- Brett Emison | September 29, 2011 11:25 AM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | January 17, 2011 10:57 AM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | April 28, 2010 4:23 PM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | November 19, 2009 10:37 AM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | November 17, 2009 11:33 AM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | October 30, 2009 3:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
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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...
- Brett Emison | September 23, 2009 3:39 PM | Kansas City, MO
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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...