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...“Companies are seeing this litigation and this risk and are just starting to slow down,” he said....
...“We’re just looking for accountability for this particular product,” Shirian added. “No one is looking to take guns away from people. It’s very reminiscent of tobacco litigation....
...Federal funding and more robust federal action will be needed to re-educate doctors and pharmacists misled by drug company marketing and improve prescribing practices, to prevent the creation of new addicts...
...Cohen & Gresser has hired Jumana Rahman as partner in London to lead the law firm’s UK commercial litigation practice. She joins from Latham & Watkins....
...Cephalon, which also sold a fast-acting fentanyl product Actiq and had previously employed Burlakoff, settled investigations into its marketing practices in 2008 for $425m....
...The company stopped all marketing of OxyContin to doctors in February and fired a significant chunk of its sales staff....
...In late August, the US Food and Drug Administration took what it described as a “milestone action” of issuing a warning letter to the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, which manufactures the Natural American...
...Big tobacco’s emerging dominance in the market is “a natural progression”, explains Des Naughton, who is in charge of BAT’s next-generation products. “We understand smokers.”...
...launched privatisation and price reforms, adopting market economics in practice, if not name....
...By 2006, signs of strain were appearing: U.S. home sales had peaked in mid-2005, and home price appreciation had stopped....
...marketing and more than a little luck, soon propelled it into that elite group of products ever more desperately sought but rarely found by large drug companies: a “blockbuster”, generating sales in excess...
...But the greater prevalence of litigation has in turn hindered reasoned informed discussion by consumers and drugs companies of reasonable risks. is being avoided for fear of sparking re not havea deluge...
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