BERLIN — Warner Home Video Germany has picked up domestic home entertainment rights to “Side Effects” (“Contergan — Eine einzige Tablette”), the controversial TV movie that became the subject of a lengthy court battle.The two-parter, produced by Cologne-based Zeitsprung Entertainment and WDR for pubcaster ARD, will be released as a double DVD on Nov. 9 [...]
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A DRUG company accused of marketing sleeping pills to children has topped a list of multinationals found to have abused consumer rights.
Advocacy organisations from 115 countries will be told today that the US branch of Japan’s largest drug company, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, has been judged most unethical at the Consumers International World Congress in Sydney.
Also singled [...]
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30 October 2007
Posted to the web 30 October 2007
Refusing to take responsibility for the lives lost, Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company in the centre of a clinical test scandal, yesterday said that the report indicting them was unconstitutional as it obtained all necessary approvals from relevant federal and state government agencies in Nigeria.
A Federal High Court [...]
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By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter
The country’s corporate watchdog said Thursday that it has imposed a combined 19.9 billion won ($22 million) in fines on 10 local pharmaceutical companies for unfair trading practices, including the provision of illegal rebates to hospitals and wholesalers.
The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said that it also plans to refer five out of [...]
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By W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE — A national steroid scandal that has led to federal and state raids on pharmaceutical distribution companies in New Jersey and Florida touched down in Rhode Island yesterday as two elderly doctors were sentenced for prescribing thousands of doses of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
The sentencing of [...]
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Jenny Lee, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, November 03, 2007
Victoria’s Dr. Abram Hoffer, 89, has won the inaugural Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine for his work using nutrition and vitamins to treat disease.
The $250,000 award, [...]
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