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“This landmark settlement holds Janssen accountable for its actions and sends a message to all pharmaceutical companies that these practices will not be tolerated,” stated Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The problems with the mathematical models started when banks started offering mortgages without knowing a borrower’s assets or income. (These were called “NINjA” loans, as in “No Income? No Assets?
Here is a loan anyway.”) Models don’t generally run very well unless you have good data to plug into the model; therefore, analysts were forced to make what amounted to an educated guess as to the
chance that a NINjA loan would end in default. …
“This drug has the potential to finally open the door to acceptance of the idea that decreased desire can be something that involves a dysfunctional way the brain works, and not only a bad partner,”
said research Jim Pfaus
…
Since depression can be a terminal illness, why would you want to take a drug
that would actually increase your risk of killing yourself or someone else? …
Pharma will have to name names and specify dollar amounts, too. The law also
would ban nearly all gifts–including meals–for docs, nurses, pharmacists,
health plans and hospitals/clinics. …
They called for “the elimination or modification of common practices related to
small gifts, pharmaceutical samples, continuing medical education, funds for
physician travel, speakers bureaus, ghostwriting, and consulting and research
contracts.” …
Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) has previously criticized the NIH’s
enforcement of financial conflicts of interest. A 2008 report by the HHS Office
of the Inspector General stated that the NIH lacked oversight of conflict of
interests at grant-receiving institutions. …
“It is outrageous that doctors who are testing and, in many cases, recommending
the use of certain high-risk medical devices are being compensated with stock in
the very companies that make the devices. …