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Omnicare and the federal government plan to settle a lawsuit accusing Omnicare of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories in exchange for pushing doctors to prescribe a certain drug to dementia patients,..

..former district manager for drugmaker Warner Chilcott has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with sales of osteoporosis medications Actonel and Atelvia.

Patients of a Detroit-area doctor received "stunning" doses of a powerful, expensive drug that exposed them to life-threatening infections,..as a judge heard details about a cancer specialist who fleeced insurance companies and harmed hundreds of people....

AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay the United States and participating states a total of $46.5 million,..to resolve allegations that it knowingly underpaid rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

Jeff Bradstreet … target.. of a search related to an experimental drug for autism….The compound, globulin component macrophage-activating factor,..(GcMAF),… authorities were seeking…“evidence of a crime and contraband, fruits of crime, or items illegally possessed” associated with violations of interstate commerce…products that are “adulterated or misbranded”…

12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges...

The cases of five children receiving improper medicine at a county-run clinic for the uninsured is being reviewed to see if the incidents are criminal,..."The matter is being reviewed by our office to determine if the conduct rises to the level of a crime," according to Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan.

Oklahoma’s highest criminal court...set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections.

FDA said…that more than 700 adverse reactions have been reported by the World Health Organization in Central Africa of patients who took medication that was marked diazepam but which lab testing showed contained instead the active ingredient, haloperidol,…

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong is being honored by D.A.R.E America and the Drug Enforcement Agency as the 2015 DEA/D.A.R.E Law Enforcement Executive of the Year. The award is given to a law enforcement officer who is committed to drug prevention and enforcement.