Tag: pharmaceutical industry

Gordon Findlay Novo Nordisk executive collapses during White House roll out of cheaper obesity drugs as company declines to comment on incident.  Maybe the drugs don’t work after all…? A guest at the Oval Office collapsed at a press event...

Tennessee physician, Dr Darrel Rinehart pleads guilty to prescribing drugs without medical necessity. Dollars for doctors. A complicit system of kickbacks.  A Tennessee physician who had five patients fatally overdose in less than the span of a year on Monday...

Nirmal Mulye, Nostrum Laboratories pharmaceutical CEO defends 400% price hike of antibiotic nitrofurantoin from $500 to $2400 as a morally correct one for shareholders. A major pharmaceutical executive has raised eyebrows after defending his company’s recent 400 percent price...

What led to Dr Regan Nichols an Oklahoma doctor prescribing more than 1800 opiod pills to five patients that didn't even need them, leading to their deaths?  Dr Regan Nichols a 57 year old Oklahoma doctor has been charged with murder...

Prince Percocet painkillers. Is Prince's death one of many as the mortality rate attributable to the use of prescription drugs skyrockets? Sources have revealed Prince overdosing on Percocet, a powerful painkiller in the days before his death. The claim has...

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has pled the fifth in his appearance before congress today after being called to account for a massive 5000% price gouging on lifesaving medication Daraprim recently acquired by the former Turing Pharaceuticals CEO. Appearing before...

Re entering the tabloid sweepstakes is the disparaging visage of infamous drug CEO, Martin Shkreli who was arrested Thursday morning on charges of security fraud after being found to be running a Ponzi scheme in order to service outstanding...