I will once more mention a potential change of paradigms here with educating the public. Each patient who took the drug is unique. Do we have any information on other drugs they were taking at the same time? Groups will continue to advise against the use until the full facts are known...
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on 10-31-2008
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I wonder if all the name brand companies will one day have nothing but generics? (grin). There’s always this interesting topic too, biosimilars. “Because biosimilars aren't exact duplicates of the original drugs, they don't violate the original drug's patent , enabling legal distribution...
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on 10-16-2008
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Whistle blower case where Pharma Sales representative created an investigation and settlement. Whistle blowers can and do receive portions of settlements, and in this case there was $46 million. The uses marketed by Cephalon were not approved by the FDA. Doctors can prescribe...
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on 09-29-2008
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The meaning of advantage is below. Who knows what might be uncovered next as this may or may not be just a Merck issue, but as documents and other items of years past surface, this is what we have, sell, sell, sell, and it's perhaps not unlikely that some of these items and issues could exist...
From another standpoint...more paper to throw away...right now I have a garbage can right next to my mail box to get rid of all the other crap that I get...so this would just add more to the task...and kill of a few more trees...back to the other side of the coin, it is a law to fight marketing...and...
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on 05-28-2008
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