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A former drug company sales rep is facing up to five years in prison after being convicted of bribing New Jersey doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Michelle Breitenbach, 38, of Middletown, who worked for the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics Inc., pleaded guilty to the second degree charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, according to NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.

Herbal alternatives are under attack. Download and print flyers. The flyers urge consumers to tell their congressmen and senators to attend the JUNE 17th Herbal Alternatives Congressional Briefing to learn the truth about herbs & health. It is critical that Congress attends this briefing because: HERBAL ALTERNATIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK. News headlines misinform and mislead decision makers. Products you depend on for your health could soon be banned. MANY CAPITOL HILL STAFFERS AND POLICY MAKERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND NATURAL HEALTH INDUSTRY ISSUES. Since DSHEA was passed in 1994, about 50% of Congressmen and Senators and 80% of Congressional aides have...

Stealth Merger: Drug Companies and Government Medical Research Some of the National Institutes of Health's top scientists are also collecting paychecks and stock options from biomedical firms. Increasingly, such deals are kept secret. Case Studies JOHN I. GALLIN : A Clinic Chief's Desire to 'Learn About Industry' RONALD N. GERMAIN: A Federal Lab Leader Who Made $1.4 Million on the Side JEFFREY SCHLOM: A Cancer Expert Who Aided Studies Using a Drug Wanted by a Client RICHARD C. EASTMAN: A Federal Researcher Who Defended a Client's Lethal Drug JEFFREY M. TRENT: A Government Accolade From a Paid Consultant • What...

ADHD just 'bad behaviour': US expert Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) does not exist, an American psychologist has told a youth conference in Brisbane. Dr Jacobs says doctors and drug companies have turned behavioural problems into a disease, leading to many children being misdiagnosed and other problems being missed. Dr Jacobs says he is yet to see proof that ADHD is a disease. "That's the problem with this, is that people have put a label on different behaviours and said it's a disease," Dr Jacobs said. "There's no proof, no-one has ever presented any evidence of a condition called ADHD,...

Drugmaker May Have Concealed Info From Feds Posted on: 07/05/2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. - When officials at Warner-Lambert Co. discovered they had a potentially life altering diabetes drug in production, they were thrilled. However, new documents show that research quickly showed the drug, Rezulin, caused liver damage. Executives allegedly continued to promote the drug, which generated $2.1 billion in sales before being taken off the market three years after approval by officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug was removed from store shelves because many liver-related deaths were linked to its use. New documents show Warner-Lambert executives may...