Pharma marketing got another black eye yesterday when the Department of Justice announced a $600 million settlement with Allergan. The drugmaker agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $375 million fine and $225 million in civil penalties, all for pushing Botox for off-label uses such as headache, pain and cerebral palsy treatment.

It's far from the biggest off-label marketing settlement we've seen; Pfizer owns that crown with its $2.3 billion deal to resolve charges that it mismarketed the now-withdrawn pain killer Bextra and several other drugs. Eli Lilly's Zyprexa settlement, at $1.41 billion, also outranks the Allergan deal. But the Botox settlement beats out AstraZeneca's $520 million resolution to Seroquel mismarketing claims.

Merck KGaA announced today that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved Cladribine Tablets for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). Cladribine Tablets will be registered in Australia under the trade name Movectro®.

"Approval of Cladribine Tablets in Australia is another step forward in our commitment to fight the devastating disease of multiple sclerosis by providing new therapeutic options meeting unmet needs," said Elmar Schnee, Member of the Executive Board and Head of the Merck Serono division.

I had the privilege of styling this amazing man who I now can call my friend. It happened on a gorgeous Sunday, and not one thing went wrong..

Buy Viagra Now

Viagra Girl ...

Everyone knows that the structure of the body and personal areas of each individual lady, but people over the years have made examples of ideals or standards, which must be equal to all. 

Boehringer Ingelheim celebrated the inauguration of its new "Center of Competence" (CoC) in Shanghai. As part of the company's EUR 100 million expansion project in China, the CoC entails an investment of EUR 10 million and will specialise in optimising active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and chemical intermediates procured in China. So far, more than 20 highly-qualified organic and analytical chemists have been recruited for the CoC.

"This reinforces our company's determination and commitment to continue investing in China," said Prof. Wolfram Carius, Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Boehringer Ingelheim and responsible for the Board Division Human Resources and Operations. "We attach great importance to the exchange with our Chinese partners. We have a long-term commitment to this market and we are driving innovation in the country's pharmaceutical industry."

Three years ago, the claims court chose several lawsuits to test various theories that were floated in about 5,000 cases alleging a link to autism and filed under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The case at hand involved Michelle Cedillo, who was born in August 1994, vaccined with the MMR vaccine in December 1995 and, subsequently, experienced various reactions before being diagnosed with autism in July 1997. Her parents claimed thimerosal damaged her immune system.

And this problem can be managed completely through choosing the right food.

To be specific, a new state law requires pharmacies to provide the same discounts to Medicaid and other state programs that are offered to consumers. However, the AG charges Rite Aid instead simply increased prices and made other changes to its Rx Savings discount drug program in the state. And then the pharmacy chain posted signs blaming its higher prices and program changes on the new law.

I have a surefire solution to get it back. You won’t hear this anywhere else.

Dear Health Conscious Reader,
In test after test, the results are on a level I’ve never seen before.
I really think this could help you.
One study said, “intercourse frequency doubled.”1 That’s a fancy way of saying the guys had twice as much sex.
In another study, by taking it for just two months, men’s sexual ability increased up to 80%. After the third month, 92.5% of the men maintained normal erections.2

I like those numbers.

If you were expecting the movie "Love and Other Drugs" to be a hard-hitting expose of pharmaceutical sales tactics as was the book it's loosely based on -- ie, "Hard Sell," by Jamie Reidy (see review here; use code 'JAMIE' to get it FREE! -- then you are in for a surprise. The trailer (see below) exposes that this is just another "love story" that happens to feature pharmaceutical sales reps and their shenanigans.

"[Anne] Hathaway portrays Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won’t let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie ([Jake] Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie’s evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love."

The "ultimate drug" may be "love," but the movie seems to focus on how great a drug Viagra is!