MORE ON: drugmakers

Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Patient advocates, drugmakers fight ‘fail-first’ policies

July 18, 2012, 12:05 AM
Cynthia Toussaint is a passionate advocate for pain patients and the face of a small nonprofit – For Grace – that is sponsoring a bill in the California Legislature that would limit health insurers' ability to steer patients to low-cost or generic medicines before approving stronger... + read more
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Mental health panel has ties to drugmakers

March 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
The majority of the scientific panel revising the U.S. manual for mental health diagnoses have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, according to a new analysis. Based on a review of the panelists’ financial disclosures, 69 percent of the working group had current or past... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

State court to examine ‘pay-for-delay’ deals by drugmakers

March 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
California is the first state to examine whether pharmaceutical companies can pay competitors to not make or sell cheaper generic versions of their prescription drugs. The California Supreme Court last month agreed to review a 10-year-old class-action lawsuit involving the antibiotic... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Calif. drugmaker's HIV prevention pill draws concern

January 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
Foster City drugmaker Gilead recently updated its application with the federal Food and Drug Administration for approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill.  If the FDA approves Truvada for preventive use, it “would be the first agent indicated... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Lawsuit: Drugmaker gave 'lavish gifts' to 'high-prescribing' doctors

March 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones broke new legal ground last week by relying on an obscure section of the state insurance code to go after a big pharmaceutical company for wooing doctors with cognac, cigars and golf outings to prescribe its drugs. Jones, an attorney who worked for Janet Reno... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Series explores drugmaker payments to doctors

December 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
Medications save lives and bring comfort to the sick. But they’re also a big business. The nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica has been pulling back the curtain on pharmaceutical giants that lavish money on physicians who promote their products. ProPublica data guru Dan Nguyen... + read more
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