世界大藥廠行賄醜聞不斷(尤其中國大陸處罰?!)

[李誠民]

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Story at-a-glance
• In January 2010, Julie Gerberding, former director of the CDC, became the President of Merck’s vaccine unit. Gerberding has admitted her “bullish” stance on vaccines, and has a long history of disregard for vaccine safety
• January 2011, Elias Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—one of the world’s foremost medical research centers, and an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services—became the President of Sanofi-Aventis’ research labs. Under his lead, the NIH became embroiled in scandal when it became apparent that the agency allowed its employees to have conflicts of interest and financial ties to industry http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... ities.aspx
• A former senior manager for Eli Lilly in China alleges bribes of $4.9 million were given out from 2011 to 2012 to ‘persuade’ doctors to prescribe Eli Lilly products
• Chinese authorities are investigating drug company Sanofi following allegations that more than 500 doctors were bribed to prescribe their medications
• Another Chinese whistleblower claimed that Novartis ordered her to bribe doctors in order to increase sales of their cancer drug
• Allegations have been made in China that GlaxoSmithKline also paid kickbacks to doctors, hospitals and government officials, using travel agencies as middlemen to carry out the illegal acts
• China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is also currently investigating 60 foreign and domestic drug companies over potentially illegal pricing practices

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• Purdue Pharma, the makers of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, is now doing clinical tests to get the drug approved for kids as young as 6-years old. Such pain killers have now been shown to be the primary gateway drug of choice, beating out marijuana, smoking and alcohol, and the consequences are far deadlier.
• On July 2, the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to three counts of criminal misdemeanor and other civil liabilities relating to the prescription drugs Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia, and agreed to pay a total of $3 billion in fines. The payment is the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history, and the largest fine ever paid by a drug company.
• TV and radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky (aka “Dr. Drew,” of sex-advice-giving fame) allegedly accepted $275,000 to illegally promote GSK's antidepressant Wellbutrin for sexual dysfunction
• According to a 2010 report by the Public Citizen's Health Research Group, just four companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, accounted for more than half of all financial penalties imposed against pharmaceutical companies over the past two decades • It has become abundantly clear that fines do NOT work. To dampen the rampant criminal behavior enveloping the drug industry, individuals responsible for and complicit with these criminal acts must face criminal charges

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• Drug company Amgen has agreed to pay $762 million in criminal penalties for illegally marketing its anemia drug Aranesp
• Drug maker Sanofi has also recently agreed to pay $109 million to resolve allegations that it gave free drugs to physicians as a form of kickbacks, which violates the False Claims Act
• Putting your health in the hands of these and other drug companies is a frightening prospect because the leading pharmaceutical companies are also among the largest corporate criminals in the world, which have shown time and again, they consistently put profits above human health … and this includes your health
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