FDA fails to do their job....once again!

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Drug Company To Pay $3 Billion Settlement For Bogus Marketing

November 7, 2011 by Sam Rolley
Drug Company To Pay $3 Billion Settlement For Bogus Marketing

PHOTOS.COM
A drug company has agreed to pay a large settlement for its inappropriate marketing of several drugs.

A U.K. drug company has agreed to pay $3 billion to end U.S. criminal and civil investigations into whether it marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters.

The company, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, was being probed  for its sales and marketing practices for drugs including the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin, according to The Associated Press. The company was also facing questions about its development and marketing of a diabetes drug called Avandia, which has been withdrawn from the European market and limited in the United States because of increased heart attack risks.

An investigation was begun by the U.S. Attorney’s office of Colorado in 2004 and later taken over by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts into whether the company was promoting drugs for unapproved uses, and influencing doctors to prescribe them.

The Justice Department also launched investigations into possible inappropriate use of the nominal price exception under the Medicaid Rebate Program, according to The Washington Post.

The $3 billion settlement, which Glaxo says will be paid with its “cash resources,” will be the largest pharmaceutical marketing settlement in U.S. history.

http://www.personalliberty.com/news/drug-company-to-pay-3-billion-settlement-for-bogus-marketing/?eiid=&rmid=PRESPOLL2012_1_E3&rrid=243474047

FDA playing to big pharma companies......one would think that the FDA is in place to protect the public......but they are there for the bucks! Approving medicines that do more harm than good and deny small pharma's with track records of doing no harm..........FDA is nothing but a Knee-Jerk government org.............

[SufferedMoreThanJesus]

Sounds like Plaxo didn't pay their Hush Money to the FDA to me.

You get behind in your "Protection Payments" to the FDA and they'll be all over you like a Doberman on a negro, man.

[lucy]

You don't see vitamin companies having to pay billions of dollars for false advertising, that's for sure...

Take you vitamin D-3.

[SufferedMoreThanJesus]

I love the advertisements for pharmaceuticals on t.v. for headaches and at the end of the commercial for the contraindications they tell us "May cause anal leakage and/or death."

Pardon me.  I believe I'll tough it out with the headache if you don't mind.

[johnhp]

How is the fda involved in this?