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Eli Lilly…was cleared of liability in the first trial involving claims that its antidepressant Cymbalta caused severe withdrawal symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and electric shock-like sensations,…Eli Lilly has been sued by roughly 250 plaintiffs who say that the company downplayed warnings about symptoms that can occur when patients quit the popular drug, which has annual sales of about $3.9 billion.

CVS Health Corp. deliberately overcharged some pharmacy customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices, according to a lawsuit...seeks class-action status,... unspecified damages.

New York State Attorney General…announced that a Walgreens-owned pharmacy (Trinity Homecare) must repay $22.4 million to the state’s Medicaid program for filing false billings...

federal government could save anywhere between $15.2 billion and $16 billion annually if it negotiated Medicare Part D prescription prices with drug makers, … the high levels of deductibles and out-of-pocket copayments are the main reason why so many Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions…federal government cannot directly negotiate rebates due to the non-interference clause,…but insurers can.

owner and operator (Rouzbeh Javaherian) of a Los Angeles pharmacy was sentenced...to 18 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.... In addition to imposing the prison term...ordered ..to pay $644,060 in restitution to Medicare.

Teva… linked to the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas, has agreed to buy Allergan … generic drugs business… will turn (Teva ) into one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms… In..2012, Teva… agreed to pay $285 million to settle…lawsuits arising from the hepatitis C outbreak tied to the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.. Teva and Baxter Healthcare…were found liable..

Eli Lilly failed…to persuade…federal court to dismiss a suit against it by a woman claiming that taking...Prozac during her pregnancy caused her son to be born with… Tetralogy of Fallot…

class action filed in Indiana federal court has accused Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. (electronic medical record services provider) of ignoring warning signs that its security systems were inadequate to prevent… data breach exposing medical information and other data on nearly 4 million Americans…had a duty to protect the sensitive information stored in its databases....

federal judge says…a clinic chief (Tonya Rushing) connected to the largest medical office hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada history will pay $50,000 in restitution to overbilled insurers and companies, not $2.2 million prosecutors sought… U.S. Attorney…the $50,000 was intended to be credited toward a final amount yet to be determined.

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...has ruled that Washington can require pharmacies to deliver medications such as Plan B even if owners have a religious objection.