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Prosecutors...asked a Virginia federal judge to fine two foreign medical companies that pled guilty to shipping misbranded drugs into the U.S. at the high-end of a roughly $25 million to $50 million sentencing guideline, plus forfeiture...SB Medical Inc. and TC Medical Group...illegally circumventing Food and Drug Administration regulations by smuggling misbranded prescription drugs and devices into the country and selling them to U.S. doctors...

National Anticorruption Directorate …investigation on deals between Romanian doctors and drug companies for cancer drug prescriptions might target 11 of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the local market…. anticorruption prosecutors….targeting... arrangements between doctors and pharma companies.

1. Roche
2. Actavis
3. Pfizer
4. Teva
5. Novartis
6. Alvogen
7. Sandoz
8. Glaxosmithkline
9. Egis
10. Romastru Trading
11. Glenmark

California State Board of Pharmacy has suspended the license of a pharmacy technician who was revealed to have stolen the protected health information of approximately 100 patients....data theft was uncovered during a Secret Service raid at the apartment of Nicole Yvonne Flores...

lack of effective communications between the Drug Enforcement Agency and both pharmaceutical distributors and chain pharmacy headquarters has impacted legitimate access to pain medicines, according to a report released by…Government Accountability Office…Both distributors and retail pharmacies still request improved guidance and a greater degree of interaction with the DEA, though the agency does not concur,…

Chinese police are investigating if two distillers…added…Viagra to their liquor in the latest food-safety scare in China… Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration said that it found the Guikun Alcohol Plant and the Deshun Alcohol Plant in Guangxi’s Liuzhou city were putting Sildenafil, …into three of their baijiu products.

William J. O’Brien.. and Angela Rongione..charged …with running a "pill mill" from O’Brien’s medical offices… charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances…26 counts of illegally distributing oxycodone,…outside …professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose...

GlaxoSmithKline,..was fined a record $483 million for corruption in China last year and … new allegations of bribery… paid Romanian doctors hundreds, and in one cases thousands, of euros between 2009 and 2012 for prescribing its medicines,…U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission,... are investigating GSK for possible breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Pennsylvania hospital employee has been indicted on charges he performed flawed genetic tests on 124 late-stage cancer patients and then lied about it...Federal prosecutors...said ,,that 60-year-old Floyd Benko,...has been charged with health care fraud and making false statements.

Police are looking for a robbery suspect who was wearing a ninja mask and armed with a sword when he demanded cash from a clerk at a Walgreens pharmacy in Placentia, California....the masked suspect had a martial arts-type sword and took off with about $200. The suspect was seen wearing a leather jacket, shirt, jeans and gloves, all of which were black.....

online prescription drug seller has agreed to forfeit $450,000 in illegal sales after knowingly dispensing medication without a prescription… Aracoma Drug Company of West Virginia, received electronic, invalid prescriptions…issued from questionnaires completed over the Internet and not after a physician’s examination as required by law….