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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Doctors bribed by glaxo in U S

Glaxo smithkline (GSK) one of the worlds largest healthcare and pharmaceuticals companies,admitted to promoting antidepressants PAXIL and WELLBUTRIN  for unapproved uses, including treatment of children and adolescents.
     The company also conceded charges that it held backdata and made unsupported safety claims over its diabetics  drug  AVANDIA.

In addition,GSK has been found guilty of paying kickbacks to doctors.

The sales team bribed physicians to prescribe GSK products using every imaginable form of high priced entertainments like hawaiian vacations  and paying doctors millions of dollors to go on speaking tours, tickets to madonna concerts .


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