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Medco Will Pay $7.9 Million to Resolve Kickback Allegations Related To…
Medco Health Solutions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Company,…
FDA OPDP Issues Fifth Letter of Caution for the Year, Cites Oak…
Almost like clockwork, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) has released its…
Update on the Medical Device Tax Repeal Efforts
The Medical Device Tax, instituted as part of the Affordable Care Act, is a tax of 2.3 percent on the sale price of medical device…
District Court Dismisses Chicago’s Painkiller Marketing Lawsuit…
District Court Judge Jorge Alonso of the Northern District of Illinois recently dismissed the City of Chicago’s lawsuit…
Amarin v. FDA and Public Meeting On Off-Label Promotion Signal An Important…
2015 could prove to be a significant year for how the Food and Drug Administration approaches drug companies’ off-label speech.…
Owner Of Durable Medical Supply Company Sentenced to 6 ½ Years In Prison
Last week, the owner of a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison for her role in…
FDA Announces Consent Decree with Medtronic Over Alleged Quality…
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the filing of a consent decree with Medtronic and two…
Health Diagnostics Lab Settles With DOJ; Enters Corporate Integrity…
The Department of Justice has announced the official settlement with Health Diagnostics Laboratory Inc. (HDL), of Richmond,…
GlaxoSmithKline Plans Adjustments To Its Sales Incentive Program
GlaxoSmithKline’s 2012 Corporate Integrity Agreement made mandatory the company’s “Patient First” program (or a…
Doctor’s Article Counters The “Myths That Undermine Medical…
Thomas Stossel, American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a visiting scholar at the American…