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Jul-16-06 Merck's top management team reportedly remains unphased by Vioxx litigation woes. In fact, Prudential Equity Group analyst, Timothy Anderson, says Merck's Chief Executive, Richard Clark, specifically told him that "Vioxx does not keep him up at night." According to Mr Anderson, "the company believes that lower court cases will be overturned on appeal, and... - Lawsuits - Only Weapon Available Against Giant Big Pharma Pushers
Jul-11-06 Over the past several years, new studies have shown the new generation of psychiatric drugs to be not only extremely dangerous but also ineffective, and the majority of these medications in fact now carry black box warnings about a number of life-threatening side effects associated with their use. The drugs include selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor... - Applera Corp. and Beckman Coulter Inc. patent Settlement
A legal dispute between Applera Corp. and Beckman Coulter Inc. involving Beckman Coulter patents and a breach-of-contract claim by Applera has been settled. Beckman Coulter claimed infringement to its DNA sequencer and thermal cycler products and Applera sued Beckman Coulter for rights in the diagnostics market to the Applera technology. To settle, Beck... - Bush's Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move
Jul-9-06 The tax dollar funded mental health screening programs popping up in every corner of the nation represent an enormous gift to Big Pharma from the Bush administration. After all, drug companies can't push drugs without a lucrative customer base, so the screening programs are a great solution for that little problem. On April 29, 2002, Bush kicked off th... - Pay-Per-Click advertising: E-Rip-Off?
Jun-30-06 Dave Johnson (not his real name) started using Yahoo's Overture about three years ago to advertise his spa equipment company and hopefully, draw traffic to his website. Everything ran smoothly for about six months but Johnson now likens his relationship with Overture as that of a drug addict - constantly needing a fix and paying out ever-increasing costs. ... - Fifth Third Bancorp. of Cincinnati security breach lawsuit dismissed
A lawsuit filed against Fifth Third Bancorp. of Cincinnati has been dismissed. The Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) filed the lawsuit hoping to recover $100,000 it spent on canceling and reissuing 235,000 Visa credit cards compromised in a security breach at BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., Mass., in 2004. PSECU claimed that Fifth Third was li... - Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod fraud Settlement
In 1997, Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod signed a promissory note during Central Garden & Pet Co.'s acquisition of pet-care publisher THF Publications, owned by the Axelrods. As well, Central claimed breach of warranty and fraud against the Axelrods. Central Garden & Pet Company is marketer and producer of branded products for the pet and lawn and garden sup... - Add Triaminic Vapor Patch To List Of Dangerous Patches
Jun-25-06 On June 19, 2006, Novartis Consumer Health issued a recall for the cough-suppressing Triaminic Vapor Patches in the US, about three weeks after Health Canada issued a warning after a Canadian child who chewed on a patch suffered a seizure. There have been eight adverse events with the patch, all involving ingestion, Navartis spokesperson, Julie Masow, tol... - Big Pharma Research Racket Is Killing People
Jun-23-06 Over the past six years, ten FDA approved drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to deaths and injuries, leading lawmakers to accuse the FDA of not doing its job in protecting the public from unsafe drugs and to call for measures of improvement. On June 20, 2006, the New York Times reported that "two influential senators are expected within weeks t... - Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal and Zyprexa For Off-Label Use
Jun-17-06 According to Kelly O'Meara, author of the newly released book, Psyched Out, America has a drug problem. "It's not as covert as those illicit and illegal "Just Say No" drugs," she says, "but, rather, Americans have become drug users by way of being diagnosed as suffering from one or a number of alleged mental disorders." "Sharing one's feelings with a doc... - Lawmakers Demand Answers about Ketek from FDA
Jun-14-06 The FDA has continued to cite a fraudulent study in information released to the public about the safety of the antibiotic Ketek. On January 20, 2006, the agency issued a Public Health Announcement, in response to an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, where researchers reported three cases of severe liver problems in patients taking Ketek. The ar... - Congressmen on War Path over FDA approval of Ketek
Jun-12-06 French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis has stopped enrolling pediatric patients in clinical trials for Ketek. On June 9, 2006, the drug maker said it halted tests on its own to ensure that trials of the drug complied with FDA requirements. The company denied that the studies were suspended because of safety concerns. However, the move jives with the recently in... - ACE Inhibitors should have been Banned for Pregnant Women
Jun-10-06 In a group of 209 babies born to women taking ACE inhibitors in the early stages of pregnancy, a recent study published in the June 8, 2006 New England Journal of Medicine, reported that 18 or 7.1% of the infants, were born with serious birth defects. Data for the study were obtained from the Tennessee Medicaid database for the years between 1985 and 2000... - Neurontin alleged suicide side effect. Send your complaint to a Neurontin lawyer.
Ever since Neurontin has been on the market, there have been reports of suicidal behavior and death in those taking the drug. Neurontin (generic name: gabapentin) has been approved by the FDA and prescribed by millions of physicians for two different ailments: controlling seizures and reducing pain caused by shingles. While the FDA and the drug company... - Ortho Evra Patch Maker Johnson & Johnson Waves A White Flag
Jun-3-06 On May 2, 2006, Johnson & Johnson attorney, Susan Sharko, wrote to New Jersey Superior Court Judge, Peter Bariso, to inform the court that the company had reached confidential settlements with 11 of the 12 plaintiffs involved in litigation in New Jersey. Less than a month earlier, on April 9, 2006, the New York Post reported that women who suffered life-t... - Nursing Home Industry - Breeding Ground for Whistleblowers
Jun-2-06 One of the most effective weapons the government has for unearthing fraud against Medicare and Medicaid in the nursing home industry is the False Claims Act. The fraud is so rampant in that industry that it should be officially designated as a breeding ground for whistleblowers. A provision in the FCA, called Qui Tam, allows persons with evidence of fraud... - Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry
Jun-1-06 Nowhere in the nursing home industry is the corruption, patient neglect and abuse and Medicare and Medicaid fraud more blatant than within the giant nursing home chain of Beverly Enterprises. Based in Fort Smith, it reportedly operates more than 400 nursing facilities, assisted living centers and hospices in 23 states and the District of Columbia. The cha... - WestJet Airlines Air Canada Internet Spying Settlement
Air Canada filed a lawsuit against its rival airline for allegedly spying on one of its internal Web sites. WestJet had logged on more than 240,000 times to an internal Web site that contained passenger load data. Under terms of the settlement, WestJet will pay Air Canada, a unit of ACE Holdings, $5.5 million to cover its legal and investigation costs a... - Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline Help Send Kids To Prison
May-29-06 In 2003, the pharmaceutical industry passed out $16.4 billion worth of free drug samples to doctors. These so-called free samples are literally killing people. Two young lads who were lucky enough to get free samples of Zoloft are now sitting in prison. After visits to their family doctors, Christopher Pittman and Zachary Schmidkunz were both sent home wi... - Wyoming State Museum Manager Wrongful Termination Settlement
Program manager at the Wyoming State Museum, Marie Wilson-McKee claimed that her supervisors retaliated against her because she opposed giving back community artifacts that had been given to the museum. She was forced to resign in 2004 after being reassigned to a lower paying job that involved no work. Wilson-McKee filed a wrongful termination lawsuit a...