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Saturday | Courier Times News

Drug firm guilty in 'off-label' scheme

A pharmaceutical company pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to promoting drugs for unintended purposes and has agreed to pay $50 million in criminal penalties and $375 million in civil penalties.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Sales, Gabitril, Tiagabine (generic), Medication

Fri Oct 10, 2008

TriStateNews.Com

State Receives Settlement in National Medicaid Fraud

Attorney General Anne Milgram announced today that New Jersey will receive nearly $2.5 million in restitution in a national Medicaid fraud settlement with pharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Marketing, Gabitril, Tiagabine (generic), Medication, Provigil, Modafinil (generic), US News, Food and Drug Administration

Wed Oct 08, 2008

Fool.com

Lilly Gets Off Easy

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Eli Lilly said yesterday that it "resolved an investigation" by 32 states and the District of Columbia over allegations that it marketed its antipsychotic, ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Eli Lilly, Healthcare Industry, District of Columbia Government, Washington DC, Merck , Pfizer

Tue Oct 07, 2008

PR-inside.com

Biotech 2008 to Feature Cephalon CEO, Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. as Luncheon Keynote Speaker

Collaborate. Innovate, the eighth annual joint symposium of BioNJ and Pennsylvania Bio, will feature Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D., chairman and CEO of Cephalon, Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Mon Oct 06, 2008

Philadelphia Business Journal

Phila.-area stocks mauled by market fears

The Dow Jones industrial average was down an alarming 5 percent Monday morning despite Friday's passage of the bank bailout.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding, Insurance, Philadelphia, PA, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Food, Campbell Soup

Sun Oct 05, 2008

MediLexicon

Drugmaker Cephalon Completes $443.9M Settlement With DOJ, States...

Main Category: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Cephalon on Monday completed a $443.9 million settlement with federal and state regulators related to ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, US News, Marketing, Gabitril, Tiagabine (generic), Medication, Health

Fri Oct 03, 2008

BNET

Pharma Update: A Victory for Amgen, A Gift from Congress, and More

Amgen wins patent case against Roche - The courts have decided that Roche cana TMt sell its anemia drug Mircera in the United States, since it violates patent law by competing with Amgen a TMs anemia offerings, ...

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Related Topix: Patent / Trademark Law, Law, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

WCAX-TV Burlington

Vt. Medicaid to receive $1.1 million in drug case

The Vermont Attorney General's office says the state's Medicaid program will receive almost $1.1 million to settle charges the pharmaceutical company Cephalon, Inc., improperly marketed certain drugs.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu Oct 02, 2008

KXMA-TV Dickinson

South Dakota gets $49,000 in drug settlement

SDDrug Settlement,0101 South Dakota gets $49,000 in drug settlement Eds: APNewsNow.

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Related Topix: Pierre, SD, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Health Care Renewal

What's a life worth to Cephalon and its stockholders?

Apparently, not very much, considering their off-label promotions of opiate-laced lollipops.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Gabitril, Tiagabine (generic), Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Prison

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Read the story

Aloha Petroleum Ltd. , a privately held oil marketer, has selected CBX , a consultancy agency based in New York, to design a prototypical convenience store, beginning with a new, ground-up unit to open on Oahu ...

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Related Topix: Marketing, Retail, Medicaid, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Walgreens

Med Ad News

Cephalon Concludes All Outstanding Federal and State Government...

Cephalon, Inc. announced today it has finalized a previously announced agreement in principle with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Justice and various ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, US News, Provigil, Modafinil (generic), Gabitril, Tiagabine (generic), Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Tue Sep 30, 2008

The Honolulu Advertiser

EPA fines company over pesticides

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has levied a $65,050 fine against Vector Tobacco Inc.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Kekaha, HI, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Las Vegas Sun

Nevada settles with drug maker Cephalon for $6.9 million

Mon, Sep 29, 2008 Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced today that the state had reached a tentative $6.9 million agreement with a major drug manufacturer.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Seizures

Fox Philadelphia

Cephalon To Pay $425M For Improper Drug Marketing

Drug maker Cephalon, completing a previously announced settlement, will pay $425 million for illegally marketing a highly addictive lollipop painkiller and two other drugs for non-approved uses.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Medicine, Duragesic, Fentanyl (generic), Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Food and Drug Administration

Mon Sep 22, 2008

Domain-B

Biocon ranked seventh top biotech employer globally

Bangalore-based Biocon Ltd has been ranked as the 7th largest employer amongst the top global biotechnology companies, behind Biogen but ahead of global life science companies Gilead , Cephalon and Amylin.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Gilead Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Science / Technology

Wed Sep 17, 2008

BNET

Behind Cephalon's Numbers: a Big Cancer Bet and Signs of Skepticism

The FDA delivered to Cephalon a letter yesterday saying it would not approve expanded indications for its pain drug Fentora until the company gave it more information on how it would prevent the drug from being ...

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Related Topix: Narcolepsy, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Marketing

Mon Sep 15, 2008

The Daily Local

On the move

Mark S. Purcell joined Nason Construction as business development manager and project executive.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Energy, Oil & Gas, Philadelphia, PA Metro, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu Sep 11, 2008

Motley Fool

Today's 5-Star Movers

As fundamentals-focused long-term investors, Fools never base an investment decision on the daily gyrations of the market.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Financial Markets, DENTSPLY International, Medical Equipment, Utah Medical Products

Mon Sep 08, 2008

Fool.com

Sitting Tight in September

For drug developers, few events can affect their share price more than an FDA decision about one of their drug candidates.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Duragesic, Fentanyl (generic), Medication, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Marketing

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