Pfizer To Pay $2.3 Billion In Biggest Fine Ever For Deceitful Drug Marketing

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Tisk tisk. I guess its time for Pfizer to make a miracle vaccine, isn't it, and get gullible lawmakers to mandate it for them.

Pfizer To Pay $2.3 Billion In Biggest Fine Ever For Deceitful Drug Marketing (PFE)
Erin Geiger Smith|Sep. 3, 2009

There is not always truth in advertising, but when you really lie, you really pay - especially if you happen to be an enormous drug company.

In the largest settlement ever for wrongful drug marketing, Pfizer agreed to pay a total of $2.3 billion in fines for promoting medicines for unapproved uses and will plead guilty to illegally marketing the painkiller Bextra, The Wall Street Journal reported. The settlement resolves charges raised by the Justice and Health and Human Services departments. (Bextra was pulled from the market in 2005.)

Pfizer apparently encouraged doctors to prescribe four medicines to treat symptoms the drugs were not FDA approved to treat. The settlement also resolves allegations that Pfizer induced doctors to promote these "off-label" uses by paying for their meals and subsidizing their travel.

...more at the link
http://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-to-pay-23-billion-in-biggest-fine-every-for-deceitful-advertising-2009-9

[Orrex]

1. Wait a minute--I thought that the FDA was an impotent puppet of Big Pharma?

Now you're telling me that the FDA did something good?

These mixed messages are so confusing!

[trotsky]

3. Go Democrats!

;-)

[Why Syzygy]

5. FDA? What's the FDA have to do with it?

The settlement resolves charges raised by the Justice and Health and Human Services departments.

:dunce:

[Orrex]

6. :dolt:

Pfizer apparently encouraged doctors to prescribe four medicines to treat symptoms the drugs were not FDA approved to treat.

If, as is endlessly alleged in this fine forum, the FDA is in the pocket of Big Pharma, surely that well-bought agency would be eager to approve drugs for whatever use Pfizer had in mind.

[Why Syzygy]

7. oh dear.

I thought you wanted to be taken seriously.

[cutlassmama]

2. Lovely. Another drug I used to take...n/t

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