Drug company CEO’s child dies from injuries
Four days after the girlfriend of a wealthy pharmaceutical executive was found hanged at his mansion near San Diego, his 6-year-old son has died from injuries suffered in an apparent stairway fall, police said on Monday. Max Shacknai’s death was first revealed in a joint statement released Sunday night by his father, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp […]
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Is Brain Swelling Common To Alzheimer’s Drugs?
Three patients who were treated with an Alzheimer’s med being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb wound up with a brain-swelling condition known as vasogenic edema, but the side effect may be common in Alzheimer’s patients, according to researchers who were speaking at the Alzheimer’s International Conference in Paris. Best Selling Webinar 2010 – July 21 2 […]
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Glaxo Threatened With Legal Action By Hong Kong
One month after finding traces of chemicals banned for use in food and drinks in the Augmentin pediatric antibiotic sold by GlaxoSmithKline, Hong Kong health officials are now threatening to take legal action against the drugmaker and widened a product recall to include not only powered syrups but also tablets. Best Selling Webinar 2010 – […]
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FDA issues warning on cardiac PET scans
The FDA has notified the public and the medical imaging community about the potential for inadvertent, increased radiation exposure in patients who underwent or will be undergoing cardiac PET scans with rubidium (Rb)-82 chloride injection from CardioGen-82 (Bracco Diagnostics). A CardioGen-82 PET scan is one of a variety of nuclear medicine scans and uses Rb-82 […]
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Medicis Shares Sink on Death of CEO’s Girlfriend
When do a CEO’s personal problems become worrisome to investors? Well, it depends on the problem. In the case of Medicis Pharmaceutical chief Jonah Shacknai, the answer is, “Almost immediately.” Two days after his 6-year-old son suffered critical injuries from a fall down a staircase at his Coronado, CA, house, Shacknai’s live-in girlfriend was found […]
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Maine Repeals Three Get-Tough-On-Pharma Laws
In the latest move by the Republican-dominated legislature in Maine to undo laws that have made the pharmaceutical industry uncomfortable, three bills were repealed this week that required drugmakers to report three things: marketing costs, prices subject to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and negative findings in clinical trials. Best Selling Webinar 2010 – July […]
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BioSan Fails to Correct GMP Violations
FDA found BioSan Laboratories Inc. failed to correct a number of cGMPs (current good manufacturing practices) violations found during the agency’s Dec. 6, 2010, to Jan. 25, 2011, inspection, according to a letter FDA sent to Carl Jackson, owner and president of the company. FDA reported BioSan Lab’s facility in Derry, NH, did not properly […]
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The Medicis Pharma CEO And A Dead Girlfriend
There may be an honest-to-goodness whodunnit unfolding at Medicis Pharmaceutical, where the nude body of the 32-year-old, live-in girlfriend of Jonah Shacknai, who runs the drugmaker, was found yesterday at his seaside home in Coronado, California. She has since been identified as Rebecca Nalepa and his brother found her hanging by her neck from a […]
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FDA warns mesh used in surgery poses risk
Women who have vaginal surgery to fix a common gynecologic condition called pelvic organ prolapse may wind up with more problems than benefits if a plastic mesh is used, according to a safety communication issued yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warned patients and surgeons to consider other options. The FDA said […]
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Merck Job Cuts To Pick Up Steam
Source: Pharmalot.com Last year, Merck disclosed plans to save up to $3.5 billion by closing numerous research sites and manufacturing plants, and eliminate roughly 15,000 jobs by 2012, or roughly 10 percent of the total headcount that included the thousands of people who were part of the 2009 acquisition of Schering-Plough. Before the deal, Merck […]
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