Pharmaceutical company Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC will pay $56.5 million to resolve civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act as a result of its marketing and promotion of several drugs, the Justice Department announced today.Ā Shire manufactures and sells...
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UK medical device maker Smith & Nephew pays $8 million for selling U.S. devices made outside US
U.K.-based medical device manufacturer Smith & Nephew has agreed to settle a qui tam suit and pay the United States government eight million dollars. The whistleblower, Sam Cox, sued Smith & Nephew under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act for violating the Trade Agreements Act (TAA). The whistleblower provisions...
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Glaxo hit with new allegations of bribes to Syrian doctors and officials
Pharmaceutical maker GlaxoSmithKline has new allegations that it bribed Syrian doctors and officials to spike sales of its medicines in that country, according to Reuters News Service. The latest charges were detailed in an anonymous email sent to the company's top managers last week and viewed by Reuters.
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Johns Hopkins Study: dangers of Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor including kidney disease don’t outweigh benefits
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical have concluded a major study published by the British Medical Journal on July 31, which has concluded that statins including Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor have side effects that do not outweigh the benefits of lowering cholesterol. Statins are widely used m with an...
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Inspector General Report: $30 Million of Medicare invoices for HIV drugs may be fraudulent
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services says that $30 million paid by Medicare for HIV drugs in 2012 may be questionable and fraudulent. The payments were made under the Medicare Part D program according to the Washington Post, reporting on the IG report, in Detroit, a 77-year-old...
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Vascular Solutions Inc. to Pay $520,000 to Resolve False Claims Allegations Relating to Medical Device
Vascular Solutions Inc. (VSI) has agreed to pay $520,000 to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted to federal health programs by marketing a medical device for the ablation (or sealing) of perforator veins without FDA approval and despite the failure of its own clinical trial, the Justice Department announced today....
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Email alleges Glaxo bribed docs in Syria
According to the Wall Street Journal, GlaxoSmithKline PLC received an anonymous email claiming that its employees in Syria bribed doctors and pharmacists over the past five years. The bribes may have been paid to promote products including the painkiller Panadol and toothpaste Sensodyne and took the form of cash payments, speaking fees,...
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On-line pharmacies outside U.S. spawn prosecutions and FedEx is latest target
Federal authorities charged FedEx with assisting illegal pharmacies by knowingly delivering painkillers and dangerous drugs to customers without prescriptions. The indictment filed in federal court in San Francisco alleges that FedEx Corp. conspired with two related online pharmacies for 10...
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DePuy ASR hip replacement settlement payments being this month
Individuals across the country who received faulty DePuy ASR hip implants will begin receiving payments in the next few months under the terms of a settlement agreement to resolve over 12,000 lawsuits.
Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary reached an agreement in November 2013, agreeing to pay at least $2.4 billion...
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Novartis again accused of kickbacks to McKesson
A former executive director of Novartis' Health Economics and Outcomes Research Group, Min Amy Guo has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the way Novartis proposed awarding a contract to McKesson for a study of the cancer drug Afinitor was a form of kickbacks under the "disguise of research."
Guo said in her suit that...
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