The job of a regulatory agency is to define, for those under its regulation, what is permissible behavior and what is not. It is tasked with laying down the ground rules: corporations can play on its field but they have to play by its rules. If they don’t, they get fined or they lose their right to play.
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Pfizer, was charged with illegally marketing a drug that was not cleared for use by the FDA. A story in Reuters reports that Wyeth illegally marketed its organ transplant drug Rapamune for conditions it was not approved to treat.
The charges indicated that Wyeth trained and encouraged sales representatives to promote Rapamune for uses other than preventing rejection ...
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Many medical professionals are concerned about this week’s decision by the federal appeals court making it legal for pharmaceutical company representatives to market drugs for “off label” uses.
An ABC News report quotes Dr. Richard Deyo, a professor of family medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, as saying: “This risks taking us back to an era when people could promote snake oil without restrictions – a situation I would hate ...
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