Novartis Overhyping Heart Drug Study Results?
Source Trying to put a good face on a less-than-ideal situation is human nature. And drugmakers are human, too – or at least collections of humans. So it is not surprising that the language used in a press release announcing results of an important study for a potentially big-selling treatment might overstate the case a […]
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MA Pharmacy Board Chair Fired Over Compounding Mess
Source The scandal over the meningitis outbreak attributed to the New England Compounding Center took a new turn yesterday when Massachusetts state health officials fired state pharmacy board Jim Coffey and placed board attorney Susan Manning on leave for allegedly ignoring a complaint last July that bulk shipments of drugs were distributed to hospitals in […]
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Competing Drugmakers Compete for FDA Warnings
Source This may be a case of taking competition to a new low. Late last month, the FDA Office of Prescription Drug Program issued so-called untitled letters to a pair of drugmakers – ONY Pharmaceuticals and Cornerstone Therapeutics – for hyping their competing treatments for neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In both cases, the agency cites […]
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Medtronic Manipulated Studies?
Source There is nothing like a stack of internal documents to tell a story. And so, the US Senate Finance Committee has released a wad showing Medtronic employees were secretly involved in drafting and editing favorable journal articles about its spinal fusion product while the device maker paid millions to influential doctors whose names were […]
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The Very Bad 483 Report From New England Compounding
Source The compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts that has been at the center of an alarming meningitis outbreak had ‘greenish-black foreign matter’ on sterilization equipment and regularly turned off air conditioning each night, despite the need to control temperature in the so-called clean rooms where medications were made and stored, according to the FDA [PLEASE SEE […]
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Florida Shuts Down Compounding Pharmacy
Source In the wake of the meningitis outbreak and controversy over compounding pharmacies, the Florida Department of Health late last week suspended a compounder in Boca Raton after determining the pharmacy had violated a number of statutes and rules. The move came following an inpsection earlier this month. In reaching its decision, the department cited […]
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Pfizer Slashes 300 Jobs in Canada
Source As part of its ongoing job cutting, Pfizer is eliminating 300 jobs from its Canadian operations, mostly in sales and marketing, in what is the latest blow to pharmaceutical employment in the country. The cuts amount to roughly 11 percent of the Pfizer (PFE) workforce in Canada, The Globe and Mailnotes. The move comes […]
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New England Compounding Center may have other tainted drugs
Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any kind of injection from the company. Continue reading More on this story Maryland reports 14th, 15th cases of meningitis linked to shot Meningitis outbreak: 170 […]
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Pharmacy In Outbreak Is Raided
Federal criminal investigators on Tuesday searched the New England Compounding Center, which supplied drugs tied to the deadly meningitis outbreak. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said criminal investigators from the agency were at the NECC, based in Framingham, Mass., on Tuesday. U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz of Massachusetts said her office […]
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Abbott Labs Axes 550 Jobs
On the eve of its planned split into two companies, Abbott Laboratories is eliminating about 550 jobs from various locations, mostly in the US and the rest primarily in Europe. And several hundred more positions will shed throughout next year, a spokesman tells us. The jobs will be cut from the nutrition, vascular, established pharmaceuticals […]
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