cbs Mega-bucks flow from drug cos. to doctors (CBS News) A dozen pharmaceutical companies have given doctors and other healthcare providers more than $760 million over the past two years - and those companies' sales comprise 40 percent of the U.S. market. The numbers come from the non-profit journalism organization Pro Publica, which assembled and continues to update a database on the payments. fentanyl Dec 2016 "BOSTON – Several pharmaceutical executives and managers, formerly employed by Insys Therapeutics, Inc., were arrested today on charges that they led a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud healthcare insurers." jj Johnson and Johnson fined for bribing doctors. nigeria Pfizer gets dirty in Nigeria.

relationship New England Journal of Medicine Most physicians (94%) reported some type of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, and most of these relationships involved receiving food in the workplace (83%) or receiving drug samples (78%). More than one third of the respondents (35%) received reimbursement for costs associated with professional meetings or continuing medical education, and more than one quarter (28%) received payments for consulting, giving lectures, or enrolling patients in trials. Cardiologists were more than twice as likely as family practitioners to receive payments. Family practitioners met more frequently with industry representatives than did physicians in other specialties, and physicians in solo, two-person, or group practices met more frequently with industry representatives than did physicians practicing in hospitals and clinics. sex Doctors bribed by big pharma with hookers. prices Pfizer CEO gets 61% pay raise—to $27.9 million—as drug prices continue to climb In a recent three-week span, the company hiked 116 drug prices as much as 9.46 percent. BETH MOLE - 3/16/2018, 11:45 AM