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Drug Companies Pushing Up Prices In Patent-Ending Panic
Get it while you can, big drug companies! Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca and Bristol Meyers Squibb are feeling a little panicky as the deadlines loom on patents for some of their best-selling drugs, so what do they do? Up the prices now, before those pesky generic versions arrive to drive consumer costs down. More »

Effient: FDA May Approve Blood Thinner That Causes Internal Bleeding

—>The Food and Drug Administration may be on the verge of approving an ELil Lilly blood thinner a consumer group says causes internal bleeding.  More »

A Bristol Meyers Squibb executive was indicted for making a secret deal with a Canadian drug manufacturer that they wouldn't make a generic version of Apotex, a competing drug to Plavix, if the Canucks didn't make a generic version of Plavix. Under federal law, such anti-competitive agreements need to be submitted to the FTC. [NYT]  More »