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Publication type: news

Loftus P
DOJ conducts criminal probe of Pfizer unit's drug marketing
Market Watch 2010 Feb 26
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doj-conducts-criminal-probe-of-pfizer-units-drug-marketing-2010-02-26


Full text:

Federal prosecutors in Oklahoma are conducting a criminal investigation of a Pfizer Inc. unit’s promotional practices for organ-transplant drug Rapamune, the drug maker disclosed Friday.

New York-based Pfizer said in a regulatory filing the U.S. Attorney’s office for the western district of Oklahoma was conducting the probe. There were no further details in the regulatory filing; a Pfizer spokesman declined immediate comment.

Officials at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oklahoma City couldn’t immediately be reached.

Rapamune is an immunosuppressant used to prevent the body’s rejection of transplanted kidneys. Pfizer acquired the drug with its purchase of Wyeth last year.

Wyeth reported 2008 sales of $375.8 million for the drug; 2009 figures weren’t immediately available.

Pfizer shares declined 0.8% to $17.55.

 

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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