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• How ethical is the 'ethical' industry

  Published: June 21, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Drug Research And Development, Insider Trading, Pfizer, Trovan, Pharmaceutical Industry

  the innovative ('ethical') pharmaceutical industry. After just a few hours on the net, searching for misdeed, I stumbled about incident after incident after incident. Here's a bullet point list of some of the stuff I found:Merck: VIOXX withheld information about health risks from patients and regulatorsPfizer: Trovan law suits by

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• Daiichi-Sankyo to Install Corning Epic System

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Technology, Corning, Epic System, Pharmaceutical Industry

  Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced that Daiichi-Sankyo Co. Ltd. purchased the Corning Epic System for installation and integration into drug discovery operations at its Kasai Research & Development Center in Tokyo. Daiichi-Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical innovator and Japan's second-largest drug maker.

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• IBM, TAGSYS Team on Serialization Pilot Kit for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

  Published: November 13, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Technology, Drugs, Ibm, Pharmaceutical Industry, Rfid Technology

  IBM and TAGSYS today unveiled an integrated offering to help pharmaceutical manufacturers rapidly pilot and use RFID technologies for item level serialization in their packaging operations. Serialization is the first step towards compliance with California's drug pedigree regulations and the basis for improved supply chain performance.

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• Drug industry spends too much on marketing

  Published: January 3, 2008, 7:32 am

  Tags: Health, Drug Industry, Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry

  In the late 1950s, the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, Chairman of the United States Senate's Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee, put together the first extensive indictment against the business workings of the pharmaceutical industry.

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• So You've Been Diagnosed With High Cholesterol ...

  Published: March 4, 2008, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Cholesterol, Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Heart Disease, Medicine

  it is all said and done, the pharmaceutical industry fraud over statin drugs and antidepressants may exceed the corruption of the Enron and subprime mortgage scandals combined. And this article may make you question every prescription your physician has written. The following video is from the Austin Wellness Center:Note: If you are currently

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• Postscript to a long-overdue legislation

  Published: May 11, 2008, 10:28 pm

  Tags: I Report Features, Public Health, Congress Watch, In The News, Affordable Medicines, Bicameral Conference Committee, Doha Declaration, Drug Price Regulatory Board, Generics Act, Pharmaceutical Industry, Philippines, Trips Agreement

  FINALLY, Congress ratified the bicameral conference committee-approved draft of the long-awaited law that promises to ensure access to affordable, quality medicines by majority of poor Filipinos. The legislative measure, called the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008, was even billed as a Labor Day gift to

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• No cure for costly medicines? Draft law affirms patent rights of drug firms

  Published: May 11, 2008, 1:08 pm

  Tags: I Report Features, Public Health, Congress Watch, In The News, Affordable Medicines, Bicameral Conference Committee, Doha Declaration, Generics Act, Intellectual Property Code, Patents, Pharmaceutical Industry, Philippines, Third World Network, Trips Agreement

  to face challenges from pharmaceutical companies in court, he says, are the draft law’s “watered-down version on the matter of international exhaustion of patent rights, weak early working or Bolar provision, and government-use provisions with TRIPS-plus features [high levels of intellectual property protection not found in the

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• Does St. John's Wort help ADHD?

  Published: June 17, 2008, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Adhd, Adhd Research, In The News, New Research, Health News, Bias, Child Psychiatrist, Clinical Trials, Dr Z, Dr Biederman, Dr Z S Medical Report, Ed Zimney, Health Blog, Healthtalk, Hyperforin, Hypericin, Hypericum Perforatum, Ineffective, Pharmaceutical Industry, St John

  Joseph Biederman, and the pharmaceutical industry. Since St. John's Wort is an herbal product, it could easily be argued that anyone with a vested interest in pharmaceutical drug products might have an inherent bias (either conscious or unconscious) against it, a bias that might influence the study results. And other recent headlines have

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• Big Pharma spent $3.6 Mil in lobbying the Federal Government..

  Published: June 21, 2008, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Daily Featured, Health Care, Big Pharma, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Pharmaceutical Industry

  The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, whose members include Pfizer, Amgen Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co., lobbied on how prices are set for seniors' medications, rules governing drug imports and other issues.

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• 5* Hotels and the Pharmaceutical Industry

  Published: June 22, 2008, 7:34 am

  Tags: Esplanade, Hilton, Swissotel, Steigenberger, Intercontinental, Corruption, Pharmaceutical Industry

  are kinda unacceptable. Pharmaceutical companies have, hence, become reluctant to book such venues in recent years. Clever hoteliers in Berlin have found a way to deal with this (and I am not joking!). 5* hotels like the Hilton, Steigenberger, Intercontinental, Swissotel, and the Esplanade are giving one of their stars back to keep the

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