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Pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline forced to pay record $3 billion fraud settlement
GlaxoSmithKline was socked with $3 billion in fines by US authorities Monday over charges it marketed drugs for unauthorized uses, held back safety data, and cheated the government’s Medicaid program. The Justice Department said GSK was fined over misbranding its drugs Paxil and Wellbutrin, and for holding back data while…
Man claims Glaxo drug made him ‘gay sex addict’
A French father-of-two is to take GlaxoSmithKline to court on Tuesday, alleging the British firm’s drug to treat Parkinson’s disease turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict. The 51-year-old’s lawyers say their client’s behaviour changed radically after he was first administered the drug in 2003 for the illness,…
Drug company used ghost writers to author work bylined by academics, documents show
According to newly released documents from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company often paid ghostwriters to pen medical studies, editorials and even a textbook that listed physicians as the authors. The documents—some of which date back to late 1990s—were recently unsealed in litigation over a GlaxoSmithKline product. We saw them after they…
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