- A drug company with a conscience? GlaxoSmithKline trying to save 1 million children’s lives (news.com.au)
Dr Bonadonna,…heads a partnership between GSK and Save the Children which aims to save the lives of one million children…Instead of simply donating money, the drug company is donating the expertise of its employees to create cheap and simple solutions to deadly third world problems…"It’s a philosophy that goes beyond volunteering and fundraising, it uses the skills of the company and its employees,"....
- International pharmaceutical groups involved in large corruption scandal in Romania (romania-insider.com)
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.
- Roche
- Actavis
- Pfizer
- Teva
- Novartis
- Alvogen
- Sandoz
- Glaxosmithkline
- Egis
- Romastru Trading
- Glenmark
- Amarin wins injunction against FDA in free speech case (fiercepharma.com)Amarin case could unleash a flood of off-label promos (fiercepharmamarketing.com)
Amarin won what was being called a First Amendment free speech victory for drugmakers. It got a federal court to say the FDA cannot bar Amarin from discussing off-label use of its fish-oil drug Vascepa for a wider group of patients than it is approved for…not clear how big a victory the ruling will be given it came in a lawsuit Amarin brought against the FDA as a defensive move.
- Exclusive: GSK faces new corruption allegations, this time in Romania (newsdaily.com)Romania investigates suspected drug company bribes (newsdaily.com)
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.
- India defers EU trade talks as ban on GVK-tested drugs rankles (fiercepharmamanufacturing.com)
GSK confirms it has chosen Bangalore (India)for its sixth production facility in the country,… state of Karnataka has approved a 50-acre tract...for the project, …The £85 million ($132.6 million) plant and warehouse, which is slated to be complete in 2017, is being built in anticipation of growth in sales for areas like gastroenterology and anti-inflammatory medicines.