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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: pharmaceutical companies

pharmaceutical companies stories: 66 news summaries

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Psych Drugs Drove Kid Crazy

Careless prescriptions turned shy chess nerd into into belligerent hulk

May 18, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The careless prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, often by psychiatrists who draw pay checks from the companies who make them, has drawn attention in the New York Times recently. Now Ann Bauer, writing in Salon, draws an intimate portrait of the effects of such carelessness on one autistic teenager, who turned... More »

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Big Pharma Loses Generic
Drug Fight

Deal for developing nations first blow by Dems in Congress

May 17, 07 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress and the White House have agreed to give developing nations more access to affordable generic drugs by easing some patent enforcement rules. Tucked into a broader trade agreement passed last week, the provision is the first blow to American pharmaceutical companies since the Democrats won control of Congress, the ... More »

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medicine • health care • health • drugs • pharmaceutical companies • Medicare • pharma • prescription drugs

OxyContin Maker Pleads Guilty

Manufacturer, execs admit misleading public about risky painkiller

May 10, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The company that makes OxyContin pleaded guilty today to misleading the public about the effects of the potent painkiller. Purdue Pharma and three executives will pay $634.5 million in civil and criminal fines. Federal prosecutors accused the firm of "misbranding" the drug, marketing it as a less addictive... More »

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medicine • health • crime • OxyContin • pharmaceutical companies • Purdue Pharma • prescription drugs • lawsuit

Doctors Paid Millions To Use Anemia Drugs

Among the world's top-selling medicines, the FDA now says they
may be unsafe

May 9, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors are paid millions of dollars by drug companies to give their patients anemia medicine which regulators now say may be dangerous. Spurred by competiton between several similar drugs, companies reward doctors with rebates, which allow them to make a significant profit, the New York Times reports. More »

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medicine • FDA • health • pharmaceutical companies • Medicare • Anemia • drug companies • safety • doctor • Johnson and Johnson • Amgen

Pharmaceutical Farming Generates Hopes and Fears

Benefits weighed against risk of food-supply contamination

Apr 30, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The battle over genetic modification has a new player: "pharming," or pharmaceutical farming, which uses genetically modified plants to mass-produce drug compounds relatively inexpensively. By altering common plants—for instance, tobacco, which can be engineered to produce an HIV drug—researchers say pharming could transform the treatment of... More »

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medicine • food • health • genetics • pharming • pharmaceutical companies • genetically modified crops • plants

Vaccine May
Not Prevent
Cervical Cancer

Mandated for all girls
in some states, HPV vaccine fails to deliver 

Apr 16, 07 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pharma behemoth Merck is defending what it touted as a miracle cervical-cancer vaccine against charges of ineffectiveness. Merck lobbied states to mandate Gardasil for young girls—Texas and Virginia did—and got a glowing endorsement from the CDC. But new studies show that it works only to prevent sexually-transmitted HPV,... More »

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cancer • health • cancer vaccine • Merck • HPV • cervical cancer • Gardasil • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • pharmaceutical companies • pharma • vaccine • STD

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