conflict plays a role. But they’re not telling patients they have a conflict on the social media platform, a new study suggests. CBC | Health News
Opioid abuse is rampant in states like Ohio, where paramedics are increasingly spending time responding to overdoses and where coroners’ offices are running out of room to store bodies. In 2012, there were 793 million doses of opioids prescribed in the state, enough to supply every man, woman, and child, with 68 pills each. Roughly […]
Doctors are sounding the alarm about a cancer plot line in the soap opera General Hospital, calling it a sneaky way of skirting pharmaceutical advertising laws. CBC | Health News
Thomson Reuters An Illinois prosecutor is hitting pharmaceutical manufacturers with two lawsuits for deceiving the public on the dangers of opioids, joining a growing body of states suing drug makers. Brendan Kelly, the state attorney for St. Clair County, filed a 159 page lawsuit Thursday against Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories, accusing the company of consumer […]
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American Enterprise Institute via Reuters President Trump has been pressing for proposals to lower prescription drug prices to the point that he has begun conferring with a senior Democratic lawmaker on ways to prevent the pharmaceutical industry from “getting away with murder” in their pricing practices. While Trump has yet to unveil concrete proposals for […]
