-
Pharmalot
| 11 months ago
Earlier this week, GlaxoSmithKline ceo Andrew Witty made an unusual statement. In response to a $3 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice, which alleged the drugmaker engaged in off-label promotion, a failure to report safety data and...
-
io9
| 11 months ago
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline was recently slapped with an unprecedented $3 billion fine for a series of questionable business practices dating back to 1998. The fine is the largest for healthcare fraud in US history and a clear message from...
-
Charlotte Observer Online
| 11 months ago
A federal judge in Boston has signed off an agreement by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people...District Court to promoting popular...
-
MarketWatch
| 11 months ago
Paxil was never approved for use by anyone under 18, but GlaxoSmithKline had 1,900 sales reps visiting doctor's offices, and pushing the drug for kids. The international pharmaceutical giant took top-prescribing psychiatrists to pricey resorts in...
-
Health Care Renewal
| 11 months ago
As summarized by the New York Times , In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling...
-
PharmaGossip
| 11 months ago
The industry is therefore tacitly encouraged to continue its illegal activity. In the settlement, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve allegations stemming from illegal activity spanning 10 years and involving several of its...
-
Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
In June 1999, popular radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky used the airwaves to extol the virtues of GlaxoSmithKline PLC's antidepressant Wellbutrin, telling listeners he prescribes it and other medications to depressed patients because it "may enhance...
-
The Independent
| 11 months ago
GlaxoSmithKline was last night facing calls to be prosecuted in Britain after the drugmaking giant pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid a $3bn (£1.9bn) fine to settle what US government officials called the largest case of healthcare fraud in...
-
Consumer Reports Health Blog
| 11 months ago
While the details of the charges by the Department of Justice read like a Grisham novel, the complaints are all too serious, and offer important lessons for anyone who takes prescription drugs. Lesson #1: Find out if a drug prescribed to you is...
-
NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Dr. Drew Pinsky may have had a vested interest in seeing that patients took their meds. The media star doctor is facing allegations that he accepted $275,000 to talk up the drug Wellbutrin SR while hosting his radio and television show Loveline.
-
The Hindu
| 11 months ago
One-third of the $3 billion fine is a criminal penalty In the largest settlement ever involving a pharmaceutical company, British drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges, and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its...
-
Pharma Marketing Blog
| 11 months ago
AstraZeneca , which was fined $520 million to resolve allegations that it illegally promoted the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel. The drug was approved for treating schizophrenia and later for bipolar mania, but the government alleged that AstraZeneca...
-
National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
As part of a landmark $3 billion settlement of health fraud charges by GlaxoSmithKline, the government released a slew of documents that serve as a one-stop guide to alleged sales practices that ran rampant for years. The British drugmaker agreed to...
-
Popeater
| 11 months ago
GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $3 billion this week in part to settle claims it paid doctors to illegally promote its drugs. Turns out, the company was allegedly paying one doctor you may have heard of. TV and radio personality -- and famed sex advice-...
-
Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Story continues below Aropex ... fraudulently promoted for the treatment of diabetes and mental illness. The company has also admitted to other such "off-label" marketing, as well as attempting to cover up the increased risk of heart problems linked...
-
Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
Toby Melville/Reuters Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn (£1.9bn) after admitting it bribed doctors and encouraged the prescribing of unsuitable antidepressants to children. The company encouraged sales reps in the US to mis-...
-
In the Pipeline
| 11 months ago
About this Author Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical...
-
NeuroLogica
| 11 months ago
Jul 03 2012 The pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, has agreed to pay three billion dollars in fines to settle three charges of fraud brought by the FDA...What are the implications of this settlement for how the pharmaceutical industry is...
-
Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
The British pharmaceutical giant agreed to pay a nearly $1-billion fine for illegally marketing and promoting a number of well-known products for uses not approved by federal drug regulators, the U.S...The company will pay an additional $2 billion to...
-
Reuters
| 11 months ago
Topics A GlaxoSmithKline logo is seen outside one of its buildings in west London in this February 6, 2008 file photograph. GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle the largest case of healthcare...
