Posts tagged drugs

• Prescription Drug Deaths at an All-Time High

  Mike Ferrara | November 11, 2011 7:08 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For the first time in history, more Americans are dying from drug-related causes than in auto accidents. According to a recent study by the CDC, in 2009, drugs killed more than 37,000 men, women and...

• Injured by a Generic Drug? Too Bad, Says the Supreme Court

  Mike Ferrara | June 29, 2011 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Last week, Justice Clarence Thomas authored an opinion for the Supreme Court finding that federal law preempts all state law cases against generic drug manufacturers who fail to sufficiently warn...

• GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750 Million for Felony Fraud

  Mike Ferrara | November 06, 2010 4:40 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is pleading guilty to criminal felony charges in an American investigation into its manufacturing practices at a Puerto Rico plant, and will pay $750 million in...

• Preemption Victory in Generic Drug Labeling Case Mensing v. Wyeth

  Camryn Hansen | December 03, 2009 8:15 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Following on the heels of the preemption victory in Wyeth v. Levine, in which the Supreme Court decided that consumers can sue a drug company for inadequate prescription drug labeling...

• Institute of Medicine: We Need Mandatory Reporting on Doctor Conflicts of Interest

  Mike Ferrara | May 04, 2009 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In the wake of a recent Massachusetts state ban on drug industry gifts to doctors and a Cleveland Clinic mandate requiring all its doctors to publicly report their financial ties to drug...

• FDA - Raptiva Withdrawn From U.S. Market

  Chrissie Cole | April 10, 2009 12:22 PM | 0 CommentsNewark, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Genentech, Inc., the maker of the psoriasis drug Raptiva (generic name efalizumab) recently announced a phased voluntary withdrawal of the prescription only drug from the U.S. market. The...

• Novartis to Pay $78 Million for Medicaid Fraud

  Mike Ferrara | February 25, 2009 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  An Alabama jury ruled this week that drug giant Novartis will have to pay over $78 million in damages for overcharging the state’s Medicaid health program for generic drugs. Finding that...

• Medical Ghostwriting is Scientific Misconduct – More Regulation Needed to Ensure Full Disclosure of Authorship in Prescription Drug Studies

  Camryn Hansen | February 05, 2009 8:34 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week, open-access journal PLoS Medicine features a discussion on medical ghostwriting by leading scientists, denouncing ghostwriting as “scientific misconduct” which poses a...

• A New Look at Drug Safety – Fierce Prescription Drug Critic Sidney Wolfe Appointed to FDA

  Camryn Hansen | January 10, 2009 11:16 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Those who are frustrated by FDA leniency towards new, insufficiently tested and/or potentially dangerous drugs on the American market will be happy to know that the Caesar Millan of prescription...

• Ghostwriters, Not Real Scientists, Write Drug Company Studies, and Companies Like Merck Lie About it. Federal Preemption Would Remove Your Right to Protect Yourself.

  Mike Ferrara | October 09, 2008 8:11 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New evidence emerging from the Merck lawsuits over the painkiller Vioxx shows that the company repeatedly lied to both the FDA and respected medical journals about who was conducting and writing...