Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced plans to sue Novartis over what he alleges are illegal practices. The scandal has been playing out for several years, with Novartis alleged to have paid Greek public officials and health care providers to increase prescriptions for the company’s drugs and maintain higher prices.
GlaxoSmithKline will change incentives for sales representatives in some countries as the British drugmaker looks to retain talent.
The college bribery scandal was brought to light by a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into a pharmaceutical pump-and-dump case.
Minnesota became the latest state to sue Insys Therapeutics Inc., accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing a powerful fentanyl-based pain medicine, while a former employee pleaded guilty in New Jersey over bribing doctors to prescribe the drug.
The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc. appeared in federal court in Boston to plead not guilty to charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug.
