corner
Healthy Skepticism
Join us to help reduce harm from misleading health information.
Increase font size   Decrease font size   Print-friendly view   Print
Register Log in

Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16858

Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.

 

Publication type: news

Former Johnson & Johnson exec charged in Britain
Business Week 2009 Dec 1
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9CAI8VG0.htm


Full text:

A former executive of a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary was on Tuesday charged with conspiracy to corrupt in connection with payments to Greek medical professionals, the Serious Fraud Office said.

Robert John Dougall, 44, former vice president for Market Development at DePuy International Ltd., was released on bail following an appearance in City of Westminster Magistrates Court.

“The allegation concerns the practice of making corrupt payments and /or giving other inducements to medical professionals working in the Greek public health care system in relation to the supply of orthopedic products between February 2002 and December 2005,” the Serious Fraud Office said.

The prosecuting agency gave no further details of the allegations.

Two years ago, Johnson & Johnson disclosed that foreign subsidiaries may have made improper payments related to the sale of medical devices.

The company, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, said it had voluntarily informed U.S. authorities about operations in “two small-market countries,” and said it was cooperating with investigators.

At that time, J&J also announced the immediate retirement of Michael J. Dormer, the corporate officer responsible for foreign subsidiaries.

Dormer was formerly president of DePuy International Ltd., a maker of spinal and joint reconstruction products which J&J acquired in 1998.

 

  Healthy Skepticism on RSS   Healthy Skepticism on Facebook   Healthy Skepticism on Twitter

Please
Click to Register

(read more)

then
Click to Log in
for free access to more features of this website.

Forgot your username or password?

You are invited to
apply for membership
of Healthy Skepticism,
if you support our aims.

Pay a subscription

Support our work with a donation

Buy Healthy Skepticism T Shirts


If there is something you don't like, please tell us. If you like our work, please tell others.

Email a Friend








Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909