Thursday 3 September 2009

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer guilty

US drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to pay $2.3bn (£1.4bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice. It follows the firm being found to have illegally promoted four drugs as treatments for conditions different to those which regulators had approved. Continue Reading...

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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed against it by Nigerian parents who claim the company caused harm to their children by using them as guinea pigs in a nonconsensual, unlicensed drug trial. The case began in 1996, when Pfizer needed a human trial to gain approval for its new antibiotic Trovan. Continue Reading...

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