Guest guest Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 These stories certainly don't inspire confidence in a doctor's recommendations for use of Lupron...given that Lupron is prescribed off-label for *shrinking* fibroids quite often...one has to wonder where that great idea came from and why... ************************************** TAP officials on trial today in fraud case By Alice Dembner, Globe Staff | April 20, 2004 In a case that challenges longstanding marketing tactics of the drug industry, eleven current and former officials of TAP Pharmaceutical Products go on trial today for allegedly defrauding the government of millions of dollars by bribing doctors and hospitals to buy and prescribe the company's product instead of a less expensive rival drug. Although the Illinois company already paid a record $885 million federal fine to settle similar charges, the new trial targets individual managers at the company and broadens the list of doctors and hospitals that were allegedly involved. read the rest here: http://main.pslgroup.com/news/industrynews.nsf/FWStoriesFrameSet?OpenForm&id=8B5\ 1229384E663D585256A7D0013C040&newsid=CD519B438A49417085256E7C00435134&ref=&u=htt\ p://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/20/tap_officials_on_trial_today_\ in_fraud_case/ **************************** TAP Pharmaceutical Tried for Conspiracy By THEO EMERY Associated Press Writer April 20, 2004, 3:41 PM EDT BOSTON -- A federal prosecutor said executives and sales managers from TAP Pharmaceutical Products conspired to boost drug sales with kickbacks, lavish junkets and bribes to doctors, hospitals and other customers. Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of 11 current and former employees of Lake Forest, Ill.-based TAP who are charged with trying to induce doctors to prescribe Lupron, the company's prostate cancer drug, as well as Prevacid, its heartburn drug. read the rest here: http://main.pslgroup.com/news/industrynews.nsf/FWStoriesFrameSet?OpenForm&id=8B5\ 1229384E663D585256A7D0013C040&newsid=CD519B438A49417085256E7C00435134&ref=&u=htt\ p://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pharmaceutical-freebies,0,2\ 909375.story?coll=sns-ap-business-headlines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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