[Huffington Post] Now that two nurses treating Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan have themselves been diagnosed with the disease, it is time to ask: Do doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals have a duty to treat patients? What of the unsung healthcare “workers” — hazmat teams, EMTs, transporters who wheel stretchers, lab techs who test […]
[The Wall Street Journal] SAN DIEGO—Kendall French used to pitch drugs to doctors who could prescribe them. But many of those doctors now work for hospitals that don’t give them final say over what is on the menu of medicines they can pick. So when the GlaxoSmithKline PLC saleswoman began plugging two new lung-disease drugs […]
[Fox News] The U.S. corporate tax code has come under far more scrutiny than Pfizer in the wake of the giant drug maker’s announcement last week that it hopes to avoid billions of dollars in federal taxes by moving its legal address to London. “The quotes we’ve seen from the politicians so far don’t in […]
[Bloomberg] — A unit of Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharma will pay the U.S. government $7.3 million to resolve claims it illegally marketed its antifungal drug Mycamine for children before that use was approved. The U.S. Department of Justice says Astellas’ illegal marketing took place between 2005 and 2010. Mycamine was approved for use in adults […]
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