by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 18, 2016 | FDA
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a record low of enforcement letters to big pharma companies in 2015. Are pharmaceutical companies finally following the rules? Or is the FDA playing it fast and loose with regulating big pharma marketing practices? What...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 15, 2016 | Prescription Drugs
A study published this month in BMJ (previously known as the British Medical Journal) found that wasted cancer drugs will cost an estimated $3 billion this year. The study’s researchers say that wasted drugs are the result of improperly sized doses of cancer drugs....
by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 10, 2016 | Big Pharma Business
We already know that big pharmaceutical companies inflate their drug prices, but we tend to overlook the human costs to those practices. In developing countries, the high cost of pneumonia vaccines can be weighed against the lives of the children who need them. In the...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 9, 2016 | Big Pharma Business
A tax watchdog organization, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), recently released a report charging New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer with $35 billion in tax dodging via its upcoming merger with Allergan. Pfizer is expected to move its headquarters to...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 4, 2016 | Big Pharma Business
Does our current healthcare system engender corruption in big pharma? A recent Forbes article says yes. A Parade of Big Pharma Corruption Here are some recent examples of big pharma’s bad behavior: The offices of Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis in South...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Mar 1, 2016 | Big Pharma Lawsuits
Earlier this month, a Missouri jury awarded $72 million in a civil lawsuit brought against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson. Jackie Fox, 62, died in October of last year of ovarian cancer. Fox’s family claims that regular use of Johnson’s Baby Powder played...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Feb 26, 2016 | Prescription Drugs
It’s a challenge to find a neutral source of information about prescription drug prices. Articles range from thinly veiled PR attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to economic mumbo-jumbo to ideological agendas written by political publications. So who has the...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Feb 24, 2016 | Consumer Healthcare
Earlier this month, New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc announced it was voluntarily recalling some batches of Advil Pediatric Drops and Children’s Advil Oral Suspension products in Canada. The recall affects certain lots of the over-the-counter pain...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Feb 18, 2016 | Prescription Drugs
Chantix, a prescription smoking-cessation medication, has no significant impact on whether people succeed in quitting smoking or not, says a study from UC San Diego. The research paper said that although Chantix has displaced some older tobacco addiction drugs, after...
by Mooslet Writing Services | Feb 17, 2016 | Big Pharma Business
They all want in on the act. Whether their reasons are humanitarian or financial (or both), pharmaceutical companies and research universities around the world are racing to create a vaccine for the Zika virus. Why such a flurry of interest in creating a Zika virus...
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