Posts tagged seroquel

• Doctors Paid Millions To Promote Drugs and Medical Devices

  Brett Emison | September 29, 2011 11:25 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The Chicago Tribune reported that drug companies paid more than $25 million to Illinois doctors to promote and use drugs from the pharmaceutical companies. Nearly 40 physicians got payments and...

• Did You Know... Health Advocacy Groups Take Millions From Big Pharma?

  Brett Emison | January 17, 2011 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Did you know that pharmaceutical companies are able to influence the findings of seemingly independent research conducted by health advocacy groups? According to this study conducted by the American...

• AstraZeneca Fined $520 Million For Seroquel Kick Back / Marketing Scheme

  Brett Emison | April 28, 2010 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I reported last year about AstraZeneca's ongoing problems with its antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. The pharmaceutical giant denied Seroquel's link to diabetes in the US years after acknowledging the...

• AstraZeneca: Judge Returns Seroquel Lawsuits To Original Courts

  Brett Emison | November 19, 2009 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News has reported that federal district judge, the honorable Anne Conway, will urge a panel of judges to return all of the Seroquel cases to courts across the United States for trial in...

• AstraZeneca Paid Doctors Millions To Promote Seroquel Despite Problems

  Brett Emison | November 17, 2009 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the millions that foreign drug maker AstraZeneca paid doctors to promote its anti-psychotic drug, Seroquel, despite doctors' concerns about Seroquel side...

• Seroquel Settlement -- AstraZeneca Pays Half A Billion Dollars To Settle Four Seroquel Cases

  Brett Emison | October 30, 2009 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The New York Times reported that AstraZeneca -- the manufacturer of the atypical antipsychotic drug, Seroquel -- will pay $520 million to settle two federal investigations and two whistle-blower...

• AstraZeneca Denied Seroquel Diabetes Link in US Years After Acknowledging Danger in Japan

  Brett Emison | September 23, 2009 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News reported today that AstraZeneca told US doctors that its antipsychotic drug, Seroquel, did not cause diabetes nearly four years after the drug maker warned Japanese doctors about...