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Monday Oct 26 | PharmaGossip

Pharma Seeks Cure For Off-Label Woes - Yahoo! Finance

There's a chance your doctor will prescribe a drug approved for a related or even different disease.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, University of Southern California, Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Medication, Marketing, Allergan

Mon Oct 19, 2009

BNET

DOJ Blames Pfizer Management for Bextra Mess: "The Goal Was to Avoid Getting Caught"

The Department of Justice blamed Pfizer 's management for the $2.3 billion Bextra settlement by creating a "corporate culture" in which off-label promotion was encouraged, and where not going along was regarded as a "CLM" or career-limiting move.

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Related Topix: Medicine, US News, Sales, Marketing

Sat Oct 17, 2009

MarketWatch

Pfizer subsidiary hit with record fine

Pfizer Inc. subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. has been sentenced to pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the U.S. for misbranding the pain medication Bextra, the U.S. Justice Department said late Friday.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Medication, Health, Pain, Food and Drug Administration

Fri Sep 25, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

Researcher who saved countless lives takes on big pharma a " and pays the price

Dr. Dennis Mangano alleges Pfizer stole information from a database on medical research he helped create.

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Related Topix: 60 Minutes, Entertainment, Television, Medicine, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication, Marketing

Mon Sep 21, 2009

Hartford Courant

Will Record Fine Set Pfizer Straight?

Making lifesaving drugs doesn't give a company license to fraudulently market its medicines.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Opinion, Ansonia, CT

Thu Sep 17, 2009

About.com

Bextra Makers Fined Record $1.3 Billion

Pharmacia & Upjohn Co., a subsidiary of drug giant Pfizer Inc. , has agreed to pay fines totaling $1.3 billion for felony violations for advertising its anti-inflammatory drug Bextra for uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Health, Pain

Tue Sep 15, 2009

Millville News

Pfizer to pay $2.3B in fines after admitting illegal drug promotions

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, agrees to pay $2.3 billion in connection with illegal drug promotions in a record legal settlement with the government.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Medication

Fri Sep 11, 2009

LymeBlog News and Personal Stories

Repeat Offender Pfizer Pays Record $2.3 Billion Fraud Settlement

Opinion / Editorial : Repeat Offender Pfizer Pays Record $2.3 Billion Fraud Settlement Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in its History Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/justice_090209.htm FBI Press release BBC: Pfizer agrees record fraud fine ...

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Law, Marketing, 9, Medication, Health, Pain

Thu Sep 10, 2009

Blanco County News

Texas Resolves Multi-State Medicaid Fraud Investigation; Recovers $55 Million

" Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a coalition of state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice today resolved a lengthy civil Medicaid fraud investigation into Pfizer, Inc.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, US News, Medication, Food and Drug Administration, Marketing

Wed Sep 09, 2009

Response

Pfizer Settles in Fraudulent Marketing Case

NEW YORK Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Inc. finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle an investigation on past promotional practices for the drug Bextra a product voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2005.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Marketing, US News, Medication, Food and Drug Administration

Arkansas Times

Pfizer in $2 billion settlement

Pfizer has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to settle a fraud claim over its marketing of a pain-killing drug, Bextra, and some other drugs.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

Tue Sep 08, 2009

WBOC-TV Salisbury

Pfizer Inc. to Pay $2.3 Billion in Historic Settlement

The Attorney General's office announced today that the State of Delaware, along with other states and the federal government, has reached agreement with Pfizer Inc to settle civil and criminal allegations that the company and its subsidiaries paid kickbacks and engaged in improper marketing of numerous drugs that it manufactures.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Marketing, Healthcare Law, Medication

Mon Sep 07, 2009

Buzzle.com

Pfizer Drug Breach Ends in Biggest Us Crime Fine

Company pays $1.3bn fine as part of $2.3bn settlement for misbranding medicines and giving kickbacks to doctors Pfizer, the world's largest drugs company, has been hit with the biggest criminal fine in US history as part of a $2.3bn settlement with federal prosecutors for mispromoting medicines and for paying kickbacks to compliant doctors.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Medication, New York, Healthcare Law

Sun Sep 06, 2009

The Chronicle Herald

Pfizer fined $2.3b for illegal drug marketing

Pfizer fined $2.3b for illegal drug marketing Company promoted medications for unapproved uses, critics say By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press Sat.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Marketing, Medication, Food and Drug Administration, Lyrica, Pregabalin (generic)

Sat Sep 05, 2009

Times of Oman

Pfizer to pay $2.3 bln to settle marketing charges

WASHINGTON: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc will pay a record $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges about how it marketed some of its drugs under a settlement to be unveiled on Wednesday, a source familiar with the settlement said.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, US News

Cape Cod Today

Bruce Pfizer is spearheading, and on the advisory council, for the

An open forum to discuss all things legal. Creating beautiful smiles is our business.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Fri Sep 04, 2009

Bloomberg

AIG of Drugmakers Pfizer Is Too Big to Be Guilty: Ann Woolner

Pfizer Inc. sales folks had one tough customer in psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Family, Elderly, Criminal Defense Law, Healthcare Law, Law, Medication, Sales

BocaNews.com

Pfizer must pay $58 million to Florida

Florida will receive a total of $58.2 million as part of a global settlement with Pfizer Inc.A The agreement resolves civil and criminal allegations that Pfizer and its subsidiaries paid kickbacks and engaged in off-labeling marketing campaigns that improperly promoted numerous drugs that Pfizer manufactures, according to Attorney General Bill ...

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Marketing, Healthcare Law, Medicine, Medication, Geodon, Ziprasidone (generic)

Thu Sep 03, 2009

The World Newser

Clem's Chronicles: Obama & Health Care/Cali Fires/Afghan Hazing/Pfizer Fines

President Obama will address a joint session of Congress next Wednesday Sept. 09, it was announced today.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US News, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Medication, Health, Pain

Myrtle Beach Online

Pfizer to pay record $2.3 billion settlement

People familiar with a record legal settlement to be announced Wednesday say that Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, will pay $2.3 billion in connection with illegal drug promotions.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health, Pain, Medication, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission, Banking, Financial Services, Bank of America, Entertainment

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