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A federal judge in California dismissed a case brought by the family of a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide while taking the antidepressant, cit
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The drugmaker failed to pay the appropriate rebates to Medicaid and other goverment health care programs, and also paid kickbacks to doctors and hospitals to induce them to prescribe various meds. Th
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Dr. Robert Jarvik can't prescribe a drug, not even Lipitor. He's not licensed, remember? And today we learn that, even though he looks good in those ads rowing across a beautiful lake, it wasn't r
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A letter to the New England Journal of Medicine details two dramatic, but potentially cautionary tales about Tysabri. A 46-year-old woman with MS received her first dose of Tysabri; thereafter her me
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In fact, Barry Straube, the agency's chief medical officer, says the case for restricting payments for the anemia drugs has become stronger since the the controversial decision was made. His remarks
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That's the interpretation from Tim Anderson, a securities analyst at Sanford Bernstein, who notes that the drugmaker hasn't crowed about receiving a 6-month priority review, even though last Friday
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In another blow to an ad hoc group of prostate-cancer patients and stock investors, the House Energy & Commerce Committee has decided not to hold a hearing into the controversy over the FDA’s handlin
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Two-thirds of all prescriptions filled in the US are generics, the highest-ever rate, according to figures released by the Generic Pharmaceutical Association. That's up from 63 percent. Meanwhile, B
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The lives of 22,000 people could have been saved if the FDA removed Bayer’s Trasylol two years ago, when his study revealed a growing number of deaths linked to the heart drug. That’s what Dennis Man
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A few day ago, Schering-Plough ceo Fred Hassan appeared on CNBC's Mad Money, where he spoke with Jim Cramer, the hyperactive host, about the controversy surrounding Vytorin. In particular, Cramer as
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