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Publication type: news

Truman C
GlaxoSmithKline fined $5.8 million for deceptive marketing in Ky.
The Lexington Herald-Leader 2010 Jan 29
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/1115549.html


Full text:

Franklin Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden has awarded Kentucky more than $5.8 million in civil penalties in its case against GlaxoSmithKline for deceptive or false marketing of drugs including the anti-nausea drugs Kytril and Zofran.
The award was announced by state Attorney General Jack Conway and was the second in two days against a major pharmaceutical company. On Wednesday, Conway announced that Crittenden had awarded $5.3 million in civil penalties against AstraZeneca for violating Kentucky’s Consumer Protection Act.
On Nov. 13, a Franklin Circuit Court jury handed down a $661,860 verdict against Glaxo.
Mary Ann Rhyne, a spokeswoman for Glaxo, said the company “is disappointed because we believe the result is disproportionate to what the jury found, and we’re considering our options including an appeal.”
The state attorney general’s office has filed suit against 47 pharmaceutical companies alleging violations of Kentucky’s Medicaid Fraud and Consumer Protection statutes, and false and deceptive advertising.
Glaxo, Novartis and AstraZeneca were sued by Alabama based on claims that their actions resulted in the state paying too much for drugs. Judgments against the companies were overturned by the Alabama Supreme Court in 2009 when the court ruled the companies did not defraud the state in pricing Medicaid prescription drugs.

 

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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