Novartis to Sue Kanye West For Theraflu Reference?
Source: Pharmalot And you thought Theraflu was a medicine for coughs and colds. Well, it’s more than that now. Theraflu is also the name of the new single by rapper Kanye West, who carries on about his complicated love life, including his latest fling, Kim Kardashian, as well as ex-girlfriend Amber Rose and her new […]
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Optimer Pharma Fires Three Execs
Source: Pharmalot A little drugmaker is undergoing a big shake up. Optimer Pharmaceuticals has removed Michael Chang as chairman for failing to “identify and effectively manage†compliance, record keeping and unspecified conflict of interest issues in connection with a grant of 1.5 million shares in a biotech affiliate, which were potentially for the benefit of […]
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Massachusetts Sees $2B Construction Boom from the Biopharma Industry
Shire Human Genetic Therapies recently vacated a Cambridge, MA site, moving employees to its campus in Lexington, MA, but the 115,000 square foot space won’t stay vacant for long. Pfizer will occupy it temporarily while a new permanent lab-office for it rises just 0.1 miles east. Shire and Pfizer are among nearly a dozen biopharma […]
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Painkiller Sales Soar in US
Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic. From New York’s Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 […]
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Pfizer Axes Severance Packages
Source Having already laid off some 26,000 employees in recent years, Pfizer plans to reduce severance packages for employees as of May 14 as part of yet another cost-cutting move, according to Bloomberg News, citing an internal memo. The move comes as the drugmaker considers selling or spinning off its animal health and nutrition businesses, […]
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Pax-All VP Blasts FDA
Source: Pharmalot Some guys have all the bad luck, right? At least, that’s how Mario Merino, the vice president at Pax-All Manufacturing, an over-the-counter drugmaker in Ontario, Canada, feels these days. When asked about a warning letter from the FDA, which is maintaining a ban on allowing Pax-All products into the US, he complained the […]
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FDA Discovers Yet Another Batch of Fake Avastin
Source: Pharmalot Like a game of whack-a-mole, the FDA is finding counterfeit Avastin continues to pop up. And the latest batch appears to have been distributed by a different group of suppliers that were identified when the agency first publicized the problem two months ago, according to a safety alert that was issued late yesterday. […]
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California implant makers get FDA warnings
Two Murrieta, CA-based implant makers have been called on the carpet by the FDA for lacking quality control over their manufacturing or assembling processes. Orthopedic Alliance, which manufactures a total hip system and ceramic ball heads, and Spinal Solutions, which assembles and distributes spinal implant systems and instruments, both received warning letters following FDA inspections […]
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FDA Issues Warning Regarding Another Fake Counterfeit Cancer Medicine
The FDA is alerting healthcare professionals that another cancer drug, originating from a foreign source and purchased by U.S. medical practices, has been determined to be counterfeit. Medical practices that purchase and administer illegal and unapproved foreign medications are putting patients at risk of exposure to drugs that may be fake, contaminated, improperly stored and […]
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FDA Says More Fake Avastin Found in US
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said doctors and health-care facilities should be aware that it has seen more counterfeit Avastin, the injectable drug used to treat several forms of cancer. “Medical practices that purchase and administer illegal and unapproved foreign medications are putting patients at risk of exposure to drugs that may be fake, […]
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