Geodon, Ziprasidone News

The growing need to establish a drug's safety and long-term efficacy in a given population has increased the number of late-phase studies performed by the pharmaceutical industry over the past decade.

Pfizer used three physicians who have since been accused of misconduct to prepare submissions to the FDA for the approval of the antipsychotic Geodon , according to a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a Harrisburg, Pa., doctor.

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Pfizer Inc. paid the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill hundreds of thousands of dollars and its former president thousands more, turning the organization into a "Trojan horse" for an illegal marketing scheme that helped boost the schizophrenia drug Geodon's sales by millions of dollars a year, according to a lawsuit unsealed this week.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has reached a $33-million settlement with Oregon and 42 other states after being accused of illegally marketing a drug called Geodon.

Lax Food and Drug Administration enforcement of its own regulations. That's the take of Brian Kenney of Kenney Egan in Philadelphia.

Business Journal September 2, 2009 SECTION: ISSN: 0890-2127 ACC-NO: 207084391 LENGTH: 558 words HEADLINE: Colorado gets $3.5 million from drug settlement.

Pfizer Inc. reached a separate $33 million settlement with 24 states, including Arizona, over potentially improper marketing of a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders.

Attorney General Larry Long announced today that he, along with 42 other Attorneys General, reached a $33 million dollar settlement with Pfizer Inc.

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna says the state's share of a nationwide settlement with Pfizer Inc.

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 ...

Pfizer will pay $2.3 billion to settle a U.S. investigation into illegal marketing of Bextra, Lyrica, Zyvox and Geodon.

In 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Pfizer Inc. that its ads touting the antibiotic Zyvox as superior to similar drugs could endanger public health.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that he, together with Delaware Attorney General Biden's Office, led a group of 43 Attorneys General in reaching a $33 million dollar consumer protection settlement with Pfizer Inc.

Pfizer, Inc. announced today it has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and to pay more than $2 billion in criminal and civil fines, penalties and damages to settle allegations made in multiple whistleblower lawsuits that the pharmaceutical giant defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other government-funded health care programs in connection with ...

Colorado will get $3.5 million as its share of a pair of multistate legal settlements with drugmaker Pfizer Inc.

JAMA. 2009;302 :833-834. Despite safety concerns, a US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended in June that the agency approve 3 atypical antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Schering-Plough Corp.'s new drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Saphris, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the company said Friday.

LAURENCE GREENHILL, MD Incoming head of AACAP An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted to approve two drugs for teens and pre-adolescents with schizophrenia and bipolar mania, and gave a split vote on a third drug.

LAURENCE GREENHILL, MD Incoming head of AACAP An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted to approve two drugs for teens and pre-adolescents with schizophrenia and bipolar mania, and gave a split vote on a third drug.